If moderate exercise doesn’t prevent OA, what does? “Keeping your weight down is a good way to keep you from getting it, that much we know,” Dr. Felson says. “And avoid situations where you’re likely to injure your knees.”
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If moderate exercise doesn’t prevent OA, what does? “Keeping your weight down is a good way to keep you from getting it, that much we know,” Dr. Felson says. “And avoid situations where you’re likely to injure your knees.”
Through teamwork, David T. Felson, MD, MPH, has advanced understanding and treatment of rheumatic diseases
The benefits of exercise therapy for individuals with knee osteoarthritis (OA) are well known. The ACR strongly recommends both aquatic exercise and land-based aerobic and resistance exercise for managing knee OA.1 A recent Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis concluded that high-quality evidence supports the use of exercise to reduce pain and improve physical function and…
CHICAGO—Many nonsurgical therapies are available for knee osteoarthritis pain, but they vary greatly in effectiveness. “How should I proceed and figure out what to do with our patients?” asked David T. Felson, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, during OA Management Without Surgery in 2018, a session at the 2018…
It’s time we changed our thinking on osteoarthritis