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PostPosted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:41 pm    Post subject: (Abstract) Resistance training in women with MS... Reply with quote

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Scand J Clin Lab Invest. 2006;66(4):351-6.


Effect of resistance training on risk of coronary artery disease in women with multiple sclerosis

White LJ, McCoy SC, Castellano V, Ferguson MA, Hou W, Dressendorfer RH.

Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, Applied Human Physiology Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

The effects of a lower-extremity progressive resistance-training program (PRT) on risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) were determined in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Twelve ambulatory women with MS (47.3+/-4.7 years; Expanded Disability Status Score (EDSS), 4.00+/-1.37) completed twice weekly lower-body PRT for 8 weeks. Knee extensor and ankle flexor strength improved significantly (p<0.05) after training, and self-reported fatigue decreased (p<0.05). Serum triglyceride concentrations decreased (p<0.05) but body-weight and fatness, blood pressure, and serum glucose, total cholesterol and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol were unchanged. However, the number of CAD risk factors that reached the clinical threshold for each subject declined after PRT, suggesting that resistance training can promote CAD risk reduction in ambulatory female MS subjects.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting....

I have been doing resistance training for a few years now but because of problems with my right leg I haven't been real consistant lately.

I actually enjoy it....when consistant it really helped with spasticity and my flexability.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And I'm doing exercises regularly though they are boring--some of them are classified as resistance training. I keep doing them because they really do help with pain problems I have.
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