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Exercise therapy reduces pain and improves physical function in patients with osteoarthritis.

If you have osteoarthritis, therapeutic exercise can help reduce your pain and improve your ability to function physically.

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Based on a meta-analysis of 32 RCTs, land-based therapeutic exercise improved self-reported pain and self-reported physical function in patients with knee osteoarthritis
Urho M. Kujala · British Journal of Sports Medicine · 2009

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Based on meta-analysis of 32 RCTs.

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Evidence on the effects of exercise therapy in the treatment of chronic disease

Urho M. Kujala · British Journal of Sports Medicine · 2009

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