Galileo Research Facts No. 57: Can Galileo Therapy in Duchenne muscle dystrophy increase muscle power and force?

For a long time, medicine assumed that in some rare disease like Duchenne muscle dystrophy (DMD, a genetic predisposition which causes muscle loss which dramatically increases during growth) any kind of muscle exercise would cause negative effects. However, any disuse (not using a function regularly and not using it at high enough intensity) leads to loss of the function simply because the body assumes this function is obviously not needed – therefore it is very unlikely that exercising a function should be contra-productive in general.

This study showed that Galileo Therapy over a period of 8 weeks can significantly increases muscle power and muscle force of up to 12% in Duchenne patients age 6 to 18. This is quite remarkable considering that this was a pre study only designed to prove that Galileo Therapy is safe in Duchenne patients and therefore the setup was using simple quite low intensity exercises. By the way, other studies in this field (#GRFS73, #GRFS91) as well as in SMA (Spinal Muscle Atrophy, #GRFS58) showed similar positive effects.

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