Adherence Improves Long-Term Effectiveness of Exercise Therapy

Patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee or hip who adhere to the recommended home physical therapy exercises and physically active lifestyle experience more improvement in pain, physical function, and self-perceived effect according to a study from researchers of NIVEL in The Netherlands.

Research also shows that maintenance of exercise behavior and physically active lifestyle after discharge of physical therapy improves the long-term effectiveness of exercise therapy in patients with knee or hip OA.  Details of the study are available online and will be published in the August print issue of Arthritis Care & Research, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology.

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The study was financially supported by the Dutch Arthritis Association