What is it, what can you do for it. Clue: Exercise!

1. Description and Images
Osteoarthritis

2. What is it?
 Chronic disease
 Breakdown of cartilage, causing pain
as bones rub together
 Can damage ligaments, menisci and
muscles

3. Two types
 Primary (associate with aging & wear
and tear)
 Secondary (can develop early in life,
result of injury or obesity)

4. Symptoms
 Pain
 Tenderness
 Stiffness
 Loss of flexibility
 Grating sensation
 Bone spurs

5. Risk factors
 Age
 Sex (women more likely)
 Bone deformities
 Joint injuries
 Obesity
 Occupations (repetitive stress)
 Other diseases (diabetes, thyroid,
gout)

6. Exercise
 Exercise is the best thing you can do!
 Combination of moderate intensity
exercise regime of strength training
and aerobic like cycling, walking or
swimming

7. Benefits of exercise
 Decreased inflammation
 Decreased pain and symptoms
 Improved mobility and functional
capacity with reduced fall risk
 Decreased risk of diabetes,
cardiovascular disease and cancers

8. Best resistance type exercises
(According to Research)
 Supine hip abduction
 Prone hip extension
 Sitting hip flexion
 Sitting knee extension

9. Supine hip extension

10. Prone hip extension

11. Sitting hip flexion

12. Sitting knee extension

13. Pictures of OA…General

14. More pictures (specific)

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