Healing Through Exercise: Scientifically Proven Ways to Prevent and Overcome Illness and Lengthen Your Life (25 page)

19
Paul Thompson, “Exercise Prescription and Proscription for Patients with Coronary Artery Disease,”
Circulation
112 (2005): 2354-2363.

CHAPTER 7: GROWING BONES

1
Miriam Nelson and others,
Strong Women and Men Beat Arthritis
(New York: Perigee, 2002).

2
Kristin Baker and others, “The Efficacy of Home Based Progressive Strength Training in Older Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Controlled Trial,”
The Journal of Rheumatology
28 (2001): 1655-1665.

3
Nelson and others.

4
K. S. Thomas and others, “Home Based Exercise Programme for Knee Pain and Knee Osteoarthritis: Randomised Controlled Trial,”
British Medical Journal
325 (2002): 752.

5
B. W. Penninx and others, “Physical Exercise and the Prevention of Disability in Activities of Daily Living in Older Persons with Osteoarthritis,”
Archives of Internal Medicine
161 (2001): 2309-2316.

6
Jean-Michel Brismée and others, “Group and Home-Based Tai Chi in Elderly Subjects with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Controlled Trial,”
Clinical Rehabilitation
21 (2007): 99-111.

7
Alexandra Kirkley and others, “A Randomized Trial of Arthroscopic Surgery for Osteoarthritis of the Knee,”
The New England Journal of Medicine
359 (2008): 1097-1107.

8
www.mayoclinic.org
, accessed June 7, 2008.

9
Klaus-Michael Braumann,
Die Heilkraft der Bewegung
(Munich: Irisiana, 2006).

10
Lars Konradsen and others, “Long Distance Running and Osteoarthrosis,”
The American Journal of Sports Medicine
18 (1990): 379-381.

11
N. E. Lane and others, “The Risk of Osteoarthritis with Running and Aging: A 5-year Longitudinal Study,”
Journal of Rheumatology
20.3 (1993): 461-468.

12
Beat Knechtle and others, “Führt Laufen zu Arthrose?”
Praxis
95 (2005): 1305-1316.

13
Stefan Gödde, “Rheumatoide Arthritis: Kondition und Sport,”
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin
5 (2004): 137-138.

14
B. K. Pedersen and B. Saltin, “Evidence for Prescribing Exercise as Therapy in Chronic Disease,”
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports
16, suppl.1 (2006): 3-63.

15
Kevin McCully and others, “Reduced Oxidative Muscle Metabolism in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,”
Muscle Nerve
19 (1996): 621-625.

16
Kathy Fulcher and Peter White, “Randomised Controlled Trial of Graded Exercise in Patients with the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,”
British Medical Journal
314 (1997): 1647-1652.

17
Monika Siegrist and others, “Kraftraining an Konventionellen bzw. Oszillierenden Geräten und Wirbelsäulengymnastik in der Prävention der Osteoporose bei Postmenopausalen Frauen,”
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin
7/8 (2006): 182-188.

18
The number relates to women with a femoral neck T score of 2.5 or less; C. Green and others,
Bone Mineral Density Testing: Does the Evidence Support Its Selective Use in Well Women?
(Vancouver, BC: British Columbia Office of Health Technology Assessment, 1997).

19
Steven R. Cummings and others, “Effect of Alendronate on Risk of Fracture in Women with Low Bone Density but Without Vertebral Fractures: Results from the Fracture Intervention Trial,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
280 (1998): 2077-2082.

20
John Abramson,
Overdosed America
(New York: HarperCollins, 2004).

21
Ibid.

22
Henry Bone and others, “Ten Years’ Experience with Alendronate for Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women,”
New England Journal of Medicine
350 (2004): 1189-1199.

23
Eckhard Schönau and Oliver Fricke, “Muskel und Knochen—eine funktionelle Einheit,”
Deutsches Ärzteblatt
50 (2006): A3414-A3419.

24
Diane Feskanich and others, “Walking and Leisure-Time Activity and Risk of Hip Fracture in Postmenopausal Women,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
288 (2002): 2300-2306.

25
Press release, University of Freiburg, Germany, March 9, 2004.

26
Ibid.

27
Edward Gregg and others, “Physical Activity and Osteoporotic Fracture Risk in Older Women,”
Annals of Internal Medicine
129 (1998): 81-88.

28
Der Tagesspiegel
, October 31, 2006.

CHAPTER 8: A SPORTING CURE FOR BACK PAIN

1
I learned about Dr Weinstein’s twisted back from a newspaper article and interviewed him subsequently by phone. See also Gina Kolata, “When It’s O.K. to Run Hurt,”
New York Times
, January 11, 2007.

2
James Weinstein, “Absent from Work: Nature Versus Nurture,”
Annals of Internal Medicine
140 (2004): 142-143.

3
Gordon Waddell and others, “Systematic Reviews of Bed Rest and Advice to Stay Active for Acute Low Back Pain,”
British Journal of General Practice
47 (1997): 647-652.

4
Annette Becker, “Schonungslose Medizin—Der neue Umgang mit dem Kranksein,”
Zeitschrift für Allgemeinmedizin
82 (2006): 338-342.

5
Jan Hildebrandt and S. Mense, “Rückenschmerzen-ein ungelöstes Problem,”
Der Schmerz
6 (2001): 411-412.

6
Steffen Heger, “Zur Psychosomatik des Failed-Back-Syndroms: Warum Rückenschmerzen chronifizieren,”
Der Nervenarzt
3 (1999): 225-232.

7
Jürgen Krämer, “Presidential Address: Natural Course and Prognosis of Intervertebral Disc Disease,”
Spine
20 (1995): 635-639.

8
Richard Deyo, “Low-Back Pain,”
Scientific American
, August 1998.

9
Ibid.

10
Heger, 225-232.

11
Richard Deyo and James Weinstein, “Low Back Pain,”
New England Journal of Medicine
344 (2001): 363-370.

12
Ingrid Gralow, “Psychosoziale Risikofaktoren in der Chronifizierung von Rückenschmerzen,”
Schmerz
14 (2000): 104-110.

13
Jan Hildebrandt, “Die Muskulatur als Ursache für Rückenschmerzen,”
Schmerz
17 (2003): 412-418.

14
Ibid.

15
Michael Pfingsten and Jan Hildebrandt, “Die Behandlung Chronischer Rückenschmerzen durch ein Intensives Aktivierungskonzept (GRIP)—Eine Bilanz von 10 Jahren,”
Anästhesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther
36 (2001): 580-589.

16
Kolata.

17
Michael Strumpf and others, “Medikamentöse Therapie bei Rückenschmerzen,”
Schmerz
15 (2001): 453-460.

18
Pfingsten and Hildebrandt, 580-589.

19
James Weinstein and others, “Surgical Versus Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disk Herniation,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
296 (2006): 2441-2450.

20
Eugene Carragee, “Surgical Treatment of Lumbar Disk Disorders,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
296 (2006): 2485- 2487.

21
Jeremy Fairbank and others, “Randomised Controlled Trial to Compare Surgical Stabilisation of the Lumbar Spine with an Intensive Rehabilitation Programme for Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: The MRC Spine Stabilisation Trial,”
British Medical Journal
330 (2005): 1233-1238.

22
This was the mind-set at Klinikum Neustadt in Holstein, a huge German spine center, where many patients are treated after previous surgery.

23
Jens Ivar Brox and others, “Lumbar Instrumented Fusion Compared with Cognitive Intervention and Exercises in Patients with Chronic Back Pain After Previous Surgery for Disc Herniation,”
Pain
122 (2006): 145-155.

24
Ibid.

25
A. Mannion and others, “Comparison of Three Active Therapies for Chronic Low Back Pain: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial with One-Year Follow-Up,”
Rheumatology
40 (2001): 772-778.

26
Ibid.

27
Ibid.

28
Kolata.

CHAPTER 9: EXERCISE AND BRAIN POWER

1
Wildor Hollmann and Heiko Strüder, “Gehirngesundheit, Leistungsfähigkeit und körperliche Aktivität,”
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin
9 (2003): 265-266.

2
Wildor Hollmann and others, “Körperliche Aktivität fördert Gehirngesundheit und Leistungsfähigkeit,”
Nervenheilkunde
9 (2003): 467-474.

3
Christine Graf and others, “Zusammenhänge zwischen Körperlicher Aktivität und Konzentration im Kindesalter—Eingangsergebnisse des CHILT-Projekts,”
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin
9 (2003): 242-246.

4
Claudia Voelker-Rehage, “Der Zusammenhang zwischen Motorischer und kognitiver Entwicklung im frühen Kindesalter—ein Teilergebnis der MODALIS-Studie,”
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin
10 (2005): 358-363.

5
Adele Diamond, “Close Interrelation of Motor Development and Cognitive Development and of the Cerebellum and Prefrontal Cortex,”
Child Development
71 (2000): 44-56.

6
A. Busche and others, “Lernen braucht Bewegung,”
Praxis der Naturwissenschaften—Biologie in der Schule
4.55 (2006): 40-44.

7
Diamond, 44-56

8
Ciba-Geigy fused in 1996 with Sandoz to become Novartis, the current manufacturer of Ritalin.

9
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/m.html
, accessed October 18, 2008.

10
Nora D. Volkow and others, “Therapeutic Doses of Oral Methylphenidate Significantly Increase Extracellular Dopamine in the Human Brain,”
The Journal of Neuroscience
21 (2001): 1-5, reprint at:
www.jneurosci.org/cgi/reprint/21/2/RC121
.

11
Personal communication, March 2, 2007.

12
Diamond, 44-56.

13
Personal communication, February 19, 2007.

14
Personal communication, Christina Hahn, March 2, 2007.

CHAPTER 10: LIFTING THE SPIRIT

1
Andreas Broocks, “Körperliches Training in der Behandlung psychischer Erkrankungen,”
Bundesgesundheitsbl—Gesundheitsforsch—Gesundheitsschutz
8 (2005): 914-921.

2
Norbert-Ullrich Neumann and Karel Frasch, “Biologische Mechanismen antidepressiver Wirksamkeit von körperlicher Aktivität,”
Psychoneuro
31 (2005): 513-517.

3
Broocks, 914-921.

4
Michael Babyak and others, “Exercise Treatment for Major Depression: Maintenance of Therapeutic Benefit at 10 Months,”
Psychosomatic Medicine
62 (2000): 633-638.

5
Compare to the press release from the DukeMed news office on October 24, 1999: “Exercise May Be Just as Effective as Medication for Treating Major Depression.”

6
Andrea Dunn and others, “Exercise Treatment for Depression,”
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
28 (2005): 1-8.

7
Broocks, 914-921.

8
Ibid.

9
The Latin proverb about the sound mind in a sound body (mens sana in corpore sano) is a truncated quotation that took on a life of its own. Juvenal actually said that—rather than for wealth, power, or children—men should
pray
for a sound mind in a sound body.

10
Paul A. Adlard and others, “Voluntary Exercise Decreases Amyloid Load in a Transgenic Model of Alzheimer’s Disease,”
The Journal of Neuroscience
25.17 (April 27, 2005): 4217-4221.