New category (exercise & fitness)

[administrator]

Dear Forum Users,

We are happy to annouce the arrival of our newest category: Exercise & Fitness

If you have any specific questions pertaining to excerise & fitness, you'll want to post them in this category.

Question in this category will be answered by Dr. Taylor Lee. Dr. Lee is currently a practicing physical therapist and has over ten years of fitness experience working with various special populations.

To find out more about Dr. Lee, please visit the <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://forums.cysticfibrosis.com/categories.cfm?catid=16">Exercise & Fitness category</a>.

 

[anonymous]

My 17 year old daughter is in desperate need of exercise of some kind. She is either very low energy or exhausted from bouts of extreme coughing accompanied by wretching. Her body hurts all over. She has some fairly severe appetite issues. No G tube, but taking marinol with some success. The problem is that she's malnourished, and her body doesn't have enough resources to fight her condition AND work towards improvement. I was thinking that by beginning an exercise program of some kind, she would help herself in terms of her pulmonary functionality, increased appetite, build muscle and stamina, etc.

With her level of energy/strength right now, I'm thinking she should start very slowly. A 15 minute walk and maybe some exercises targeted toward the weak to help them gain strength, e.g. geriatric therapy. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[anonymous]

You should post this question in the exercise/fitness category if you haven't done so already. You are likely to get more responses that way. To do that, go up to the navigation drop down on the top right and select the exercise/fitness category. When you get there select new topic and post your question. You can copy and paste from your question here.

Julie (wife to mark 24 w/CF)

 

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