Carrolltown Chiropractic Exercise Ideas for Knee Osteoarthritis Management
Countless people have knee osteoarthritis in both or one knee. That does not cause sufferers to feel any better about it. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation has some novel exercise tips and treatments our Carrolltown knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients will want to try for themselves.
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 globe over 20 years old 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 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 been shown to positively affect cartilage structure even though just which physical activity is best has yet to be decided. (2) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation sees new treatment ideas being studied all the time.
KOA TREATMENT: Your Carrolltown chiropractor has it.
A chiropractic treatment approach has demonstrated potential. 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) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation can partner this treatment (and even some cartilage-supportive nutrition!) with your home-exercise for relief.
KOA TREATMENT: YOU, our Carrolltown knee pain patient
Despite the benefits of exercise on KOA is well known, KOA sufferers don’t usually keep doing their exercise practice. One study set up 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 reported satisfaction, pain reduction, and better physical function. (4) One month-long 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 better extensor strength and neuromuscular function of the knee with KOA maintained itself for 3 months. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation knows 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 recently proposed to find out if yoga’s mind-body exercise format - known to improve 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 influenced 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 various approaches to manage knee osteoarthritis may hopefully find 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 describes relieving chiropractic knee treatment via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for patients with KOA.
Make your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment today. Are you ready for some knee pain relief? Come in for a visit!
