Aerobic Exercise = Most Effective Weapon’ for Fibromyalgia

Aerobic Exercise = Most Effective Weapon’ for Fibromyalgia

For patients with fibromyalgia, treatment should be individualized and include nonpharmacologic approaches, which are often more effective than drugs, according to an expert in the field.

“There is no magic drug against fibromyalgia and, in my opinion, there will never be. Psychotherapists don’t work miracles, but psychotherapy can help and, in a few cases, turn people with fibromyalgia into nonpatients. Drugs may help, but patients don’t like them,” said investigator Winfried Häuser, MD, from Technische Universität München in Germany, who has published widely on fibromyalgia.

“Aerobic exercise is the most effective weapon we have; healthy people profit from continuous physical exercise, and so do patients with fibromyalgia,” he explained.

Dr. Häuser presented an overview of research on fibromyalgia treatment here at the European League Against Rheumatism Congress 2014.

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