Sixty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Laporte was diagnosed with knee arthritis 15 years ago. For years, she kept the pain under control with steroid injections and physical therapy, but when she began to ...

A recent meta-analysis examined 217 trials involving 15,684 participants and six types of exercise to manage knee ...

Any joint can become arthritic, but the most commonly affected areas of the body are the knees, hands, hips, feet and lower back - getty For many of us, aches and pains, sore joints and stiffness are ...

A knee brace appears to be one of the more effective ways to treat the pain - as well as improve function and stiffness - from osteoarthritis, the common degenerative process where the cartilage ...

Your knee is a complex piece of equipment: Bones, cartilage, ligaments, tendons, and muscles meet at or help to form the knee, and any of these could be involved in knee pain. "There are a number of ...

A minimally invasive procedure may reduce symptoms of knee osteoarthritis, results of a German retrospective single-center study suggested. In patients with moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis that ...

Weight loss can be a beneficial and conservative approach to treating patients who are overweight or obese and have knee OA. Weight loss can improve knee pain and overall function and quality of life.

A new placebo-controlled trial suggests that low-dose radiation therapy may ease knee pain safely, offering an alternative to ...

For patients with knee osteoarthritis, aerobic activities such as walking, cycling or swimming are likely to be the best ...

People who rupture their ACL have a 8.2 fold greater risk of knee osteoarthritis within 11 years. A new study finds evidence that the less weight and force people put on their injured knee after ...

Obesity is a serious health problem that increases a patient’s risk for many chronic conditions, including joint pain and knee OA. In 2018, the prevalence of obesity in the United States was 42.4%. 8 ...