What is it about?
Written for a primary care readership this article provides unique insight into a tailored patient centered approach to helping patient with knee osteoarthritis. There is evidence at the level of multiple clinical trials and systematic reviews that these low risk strategies provide important benefit yet most patients with knee osteoarthritis do not receive this type of treatment prior to higher risk more invasive strategies.
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Why is it important?
There is an epidemic of opioid abuse in the United States. Far more patients with knee osteoarthritis receive treatments for which there is less evidence for benefit and higher potential risk than a low risk high benefit physical therapy approach that includes tailored well tolerated movement oriented strategies.
Perspectives
Patients in general and in this case patients with a chronic disorder like knee osteoarthritis should have an opportunity to participate in strategies detailed in this article prior to being drawn into the pathway of medications, imaging, injections, and surgery.
Dr Gail D Deyle
Army-Baylor Doctoral Fellowship in OMPT
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This page is a summary of: Well-Tolerated Strategies for Managing Knee Osteoarthritis: A Manual Physical Therapist Approach to Activity, Exercise, and Advice, The Physician and Sportsmedicine, September 2012, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.3810/psm.2012.09.1976.
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