More evidence is emerging about beating the painful conditions of Osteoarthritis with regular exercise routines. This should be good news for the struggling NHS service who are being forced to make drastic cuts to their spending.
With the estimated costs associated with osteoarthritis running into the billions of dollars in the USA and the hundreds of millions of pounds in the UK it would be comforting to know that some 'free' self treatment could manage the pain of osteoarthritis. The disease which has effected humans since the beginning of civilisation , although only now are reported cases rising so greatly.
The Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in NYC will be presenting a study to show how exercise could reduce symptomatic pain at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology / Association
of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ACR/ARHP), Nov. 9-14 2012,
in Washington D.C.
The year long programme run at the hospital asked participants pre and post a regular weekly yoga / taiqi / pilates style programme for feedback on their quality of life. Sandra Goldsmith, director of the Public and Patient Education Department at HSS said, “When participants were asked to report their level of pain severity,
there were statistically significant reductions in pain from pre- to
post-test. Pain is a huge factor in quality of life."
Balance improvements were also improved; “We asked participants to rate their balance, and we found a
statistically significant increase in those who rated their balance as
excellent, very good or good, from pre- to post-intervention, ” said
Dana Friedman MPH, Public Health Outcomes Manager at HSS; "Fewer respondents reported falling from pre- to
post-test (14.5% vs. 13.1%), as well as sustaining injuries that
required hospitalization (12.1% vs. 10.6%).
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