{"id":4702,"date":"2016-03-16T14:13:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T18:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2016-03-18T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:47:11","slug":"the-next-miracle-cure-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-next-miracle-cure-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"The next miracle cure &#8211; exercise<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Physical activity and specific exercises have been shown to be effective in alleviating the symptoms of many chronic health conditions such as knee osteoarthritis, low back pain, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However a new review shows these exercises are being under-prescribed by physicians. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authors suggest this is due to a lack of awareness about the effectiveness of exercise, and a lack of awareness about the specific exercises needed. Consequently the study includes easy-to-use boxes outlining the different exercises, as well as where and how frequently the exercises should be performed for several different health problems, including type 2 diabetes, COPD, and lower back pain. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/content\/early\/2016\/03\/14\/cmaj.150684\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0the <em>CMAJ\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>March\u00a014<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Tammy Hoffmann,\u00a0Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice,\u00a0 Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine,\u00a0Bond University, Australia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physical activity and specific exercises have been shown to be effective in alleviating the symptoms of many chronic health conditions such as knee osteoarthritis, low back pain, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However a new review shows these exercises are being under-prescribed by physicians. The authors suggest this is due to a lack of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1792,51,1647,53,50,2516,476],"class_list":["post-4702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-exercise","tag-health","tag-human-behaviour","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-prescription","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1dQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4725,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions\/4725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}