Encouraging news for walkers per NYT article

[Gadflyparexcellence]

A New Study Points to a Surprisingly Simple Way to Ward Off Knee Pain

Encouraging new research suggests walking could help prevent new bouts of knee pain in people with osteoarthritis.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Priscilla NC]

A New Study Points to a Surprisingly Simple Way to Ward Off Knee Pain

Encouraging new research suggests walking could help prevent new bouts of knee pain in people with osteoarthritis.

www.nytimes.com

Paywall.

 

[Sheesh]

Paywall for me too. I wonder if this might be the study that the NYTimes article references:

Walking towards healthier knees

A new study published today in Arthritis & Rheumatology led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reveals that walking for exercise can reduce new...

www.bcm.edu

 

[trecile]

Here's a link that everyone should be able to use.

A New Study Points to a Surprisingly Simple Way to Ward Off Knee Pain

Encouraging new research suggests walking could help prevent new bouts of knee pain in people with osteoarthritis.

www.nytimes.com

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[JabbaPapa]

They've been trying to push this narrative for a while, but really walking both helps and harms - - most osteoarthritis is from mechanical erosion of one's cartilage, so that more walking will tend to worsen that ; but OTOH, walking strengthens ones muscles, and may if you do it properly reduce body weight, which will both help get better knee support, despite the diminished cartilage.

But the suggestion to just walk, as if treatment were some sort of negative, is a very unhelpful contribution from the news agencies.