People with low lower-limb muscle mass should consider non–weight-bearing physical activities, along with strengthening exercises, to potentially reduce their risk of developing knee OA.
in a large prospective cohort study in the Netherlands, but notably, the increased risk was seen only in those with low levels of lower-limb muscle mass.
Walking, gardening, golf, dancing, and ball sports were among the activities qualifying as weight-bearing activities. Non–weight-bearing activities included cycling, rowing, and swimming. Coauthor Joyce B.J. van Meurs, PhD, of the Departments of Internal Medicine and Orthopedics & Sports Medicine at Erasmus Medical Center, told this news organization that"pain as a subjective, recurrent symptom is more difficult to study… a larger sample size or more precise measurements in future studies would help to better understand the true association" of symptomatic knee OA and physical activity.
It is possible that thigh muscle-specific strength or mass may temper the risk of knee OA, they wrote, but the lack of thigh strength data in the Rotterdam Study precluded such evaluation. Still, in everyday practice, the researchers noted, lower-limb muscle function could be assessed using thigh circumference.
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