Muscular and Functional Capacity in Subjects Under Treatment for Knee Osteoarthritis: Role of Physical Activity Status

Isokinetic testing of muscle strength in older adults with knee osteoarthritis: An integrative review

“…Numerous studies have documented significant increases in knee strength after exercise interventions [11,15,16,27,42,43,47,52,[54][55][56][57][58][59][60]64,73,78,80,82,85,87,89,90,[96][97][98]121,129,135] including strength-/power training [27,47,55,56,80,82,85,89,90,121,135], isokinetic exercise [47,52,[57][58][59]64,73,78,98,…”

Home confinement during COVID-19 pandemic reduced physical activity but not health-related quality of life in previously active older women

“…Although differences in age of the population and in study design may not be discharged as reasons for the lower physical activity reduction in the present than previous studies 4, 13 , the fact that participants of present study were physically active and participated in an educational program to promote healthy behaviors prior to pandemic should be considered. Educational programs promoting healthy behaviors has shown to be effective in improving physical activity 15,16 . Thus, it is possible that the participation in the educational program prior to COVID-19 pandemic may be attenuated the walking and moderate-intensity activity reduction in the present study.…”

Improved function and strength in patients with knee osteoarthritis as a result of adding a two-day educational program to usual care. Prospective randomized trial

“…When compared to improvements that are provided by TKA [ 47 ], at 12 months, 42 of the 95 patients in the IG reached the MIC (a change in the score beyond which an individual is considered to have a clinical change provided by TKA) for the WOMAC total, whereas 21 patients had reached the MIC in the CG at this point. We believe that our significant results were due to the following factors: 1 – the patients were completely ignorant of the disease and self-management; 2 - patients had a team of professionals (physicians, a nutritionist, physical therapists, physical educators, occupational therapists, psychologists and social workers) repeating the same messages to aid with initial compliance [ 70 , 71 ]; and 3 - the program emphasized optimal exercise practices, beginning with physical therapy, but aiming for more intense physical fitness practices [ 34 , 69 , 72 ].…”