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Ashburn Chiropractic Exercise Ideas for Knee Osteoarthritis Management

Numerous people have knee osteoarthritis in one knee or both. That doesn’t make it any easier on its sufferers though. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn has some novel exercise tips and treatments our Ashburn 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 everywhere! 86 million people around the world over 20 years old were diagnosed with it in 2020. Typically, knee osteoarthritis sufferers have 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) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn sees new treatment ideas being studied a lot.

KOA TREATMENT:  Your Ashburn 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 – 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) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn can link this treatment (and even some cartilage-supporting nutrition!) with your home-exercise for relief.

KOA TREATMENT: YOU, our Ashburn knee pain patient

Despite the benefits of exercise on KOA is well established, KOA sufferers do not very well continue the exercise routine. One study made an easy-to-follow video set and calendar system that automatically noted when their did the exercises that resulted in an 82.4% participation rate. Not bad! The patients also described satisfaction, pain reduction, and improved 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 improved extensor strength and neuromuscular function of the knee with KOA maintained itself for 3 months. (1) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn knows a KOA sufferer will not care which knee is exercised as long as there is relief! A proposed YOGA (YOGa and strengthening exercise for knee osteoArthritis) study was just described to see how yoga’s mind-body exercise format - recognized as enhancing flexibility, muscle strength, balance and fitness - might decrease the symptoms of knee osteoarthritis and even improve 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 modified various blood tests in female patients with single-knee KOA and discovered that markers for skeletal muscle tissues were higher. (6) All these studies on various approaches to handle knee osteoarthritis may hopefully unearth a way to ease/prevent/better manage this common condition.

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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 Ashburn chiropractic appointment soon. Are you ready for some knee pain relief? Come see us!

Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn shares recent studies regarding the exercise recommendations for knee osteoarthritis relief, even exercising the healthy knee for relief in the painful knee!
 
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