Exercise and Knee Arthritis Pain: The science says it works.

Osteoarthritis is usually not a mechanical wear and tear process. If you have osteoarthritis, exercise will not wear out your knee joints faster — quite the opposite. Therapeutic exercise has been proven to relieve the pain of mild knee arthritis and does not harm the cartilage. This post will dive deep into the science to support why we should start to exercise to improve knee pain associated with osteoarthritis.

How many of you have been told to rest and stop running or exercising because you have knee arthritis? Far too many people believe that arthritis is caused by mechanical wear and tear. It’s only natural that you might assume that your arthritic knee pain will worsen with exercise. Too many health care professionals counsel their patients to stop running, speed walking, elliptical, treadmill, etc. to “save” their joints. Most of the time, you need to do just the opposite. The research over the years has been unequivocal.

Running may improve cartilage nutrition

Exercise has been proven to be the most effective treatment for early and moderate osteoarthritis of our joints. Exercise improves all-cause mortality and decreases your risks associated with muscle loss, frailty, sarcopenia, and so on. We are going to walk through the current research and evidence-based recommendations for…