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Taking Aerobic exercise
28 Patients currently take Aerobic exercise
2 Patients stopped taking Aerobic exercise
burrwarren Sensation: Moderate Overall: Moderate Cognition: moderate Vision: moderate Speech: moderate Swallowing: mild Upper limb: mild Walking: mild See profile burrwarren 30min daily since Nov 10, 2008
blueyedpoz81 Mental Symptoms: unreported Physical Symptoms: unreported Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: unreported 501 VL 12k See profile blueyedpoz81 60min daily since Nov 25, 2008
coco puff Sensation: None Overall: None Cognition: unreported Vision: unreported Speech: unreported Swallowing: unreported Upper limb: unreported Walking: unreported See profile coco puff 30min daily since Aug 01, 2008

What is Aerobic exercise? Aerobic exercise refers to exercise that involves or improves oxygen consumption by the body. Aerobic means "with oxygen", and refers to the use of oxygen in the body's metabolic or energy-generating process.

Jump to:: Reasons Taken; Dosages; Duration; Patient Evaluations

Reasons Taken

30 patients in the community are taking or have taken Aerobic exercise.

Reason	# Patients	Percentage of patients
General health	14	46%
Other	2	6%
Slow my MS progress	2	6%
Weight loss	2	6%
Treat my PSP	1	3%
Anxiety	1	3%
Treat Parkinson's	1	3%
Treat my mood condition(s)	1	3%
Depression	1	3%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Aerobic exercise.

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All (Show Top 10)

0 day	0 hr none	0 min none	0 none	0 week	0.42858 week	1 hr day	12.8574 min week	17.1432 min week	20 min day	30 min day	30 min none	35 min day	60 min day
1	1	1	1	1	1	3	1	2	2	6	1	1	4

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Aerobic exercise or how long patients were taking Aerobic exercise before stopping.

Currently taking Aerobic exercise

0-1 month	1-3 months	3-6 months	6 months-1year	1-2 years	2 years or more
2	4	5	4	1	10

Stopped taking Aerobic exercise

0-1 month	1-3 months	3-6 months	6 months-1year	1-2 years	2 years or more
0	0	1	0	0	1

Why Patients Stopped Taking Aerobic exercise (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason	# Patients	Percentage of patients
Side effects too severe	1	50%
Other	1	50%
Course of treatment ended	1	50%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 4 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major	100%	3

General health

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe	0%	0
Moderate	0%	0
Mild	0%	0
None	100%	4

Top reported side-effects include: Shortness of breath, sweating

Summary results are based on 4 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (1 of 4)

PerfectHealth

Sensation: None

Overall: None

Cognition: none

Vision: none

Speech: none

Swallowing: none

Upper limb: none

Walking: none

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by PerfectHealth
Sep 18, 2008