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Researchers at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics found that women with the strongest quadriceps muscles appeared to be protected against the development of knee osteoarthritis (OA). The team, led by Neil Segal, M.D., M.S., followed over 3,000 women and men over a 2 ½ year period in the Multicenter Knee Osteoarthritis Study [...] In what is being called a “landmark” study, arthroscopic knee surgery has been shown to be ineffective at reducing joint pain or improving joint function beyond physical therapy and medication for patients with moderate knee osteoarthritis. [...] Osteoarthritis (OA) can occur in any joint but is most common in the knee. The load placed on the knee determines how quickly the disease progresses. A 20 percent increase in the load on the knee is associated with increasing the risk of progression of osteoarthritis by 600%. Two common recommendations for knee OA [...] |
  
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