Ep 71: 3 facts about staying active with knee OA, with Dr Daniel White
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Do You Prescribe Specific Exercises for Osteoarthritis?
We typically believe that once youave develope ina pan that you start to do less. People avoid certain activities. There are definite behavior changes, however, from an energy expenditure perspective, or from a physical activity perspective, there's not much change that happens. We took a look at this using a large observational data set of healthy or of the general population and compared those individuals without ostere thritus to those with painful nee. And we found, by enlarge, within a sex and age strata, they did the same there was the same amount of, unfortunately, low levels of physical activity in both groups.
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