{"id":138215,"date":"2025-10-22T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138215\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:01:08","slug":"the-most-effective-endurance-sports-to-alleviate-pain-caused-by-knee-osteoarthritis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138215\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Effective Endurance Sports to Alleviate Pain Caused by Knee Osteoarthritis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SadaNews &#8211; The website &#8220;Abonit.de&#8221; reported that individuals suffering from knee osteoarthritis often experience pain, limited movement, as well as swelling and a grinding sound, noting that exercise can significantly alleviate symptoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The site, which serves as the official portal for German pharmacists, added that a new analysis of international studies shows that endurance sports such as walking, swimming, and cycling are not only safe but also the most effective in relieving pain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Broad Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A research team confirmed this through a broad review; researchers analyzed 217 studies published between 1990 and 2024, involving over 15,000 affected individuals, and identified a variety of sports treatments, namely:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Endurance training (aerobic training).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Flexibility training.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Muscle strengthening training.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Neuromuscular exercises to improve coordination and balance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Mixed training.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The team examined the extent of improvement in pain, joint function, walking performance, and quality of life. Participants&#8217; conditions were assessed after 4 weeks (short-term effects), 12 weeks (medium-term effects), and 24 weeks (long-term effects).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Analysis Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The analysis yielded the following results:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Endurance sports such as walking, swimming, and cycling had a positive impact on pain, walking performance, and quality of life even in the short term, followed by an improvement in joint function.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Muscle strengthening training and their combination: both had a positive effect on joint function in the medium term.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Neuromuscular exercises: showed improvement in walking performance in the short term.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Safety was also addressed; one analysis confirmed the good safety profile of exercise therapy, with no increase in side effects compared to the control group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is worth noting that knee osteoarthritis is a chronic degenerative disease that occurs due to wear and tear in the knee joint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SadaNews &#8211; The website &#8220;Abonit.de&#8221; reported that individuals suffering from knee osteoarthritis often experience pain, limited movement, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[18,525,135,19,17,81913,81912,81914,55399,75303,79046,26993],"class_list":{"0":"post-138215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-fitness","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-81913","14":"tag-81912","15":"tag-81914","16":"tag-55399","17":"tag-75303","18":"tag-79046","19":"tag-26993"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}