Aerobic Exercise Interventions for Patients in Opioid Maintenance Treatment: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) is the standard for treatment of opioid use disorder, but some individuals on OMT experience disrupted sleep, heightened sensitivity to pain, and continued relapse to non-medical opioid use. An adjunctive treatment that has potential to address these shortcomings of OMT is aerobic exercise.

Objective

The aim of the present review was to identify and evaluate components of aerobic exercise interventions targeting OMT patients.

Methods

For this PROSPERO-registered review (ID CRD42020139626), studies were identified via electronic bibliographic databases, funded research (NIH RePORTER) and clinical trials databases (ClinicalTrials.gov), and reference sections of relevant manuscripts. Studies that evaluated the e

SUBMITTER: Jake-Schoffman DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8832319 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature