title: Exercise in muscle pain disorders.
abstract: Muscle pain disorders range from local or regional (myofascial pain) to widespread (fibromyalgia). Many people with muscle pain have decreased fitness. Exercise intolerance is a common feature as well, and yet exercise plays an important role in the treatment of muscle pain disorders. Results of studies have shown repeatedly, via multiple modes and methods of delivery, that exercise is at least as effective as the best pharmacologic treatments. An understanding by clinicians and their patients of the unique benefits of a carefully crafted exercise program is one step in the successful management of these often frustrating muscle pain disorders.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, 200 1st St SW, Rochester, MN 55905-0001, USA. thompson.jeffrey@mayo.edu
authors.forename: Jeffrey M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Thompson
mesh_terms: D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D005356:Fibromyalgia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D052580:Muscle Stretching Exercises; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009209:Myofascial Pain Syndromes / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D055070:Resistance Training