Treatment effects bothering you? Go play football!

[GranPaSmurf]

Community-based football in men with prostate cancer: 1-year follow-up on a pragmatic, multicentre randomised controlled trial

Physical exercise has been shown to be effective in relation to fatigue, aerobic fitness, and lower body strength in men with prostate cancer. However, research into the clinically relevant effects of interventions conducted in heterogeneous patient populations and in real-life clinical practice settings is warranted.

214 men with prostate cancer were randomly assigned to either 6 months of free-of-charge football training twice weekly at a local club (football group [FG]) (n = 109) or usual care (usual care group [UG]) (n = 105), including brief information on physical activity recommendations at randomisation.

journals.plos.org/plosmedic...

[tom67inMA]

Wait... what? Are we talking soccer? Or American football? Because I'm picturing a guy with multiple bone mets getting gang tackled and the results aren't pretty.

Definitely agree on exercise in general, and waiting for the follow-up study where the experimental group joins Fight Club.

[GranPaSmurf in reply to tom67inMA]

Here in Texas, I bet we would call that 'soccer' - but in DENMARK maybe they call it FOOOTBALLL!

[LearnAll in reply to GranPaSmurf]

In most of the world. .its called football because ball is mostly kicked by foot.

Only in USA, its called soccer.

[GranPaSmurf in reply to LearnAll]

Which left me with a decision to make - change it to what I thought or post it as written.

But let's not miss the point of the article - exercise is good medicine.

[j-o-h-n in reply to GranPaSmurf]

Right up your alley:

youtube.com/watch?v=3hkKn6J...(Not working as expected?)

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Saturday 11/09/2019 9:58 PM EST