Tell patients to forget 'no pain, no gain'

AMNews: Jan. 24, 2005. Tell patients to forget 'no pain, no gain' ... American Medical News
Susan J. Landers, AMNews staff. Jan. 24, 2005.
Washington -- Many people who resolve to embark on fitness programs at the start of the new year abandon such healthy thoughts when aching knees and backs bring them into their physician's offices after just a few weeks.
But it doesn't have to be that way.
As rising levels of obesity threaten to undermine the health of young and old, increased exercise could provide a route, though not an easy one, out of this morass. Physicians can help patients develop programs that avoid some common pitfalls and could spell the difference between success and failure, say those who see the damage wrought by imprudent exercisers.