Osteophytosis of the knee: association with changes in weight-bearing exercise
| Autor: | Henry H. Jones, Beat A. Michel, Daniel A. Bloch, James F. Fries, Nancy E Lane |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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musculoskeletal diseases
Male medicine.medical_specialty Knee Joint Negative association Osteoarthritis Cohort Studies Weight-Bearing Degenerative disease Rheumatology Weight bearing exercise Internal medicine medicine Humans Prospective Studies Prospective cohort study Exercise Aged business.industry Mean age General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Radiography Physical therapy Female sense organs business Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Clinical rheumatology. 11(2) |
| ISSN: | 0770-3198 |
| Popis: | Osteoarthritis has been held to result from wear and tear. We addressed this hypothesis by analysis of anteroposterior radiographs of the knees of 51 subjects with mean age of 60 years who regularly practiced weight-bearing exercise. Radiographs were assessed for longitudinal changes in spur formation over a two-year period. The results showed a negative association between changes in weight-bearing exercise and changes in the rate of spur development in both males and females. The findings suggest that increasing repetitive impulse loading in the form of regular painless weight-bearing activity does not promote osteophytosis (or perhaps degenerative disease) in knee joints. |
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