Managing Osteoarthritis: The Effectiveness of Pain Medication with and without Exercise

Managing Osteoarthritis: The Effectiveness of Pain Medication with and without Exercise

Osteoarthritis is an ever-increasing condition we see at our practice

Do you have osteoarthritis? Heres what research says about pain medication with and without exercise

That is why I loved this research into looking at patients who JUST take medication versus doing exercise therapy

They concluded that pain medication use patients versus patients who did exercises had small and probably not clinically important differences

So when it comes to managing your OA, speak to our team about what exercise you could be doing!

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They contain health advice for your conditions, nutritional advice, and exercises for you to do at home or at the workplace to help you achieve your health goals.

We understand that coming to the Chiropractic clinic may be costly and time-consuming.

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- things to do and things to avoid

- nutrition advice

- all the stretches that are needed to help

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Reference

Does pain medication use influence the outcome of 8 weeks of education and exercise therapy in patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis? An observational study.

Koes BW, Chiarotto A, Thorlund JB, Grønne DT, Roos EM, Skou ST. Pain Med. 2022 Jan 6. pii: pnab352. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnab352.

Results

Among the included patients, 62% were pain medication users and 38% were non-users. Among the pain medications users, 35% were classified as paracetamol users, 54% as NSAID users, and 11% as opioid users. Medication users and non-users differed regarding a higher pain intensity, poorer physical and mental health. Pain medication use before and during the education and exercise program was associated with the pain intensity at 3 months follow-up. However, patients either using or not using pain medications improved over time, and the magnitude of the difference between patient groups was small (less than 10 mm on a 0–100 scale).

Conclusions

Pain medication use is weakly associated with outcome at 3 months follow up in OA-patients receiving an education and exercise program. Between-group differences, however, are small and probably not clinically important.