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A case study was done in San Paulo, Brazil on 7 year old twin girls; one who has the disease Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM); the second twin was healthy and used as a control. In this study exercise training was used to see if the disease was responsive to this kind of therapy. This experimental trial study was a unique one due to the fact that physical exercise has been used in a number of other muscle diseases to help improve the patient's quality of life but never tried in JDM. This disease when active causes the sufferer to have muscle waste and without activity it can cause irreversible damage. “JDM is a rare, idiopathic and non-supportive inflammatory disease that causes proximal muscle weakness and a variety of cutaneous features.” Upon reading the case study the main treatment for JDM include intravenous injections and heavy anti inflammatories which can have harmful effects on the sufferer. This disease presented itself when the unhealthy twin was 2 years old. Her symptoms when she was seen by doctors were recurrent falls, fever, progressive weight loss, muscle weakness, trouble walking and myalgia. After many test were run it was found …show more content…

I am not someone who thinks about movement of my body being such an absolute blessing. In doing research for this review I know now there are a ton of different reasons are muscles can fail us. Exercise and movement are vital to our health. I have become aware that not only for people who have debilitating diseases but people like me who are healthy NEED to MOVE. To think that years went by with people thinking that movement would make this disease worse is so hurtful to me. I am hopeful that there will be more studies done using this kind of therapy to help people gain back some muscle function or at least hold onto what they have. I will no longer take it for granted when my fast as lighting 7 year old want to run to the mailbox because movement is such a

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