Watching her grandmother struggle with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) as she grew up, Purdue University Department of Health and Kinesiology PhD student Emily Jakob had one doctor\u2019s statement stuck in her head: \u201cIf Barbara had just exercised, if she were just more active from her diagnosis onward, she would have progressed slower \u2014 her quality of life would have been better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":45834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[251,6,19],"tags":[263,386,2416,2417,2418,805,240,176,2019],"class_list":["post-45833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-students","category-health-and-kinesiology","category-research","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-health-and-kinesiology","tag-emily-jakob","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-patient-determined-disease-step-scale","tag-physical-activity","tag-purdue-university","tag-research","tag-steve-amireault"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n