Losing weight is knee pain management
Published on May 8, 2015.
Researchers recognize that catch-22 that effect knee osteoarthritis patients who battle obesity. The knee pain makes them inactive which leads to weight gain and the weight gain leads to greater pain in the knee.
“Being obese or overweight, the quality of the diet, severe pain, and severe dysfunction are significantly associated with physical inactivity in adults with knee osteoarthritis. ” (1)However new research is more troubling, doctors say that being obese leads to a catabolic breakdown of meniscal tissue. (2)
How much of quality life is lost to patients with knee pain? To obesity? To a combination of knee pain and obesity?
Researchers writing in the Annals of Internal Medicine sought to answer these questions. They looked at subjects between the ages of 50 and 84 and sought to estimate quality-adjusted life-years lost due to obesity and knee osteoarthritis and health benefits of reducing obesity prevalence to levels observed in the 1990′s when obesity was much less prevalent.
Three and a half lost years to pain and obesity
Here is what they found: Non-obese patients with knee pain from osteoarthritis – almost 1.9 years quality life-years lost. For patients with both osteoarthritis knee pain and obesity 3.5 years of quality life lost.
Amazingly the researchers found that if physicians tackled the problems of obesity in osteoarthritis knee pain “findings suggested that reversing obesity prevalence to levels seen 10 years ago would avert 178,071 cases of coronary heart disease, 889,872 cases of diabetes, and 111,206 total knee replacements.” (3)
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