Research Update

 

September 13 (Tuesday) 1:00 PM, PT (4:00 PM, ET)

 

Exercise Clinical Trial for ALS

 

Speaker: Nicholas Maragakis, M.D.; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Despite decades of discussion over the potential benefit or harm of exercise in ALS, no study has compared two forms of exercise (resistance and endurance) with the current standards of ALS care: stretching and range of motion exercise.  The ALS Association is funding this research, a randomized, controlled study. The long term goal of the study is to design a larger efficacy study and eventually develop a consensus statement on the potential benefits (or detriments) of exercise in ALS.

 

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