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Tonawanda Chiropractic Exercise Ideas for Knee Osteoarthritis Management

Scores of people have knee osteoarthritis in one knee or both. That doesn’t cause sufferers to feel any better about it. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation has some new exercise tips and treatments our Tonawanda knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients will want to attempt.

KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS (KOA): What It Is and How Common It Is

Knee osteoarthritis is related to aging and oh so common! 86 million people around the world over 20 years old were diagnosed with it in 2020. Typically, knee osteoarthritis sufferers have a loss of knee extensor strength, a greater severity of knee pain, and a decrease 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 even though just which physical activity is best has yet to be decided. (2) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation sees new treatment ideas being studied a lot.

KOA TREATMENT:  Your Tonawanda chiropractor has it.

A chiropractic treatment approach has shown promise. A trial of Cox® flexion distraction decompression principled treatment 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) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation can link this treatment (and even some cartilage-supporting nutrition!) with your home-exercise for relief.

KOA TREATMENT: YOU, our Tonawanda knee pain patient

Even though the benefits of exercise abound for KOA is well known, KOA sufferers are not known to continue the exercise practice. One study made an easy-to-follow video series and automated recording calendar of when they did each video that showed an 82.4% participation rate. Not bad! The patients also shared their noticed satisfaction, pain reduction, and improved physical function. (4) One month-long 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 better extensor strength and neuromuscular function of the knee with KOA lasted for 3 months. (1) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation knows a KOA sufferer won’t care which knee is exercised as long as there is relief! A proposed YOGA (YOGa and strengthening exercise for knee osteoArthritis) study was just proposed to find out if yoga’s mind-body exercise format - recognized as enhancing flexibility, muscle strength, balance and fitness - might decrease 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 looked into how blood flow restriction with low and high load resistance exercise of the KOA-affected knee impacted various blood tests in female patients with unilateral KOA and discovered that markers for skeletal muscle tissues were increased. (6) All these studies on a multitude of approaches to handle knee osteoarthritis may hopefully find 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 illustrates beneficial chiropractic knee treatment via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for patients with KOA.

Make your Tonawanda chiropractic appointment now. Are you ready for some knee pain relief? Come see us!

Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation shares recent studies regarding the exercise recommendations for knee osteoarthritis relief, even exercising the healthy knee for relief in the painful knee!
 
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