A technique now widely used in sports medicine to speed recovery from leg injuries helped reduce symptoms and improve ...

But starting in the mid-1990s, a body of study findings indicated that exercise is one of the best things you can do to alleviate the pain and functional limitations of knee and hip arthritis.

Messier is a principal investigator in a trial focused on the ability of diet and exercise to prevent knee osteoarthritis in women with obesity. Make sure to check with a health care provider ...

The lack of standard outcomes measures is also noted. Conclusions—The available evidence indicates beneficial short term effects of exercise treatment in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee.

We spoke to Samantha Marner, PT, DPT, at Advanced Physical Therapy, who explains more about the benefits of exercise. She ...

The authors state that future clinical trials on the benefit of long term exercise interventions in knee OA should also examine long-term changes in the knee cartilage and surrounding bone ...

This hampers interpretation of the results. There were too few trials to reliably estimate the effect of water exercise on hip or knee OA separately. There is moderate-quality evidence that aquatic ...

The review casts a slight shadow on what has been considered an integral part of therapy for knee pain. “Movement is an ...

Osteoarthritis is no longer just a disease of the elderly. A combination of sedentary lifestyles, poor diets, obesity, and ...

A trial has now shown that electrical stimulation of the quadriceps is effective for the treatment of knee OA, and could be an alternative therapy to exercise. The trial enrolled 50 patients with ...

Simple exercises can help prevent knee pain from derailing your routine, according to a physical therapist. Andrey Simeonovski, a physical therapy doctor, recently spent a week in Kathmandu as ...