Exercises to Reduce Fatigue Symptoms

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DR. SUSAN JEWELL: Hello. My name is Dr. Susan Jewell and on behalf of Expert Village today, I'm going to talk to you about how to treat fatigue and how to reduce the symptoms of fatigue. Now, in this clip, I'm going to show you some forms of exercise that you can do. Now, for elderly people who are very much prone to getting fatigue because of lack of exercising is that you can do milder forms. You don't need to go to the gym and really do the really exertional forms of exercise. I mean, even up in here, we have a Pilates--a Pilates mat or a yoga mat and anything that at least gives you some installation against hard floor and you could do like simples exercises just to increase the flow and circulation for your body and that would eliminate the sense of fatigue or apathy or lethargy because you are increasing oxygen flow especially to your head and to your whole body. So, even if you'd just like do simple sit-ups and several of these, I mean you can do a couple, five, 10, and then increase gradually over time over the weeks; that would also help. And also simple things like getting a stretchy band; that also is good because you can--besides being good for your--giving your body tone, you can do stretchy exercises with these, very simple. You can do this while sitting down the chair, working at the computer, or even if you're watching television, these are good things. I mean, weights are good too but you have to be very careful that you don't exert too much and you have to know how to use weights properly so you don't cause any other medical conditions with weights. Now, a simple thing to do is also, if you don't have weights, you can always get tin cans or bags of sugar and if we stand up, you can do very simple exercises with these products especially if you have osteoporosis. So, you can just do the arm and use it most kinda like weight bearing. But even still, even up and down and all these kind of--and swinging, swinging it around to give a balance, counterbalance. These are just some ways that you could use for exercising at home and to reduce the symptoms of fatigue.

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