Exercise offers 'profound' benefit for Friedreich's ataxia, research suggests (IMAGE)

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Exercise offers 'profound' benefit for Friedreich's ataxia, research suggests

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Zhen Yan, PhD, an exercise researcher at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, is urging clinical trials of exercise in patients with Friedreich's ataxia after finding that physical activity has a "profound" protective effect in mouse models of the debilitating genetic disease.

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Dan Addison | UVA Health

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