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- Title
Review: Both aerobic and home-based quadriceps strengthening exercises reduce pain and disability in knee osteoarthritis: COMMENTARY.
- Authors
Schattner, Ami
- Abstract
This article comments on a clinical study according to which both aerobic and home-based quadriceps strengthening exercises reduce pain and disability in knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis of the knee is very common as a third of elderly persons show radiographic evidence of knee osteoarthritis, and the prevalence is steadily rising with the increasing age of the population and the epidemic of obesity, 2 major risk factors. Although nonpharmacologic measures have long been a part of guidelines for treatment of knee osteoarthritis, the systematic review of RCTs is an important addition. Exercise has many additional benefits, not the least of which is a decreased incidence of disability in activities of daily living in older patients.
- Subjects
AEROBIC exercises; OSTEOARTHRITIS; CLINICAL trials; EXERCISE; BODY weight; JOINT diseases
- Publication
ACP Journal Club, 2005, Vol 143, Issue 3, p71
- ISSN
1056-8751
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7326/acpjc-2005-143-3-071