Severna Park Chiropractic Exercise Ideas for Knee Osteoarthritis Management

Many people have knee osteoarthritis in both or one knee. That doesn’t make it any easier on its sufferers though. Back And Neck Care Center has some novel exercise tips and treatments our Severna Park 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 around the world over the age of 20 were diagnosed with it in 2020. Characteristically, knee osteoarthritis sufferers feel a loss of knee extensor strength, an increase in the severity of knee pain, and a drop 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) Back And Neck Care Center sees new treatment ideas being published all the time.

KOA TREATMENT:  Your Severna Park chiropractor has it.

A chiropractic treatment approach has demonstrated promise. A trial of treatment based on principles of Cox® flexion distraction decompression for knee osteoarthritis – that is distraction of the knee – resulted in 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) Back And Neck Care Center can link this treatment (and even some cartilage-supportive nutrition!) with your home-exercise for relief.

KOA TREATMENT: YOU, our Severna Park knee pain patient

Even though the benefits of exercise abound for KOA is well known, KOA sufferers don’t usually keep doing their exercise practice. One study made an easy-to-follow video set and calendar system that automatically noted when their did the exercises that resulted in an 82.4% participation rate. Not bad! The patients also reported satisfaction, pain reduction, and improved physical function. (4) One 4-week intervention of unilateral, non-KOA knee extensor strength training resulted in significant improvement in the knee extensor strength of the knee with KOA! This is called “cross education phenomenon.” The improved extensor strength and neuromuscular function of the knee with KOA maintained itself for 3 months. (1) Back And Neck Care Center is pretty confident a KOA sufferer will not care which knee is exercised as long as relief is forthcoming! A planned YOGA (YOGa and strengthening exercise for knee osteoArthritis) study was just described to see how yoga’s mind-body exercise format - known to enhance 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 influenced various blood tests in female patients with unilateral KOA and discovered that markers for skeletal muscle tissues were higher. (6) All these studies on various approaches to handle knee osteoarthritis may hopefully unearth a way to ease/prevent/better manage this common ailment.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Luigi Albano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates relieving chiropractic knee treatment via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for patients with KOA.

Schedule your Severna Park chiropractic appointment now. Do you have knee osteoarthritis? Come in for a visit!

Back And Neck Care Center shares recent studies regarding the exercise suggestions for knee osteoarthritis relief, even exercising the healthy knee for relief in the painful knee!
 
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