Among people with symptoms of multiple sclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system, around 80% experience fatigue, problems with bladder control, difficulty with balance and limb tremors. To control these symptoms, lifting weights is an option to consider. Patients who underwent progressive resistance exercise for six months experienced beneficial brain changes that may prevent disease progression, compared to a control group, reports a study published in the Multiple Sclerosis Journal.
Patients with multiple sclerosis experience faster-than-normal brain shrinkage, say researchers in A press release. “Drugs can slow this shrinkage, but we found a trend that training would further decrease brain shrinkage in patients already receiving drug treatment. Furthermore, we found that several smaller areas of the brain actually started to grow in response to the training,” said Ulrik Dalgas, associate professor in the department of public health at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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