Knee exercise for OA

[PMRpro]

I got a nudge from "Medicine Matters - rheumatology" this morning with an article about research using this website:

healthsciences.unimelb.edu....

I thought people might be interested in the site as there has been a fair amount of discussion recently about knee pain.

"A web-based exercise intervention combined with text messaging support for people with knee osteoarthritis (OA) leads to greater improvements in pain and function at 6 months than web-based information alone, Australian research shows.

Rachel Nelligan (University of Melbourne, Victoria) and co-authors say that the “freely available digital intervention is a useful and effective option for improving access to recommended OA exercise and/or supporting clinicians in providing exercise management to people with knee OA at scale across the population.”"

About 30% of the control group without the closer supervision didn't benefit as much so it is suggested the website be used as a basic introduction - and if you don't get any benefit to then seek more directed help from a professional.

"The primary findings were also supported by significantly greater improvements in a number of secondary measures including three KOOS subscales (pain, sports/recreation, and quality of life), health-related quality of life, Arthritis Self-Efficacy Scale pain, and overall treatment satisfaction.

The investigators conclude: “Taken together, the findings of the present study demonstrate that this easily scalable, unsupervised, free-to-access intervention is effective and may be clinically relevant on a population level.”"

[Shropshirelassy]

This is great information. Thank you for sharing. My knees have been significantly more painful for the past few weeks. Resting has done nothing. I realise after reading the article that I need to exercise mire abs keep moving to build up my knee strength. I’m starting right away!! Things can only get better!