Tonawanda Chiropractic Exercise Ideas for Knee Osteoarthritis Management
Numerous 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 aging-related and oh so common! 86 million people around the world over 20 years old were diagnosed with it in 2020. Characteristically, knee osteoarthritis sufferers experience a loss of knee extensor strength, a greater 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 been shown to positively affect cartilage structure despite not yet knowing which exercise is best. (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 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) 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 don’t usually stick to the exercise routine. One study set up an easy-to-follow video series and automated recording calendar of when they did each video that demonstrated an 82.4% participation rate. Not bad! The patients also described satisfaction, pain reduction, and better physical function. (4) One 4-week intervention of single knee, 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 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 relief is forthcoming! A proposed YOGA (YOGa and strengthening exercise for knee osteoArthritis) study was just described 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 modified 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 variety of approaches to manage knee osteoarthritis may hopefully unearth a way to ease/prevent/better manage this common condition.
CONTACT Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
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 soon. Do you suffer with knee osteoarthritis? Come in for a visit!
