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Exercise is recommended as an effective non-opioid strategy for non-cancer pain such as fibromyalgia and chronic low back pain. Yet most adults living with chronic pain do not exercise. Or they exercise very little. (Shutterstock)

How exercise can help tackle the opioid crisis

Nancy Gyurcsik, University of Saskatchewan and Danielle Brittain, University of Colorado Boulder

Research shows that exercise offers promise – as an alternative to prescription opioids – for relieving chronic pain.

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