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The effect on knee-joint load of instruction in analgesic use compared with neuromuscular exercise in patients with knee osteoarthritis: study protocol for a randomized, single-blind, controlled trial (the EXERPHARMA trial)

BACKGROUND: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a mechanically driven disease, and it is suggested that medial tibiofemoral knee-joint load increases with pharmacologic pain relief, indicating that pharmacologic pain relief may be positively associated with disease progression. Treatment modalities that can...

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Autores principales: Clausen, Brian, Holsgaard-Larsen, Anders, Søndergaard, Jens, Christensen, Robin, Andriacchi, Thomas P, Roos, Ewa M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25399048
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-444