REUTERS HEALTH: Patients with arthritic knees can add hip-strengthening exercises to their workout to improve the ability to walk and maybe reduce pain, according to a research review.
"With a growing population and increasing number of lower limb injuries, there is going to be an ever increasing burden on the health system to manage knee osteoarthritis," he told Reuters Health by email. Overall, adding hip-strengthening significantly improved walking function, though it did not have a statistically meaningful effect on pain, stair function or the ability to stand from a sitting position.
"Many health professionals are concerned only with the site affected by the disease, forgetting the regional consequences of the disease" at the hip or beyond, said Dr. Jamil Natour, chief of rheumatology at the Federal University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, who wasn't involved in the study.
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