Chronic Pain Management in the Obese Patient: a Focused Review of Key Challenges and Potential Exercise Solutions Published by Dove Medical Press
(PRWEB) February 24, 2015 -- The Journal of Pain Research has published the review “Chronic pain management in the obese patient: a focused review of key challenges and potential exercise solutions”.
As corresponding author Dr. Heather Vincent says “In people of all ages, obesity is related to musculoskeletal pain and deterioration of physical function. It is important to recognize that the mechanisms of pain are likely complex and include the interaction of mechanical stress, systemic inflammation and psychological distress. Exercise, preferably a mix of both aerobic and resistance, can help combat these mechanisms and pain, even if significant weight loss does not occur.”
Dr. Vincent continues “Advancement of this area can occur when there is a better understanding of the characteristics of pain responders with exercise and rigorous scientific study of comparative exercise programs to treat musculoskeletal pain in obese persons.”
As Dr. Michael Schatman, Editor-in-Chief, explains “This paper is noteworthy as it provides an extremely important review of the increasingly prevalent intersection between the diseases of chronic pain and obesity.”
The Journal of Pain Research is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, online journal that welcomes laboratory and clinical findings in the fields of pain research and the prevention and management of pain.
Dove Medical Press Ltd is a privately held company specializing in the publication of Open Access peer-reviewed journals across the broad spectrum of science, technology and especially medicine.
Angela Jones, Dove Medical Press, +649 443 3060 Ext: 207, [email protected]
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