Repetitive Stress Injuries Respond Well to Exercise

Repetitive stress injuries, often caused by some work-related motion, supposedly cost business $100 billion a year, so you might think someone would have figured out the best way to treat them a long time ago. Not exactly. The good news, though, is that researchers now think they have an answer, and it's not what most doctors would have recommended. The Los Angeles Times reports that a review of 14 studies suggests that different types of exercise, including strength, weight and endurance training, may be the best way to go.  The paper quotes Arianne Verhagen, the lead author of the review and a physical therapist and epidemiologist at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands expressing her amazement that "no one has ever evaluated the effectiveness of these expensive ergonomic interventions for most conditions."
"While we can't draw any firm conclusions, because some of the data is inconclusive," says Verhagen, "I put my money on exercise: It's cheap and everyone can do it in their own time and their own way."