Even patients whose symptoms have lasted less than a year experience improvement in pain and physical function when they initiate exercise therapy for knee osteoarthritis. OARSI2023
DENVER — Initiating exercise therapy early on in people who develop symptoms of knee osteoarthritis — even within their first year of pain or reduced function — is associated with modestly lower pain scores and modestly better function than in those whose symptoms have lasted longer, according to a Although the benefits of exercise therapy for advanced knee osteoarthritis had already been well established, this study looked specifically at benefits from exercise therapy earlier on, in patients...
About two-thirds of the participants were women , with an average age of 65 years and an average body mass index of 30.7 kg/m. Any land-based or water-based therapeutic exercise counted for the 62% of participants in the intervention group, while the control group had no exercise.
Chris Yun Lane, PT, DPT, a physical therapist and a fourth-year PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was not surprised at the exercise benefit given the extensive evidence already showing that exercise is beneficial for patients with osteoarthritis whose symptoms have lasted longer.
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