Fort Wayne Chiropractic Exercise Ideas for Knee Osteoarthritis Management
Many people have knee osteoarthritis in both or one knee. That doesn’t cause sufferers to feel any better about it. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc has some novel exercise tips and treatments our Fort Wayne 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 oh so common! 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 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 even though just which physical activity is best has yet to be decided. (2) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc sees new treatment ideas being published a lot.
KOA TREATMENT: Your Fort Wayne chiropractor has it.
A chiropractic treatment approach has shown promise. A trial of Cox® flexion distraction decompression principled treatment for knee osteoarthritis – namely 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) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc can link this treatment (and even some cartilage-supportive nutrition!) with your home-exercise for relief.
KOA TREATMENT: YOU, our Fort Wayne knee pain patient
Even though the benefits of exercise abound for KOA is well established, KOA sufferers do not very well 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 showed an 82.4% participation rate. Not bad! The patients also reported satisfaction, pain reduction, and better 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 improved extensor strength and neuromuscular function of the knee with KOA continued for 3 months. (1) Cox Chiropractic Medicine 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 just described to find out if yoga’s mind-body exercise format - recognized as improving 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 considered how blood flow restriction with low and high load resistance exercise of the KOA-affected knee impacted various blood tests in female patients with single-knee KOA and found that markers for skeletal muscle tissues were higher. (6) All these studies on various approaches to handle knee osteoarthritis may hopefully find a way to ease/prevent/better manage this common ailment.
CONTACT Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Luigi Albano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes relieving chiropractic knee treatment via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for patients with KOA.
Make your Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment now. Do you have knee osteoarthritis? Come in for a visit!
