| dc.description.abstract | Osteoarthritis (OA) is a major global public health issue. It can be harmed
the knee, hands, hip, and spine joints. Overweight and obesity are the
main risk factor for osteoarthritis. Weight loss and exercise are needed to
reduce the adverse effect of osteoarthritis. This review is purposed to find
out if dietary or exercise or both are effective to reduce the symptoms of
osteoarthritis. The review uses searching literatures method that has been
derived from PubMed database. Inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria
were using to filtered the proper articles. The results discovered that
weight loss are effective for osteoarthritis patients with higher BMI, it
minimises the knee's compressive pressures and prevented the progression
of the maximum and mean extrusion lengths. The exercise can help avoid
inflammation in OA. For both non weight bearing quadriceps improving
exercise and weight bearing functional activity enhanced the results of
pain and function over a 12-week period. Some studies suggest that
combination of dietary and exercise might help to improve quality of life
in OA patients. The Intensive Diet and Exercise for Arthritis (IDEA)
lowering knee pain significantly and also improving in clinical results. We
concluded that combination of exercise and dietary as recommended non
pharmacologic treatment of osteoarthritis. Though in some aspect dietary
only may give advantages to OA patients with overweight or obesity | en_US |
