If your body tends to have more of the symptoms of Fibromyalgia and you’re both overweight and inactive, according to researchers you’re at a real risk.
At the Health Matters Show blog, I talk about the benefits of walking and staying active in activities like warm water pool therapy (e.g. water aerobics). An arthritis pool class is also an activity which most people can do.
Last month, Dr. Christopher Lepisto told us about the benefits of hydrotherapy, a different kind of water therapy technique that is totally passive. Hardly any effort is involved. This is a new concept to me, but I believe that most everyone can do hydrotherapy is some form or fashion. However, to alleviate one of the risks mentioned in the article mentioned below, you need to be active!
The objective with most exercise programs is to keep moving. To be healthy, you should not be too inactive and should not let yourself get overweight. That statement is offered with the qualifier of, if you can help it. It’s tougher to lose the weight after you’ve gained it than to keep it off. It’s also tougher to get back into an exercise routine than never to let it go in the first place. The more you age, the tougher all of this becomes.
Surely it may not be easy to achieve any form of this if you’re terribly ill or bedridden. However, as soon as you can begin to get back into your old routine or even a new, easier one, do it. Start moving again.
And finally, no matter if you suffer with Fibromyalgia, Arthritis or whatever, read the following article from MedPageToday that has references from the May issue of Arthritis Care and Research.
The keys are:
1) Stay active. Being inactive is a big risk for Fibromyalgia!
2) Keep your weight in a good range. In other words, try not to let yourself get overweight.
Otherwise, you’ll move less and you won’t enjoy life. According to the authors of the article and the researchers, those are two things that perpetuate the symptoms of Fibromyalgia.
To your health, Cinda Crawford
Host of the Health Matters Show
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