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The role of exercise in management of rheumatological disease
1MBBS (Hons), MD (ANU), MSpExSc, MHEd, FRACGP, FACSEP, SFHEA, Professor of Musculoskeletal, Sport and Exercise Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University, ACT; Visiting Medical Officer, Department of Rheumatology, The Canberra Hospital, ACT.
Background:
Exercise was once viewed as having a deleterious effect on joint pain and function in those with rheumatic diseases. Positive evidence, both related to exercises at specific joints and for exercise in the management of comorbidities and for general illness prevention, is now well established.
Objective:
The aim of this article is to provide an update on the role of therapeutic exercise at individual joints and the utility of general exercise programs in the management of comorbidities and prevention of chronic disease in those with rheumatic disease.
Discussion:
Major international rheumatology bodies now recommend multiple forms of exercise as part of the non-pharmacological management of both osteoarthritis and the more classically inflammatory rheumatic disorders.
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