Largo Chiropractic Exercise Ideas for Knee Osteoarthritis Management
Scores of people have knee osteoarthritis in one knee or both. That doesn’t make it any easier on its sufferers though. Hollstrom & Associates Inc has some novel exercise tips and treatments our Largo knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients will want to try for themselves.
KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS (KOA): What It Is and How Common It Is
Knee osteoarthritis is aging-related and everywhere! 86 million people globally over the age of 20 were diagnosed with it in 2020. Characteristically, knee osteoarthritis sufferers feel a loss of knee extensor strength, a greater severity of knee pain, and a decline in functional performance. (1) Knee osteoarthritis is the degeneration of cartilage, part of the natural aging process whether we like it or not. Physical activity has demonstrated a positive effect on cartilage structure despite not yet knowing which exercise is best. (2) Hollstrom & Associates Inc sees new treatment ideas being published a lot.
KOA TREATMENT: Your Largo chiropractor has it.
A chiropractic treatment approach has shown promise. A trial of treatment based on principles of Cox® flexion distraction decompression for knee osteoarthritis – that is distraction of the knee – reported relief of patient-perceived pain from 7.7 (out of 10) to 1.8 in a mean of 5.3 visits in 3 weeks for 25 patients. (3) Hollstrom & Associates Inc can partner this treatment (and even some cartilage-supportive nutrition!) with your home-exercise for relief.
KOA TREATMENT: YOU, our Largo knee pain patient
Even though the benefits of exercise abound for KOA is well established, KOA sufferers don’t usually stick to the exercise routine. One study made an easy-to-follow video series and automated recording calendar of when they did each video that resulted in an 82.4% participation rate. Not bad! The patients also shared their noticed satisfaction, pain reduction, and improved physical function. (4) One 4-week intervention of single knee, non-KOA knee extensor strength training produced significant improvement in the knee extensor strength of the knee with KOA! This is called “cross education phenomenon.” The enhanced extensor strength and neuromuscular function of the knee with KOA lasted for 3 months. (1) Hollstrom & Associates Inc knows a KOA sufferer won’t care which knee is exercised as long as relief is forthcoming! A proposed YOGA (YOGa and strengthening exercise for knee osteoArthritis) study was recently proposed to see how yoga’s mind-body exercise format - recognized as enhancing flexibility, muscle strength, balance and fitness - might reduce the symptoms of knee osteoarthritis and even enhance other outcomes like pain, function, quality of life, gait speed, cost effectiveness, and others. (5) Another study considered how blood flow restriction with low and high load resistance exercise of the KOA-affected knee changed various blood tests in female patients with single-knee KOA and found that markers for skeletal muscle tissues were increased. (6) All these studies on a multitude of approaches to manage knee osteoarthritis may hopefully unearth a way to ease/prevent/better manage this common condition.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Luigi Albano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes beneficial chiropractic knee treatment via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for patients with KOA.
Make your Largo chiropractic appointment today. Are you ready for some knee pain relief? Come see us!
