{"id":7648,"date":"2025-04-10T10:13:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T10:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/app-66b73b11c1ac1859509cd621.closte.com\/?p=7648"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:21:08","slug":"special-populations-benefits-of-training-for-people-with-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitnessnetwork.com.au\/all\/special-populations-benefits-of-training-for-people-with-ms\/","title":{"rendered":"Special populations: benefits of training for people with MS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Interesting news if you train clients with chronic disease, specifically multiple sclerosis (MS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A review in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management<\/em>\u00a0has highlighted an increase in evidence supporting the practice of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitnessnetwork.com.au\/\">exercise <\/a>in MS patients. The review suggests that this group can tolerate exercise to a high enough degree to enable improvements in fitness, function and quality of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an important finding, because over 90 per cent of MS sufferers report mobility difficulties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lead author Susan Kasser, PhD, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitnessnetwork.com.au\/personal-trainers\/\">Exercise <\/a>and Movement Science Program Director and an Associate Professor of Rehabilitation and Movement Science at the University of Vermont, said that targeted balance-oriented exercise for this population has the potential to improve balance and functional mobility \u2013 although she stressed the need for further study on the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Given the inherent variability of MS and the heterogeneity of symptoms and disease course across individuals, no single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitnessnetwork.com.au\/personal-trainers\/\">exercise <\/a>prescription is optimal for all those diagnosed. Treatment goals must be individualised\u2019 said Kasser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Medical News Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting news if you train clients with chronic disease, specifically multiple sclerosis (MS). A review in the\u00a0Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management\u00a0has highlighted an increase in evidence supporting the practice of exercise in MS patients. The review suggests that this group can tolerate exercise to a high enough degree to enable improvements in fitness, function and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitnessnetwork.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitnessnetwork.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitnessnetwork.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitnessnetwork.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitnessnetwork.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitnessnetwork.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitnessnetwork.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitnessnetwork.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitnessnetwork.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}