Pain in the News: "Running does not lead to knee osteoarthritis, may protect people from developing disease, experts say"

Pain in the News: "Running does not lead to knee osteoarthritis, may protect people from developing disease, experts say"

23 November 2014

"Running as a habitual exercise at any stage in life not only does not increase a person's risk of developing knee osteoarthritis and may even help protect a person from developing the painful disease, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Boston".

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Paper Number: 2895  American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting - Boston 14th - 19th November 2014

Habitual Running Any Time in Life Is Not Detrimental and May be Protective of Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative

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