Patients use fewer analgesics following supervised exercise therapy and patient education: an observational study of 16 499 patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis.
Jonas Bloch ThorlundEwa M RoosPatricia GoroEmily Gromelsky LjungcrantzDorte Thalund GrønneSøren Thorgaard SkouPublished in: British journal of sports medicine (2020)
Among patients with knee or hip OA using analgesics, more than half either discontinued analgesic use or shifted to lower risk analgesics following an 8-week structured exercise therapy and patient education programme (GLA:D). These data encourage randomised controlled trial evaluation of whether supervised exercise therapy, combined with patient education, can reduce analgesic use, including opioids, among patients with knee and hip OA pain.
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