The New Year is a time to invest in "New Year's Resolutions" that include goals toward an improved quality of life and a commitment to health and fitness. Achieving these goals may be more enjoyable than you had imagined if you explore the opportunity to participate in non-traditional forms of exercise. This month's column examines yoga for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and the effect it has had in reducing the secondary condition of fatigue. People with MS often experience fatigue, which can, in some cases, be an extremely limiting secondary condition leading to impairments in health-related quality of life. Fatigue is common in the legs and may appear as constant and persistent tiredness, or can be triggered by physical exertion and improve with rest for people with MS.

Yoga can be beneficial for people with disabilities, including people with MS, through both the physical postures and breath work involved. Poses can be modified or adapted to meet the needs of the individual.

To read the entire column, go to: http://www.ncpad.org/525/2452/Focus~on~Secondary~Condition~Prevention~~Non-Traditional~Exercise~as~a~Way~of~Preventing~Secondary~
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