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Exercise as medicine to be prescribed in osteoarthritis
Inactivity contributes to chronic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disorders, and obesity. Sedentary habits can shorten life expectancy. Exercise has been widely proposed as a valuable approach to prevention. Regular physical activity, as part of one’s daily routine, may he...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6650634/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31363456 http://dx.doi.org/10.5312/wjo.v10.i7.262 |
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author | Ravalli, Silvia Castrogiovanni, Paola Musumeci, Giuseppe |
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description | Inactivity contributes to chronic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disorders, and obesity. Sedentary habits can shorten life expectancy. Exercise has been widely proposed as a valuable approach to prevention. Regular physical activity, as part of one’s daily routine, may help to manage pathological conditions. This editorial especially addresses osteoarthritis (OA), a degenerative disease of the articular cartilage, which is one of the most common causes of disability worldwide. Standard treatments for this illness include surgical procedures and pharmacological management; behavioural approaches are also strongly recommended. Physical exercise represents a practical strategy to preserve function, decrease pain and fatigue, and increase muscle strength and flexibility. We suggest that physical activity be considered as an established form of treatment, which means including exercise in standard therapeutic guidelines. A growing number of patients suffer from preventable chronic conditions that impose a heavy social and economic burden on the healthcare system. Preventive exercise training should be prescribed in the same way as pharmaceuticals. |
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spelling | pubmed-66506342019-07-30 Exercise as medicine to be prescribed in osteoarthritis Ravalli, Silvia Castrogiovanni, Paola Musumeci, Giuseppe World J Orthop Editorial Inactivity contributes to chronic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disorders, and obesity. Sedentary habits can shorten life expectancy. Exercise has been widely proposed as a valuable approach to prevention. Regular physical activity, as part of one’s daily routine, may help to manage pathological conditions. This editorial especially addresses osteoarthritis (OA), a degenerative disease of the articular cartilage, which is one of the most common causes of disability worldwide. Standard treatments for this illness include surgical procedures and pharmacological management; behavioural approaches are also strongly recommended. Physical exercise represents a practical strategy to preserve function, decrease pain and fatigue, and increase muscle strength and flexibility. We suggest that physical activity be considered as an established form of treatment, which means including exercise in standard therapeutic guidelines. A growing number of patients suffer from preventable chronic conditions that impose a heavy social and economic burden on the healthcare system. Preventive exercise training should be prescribed in the same way as pharmaceuticals. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2019-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6650634/ /pubmed/31363456 http://dx.doi.org/10.5312/wjo.v10.i7.262 Text en ©The Author(s) 2019. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. |
spellingShingle | Editorial Ravalli, Silvia Castrogiovanni, Paola Musumeci, Giuseppe Exercise as medicine to be prescribed in osteoarthritis |
title | Exercise as medicine to be prescribed in osteoarthritis |
title_full | Exercise as medicine to be prescribed in osteoarthritis |
title_fullStr | Exercise as medicine to be prescribed in osteoarthritis |
title_full_unstemmed | Exercise as medicine to be prescribed in osteoarthritis |
title_short | Exercise as medicine to be prescribed in osteoarthritis |
title_sort | exercise as medicine to be prescribed in osteoarthritis |
topic | Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6650634/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31363456 http://dx.doi.org/10.5312/wjo.v10.i7.262 |
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