| Weight loss contributes to reduced knee pain - study findings |
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| Wednesday, 15 November 2006 | |
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The study also found that the improved quality of life experienced by the participants was sufficient to motivate the participants to maintain their lower body weight. "Doctors can now tell their patients they will feel better if you only lose a little weight," Haaz said. The study participants met weekly over a four month period and the meetings were structured around ways for the participants to learn how to control calories, how to make their lives more physically active, and how to develop strategies for weight loss "The concern was that they would regain the weight and be as badly off as before," Haaz said. But a year after the study, the participants had, on average, regained just 5.5 pounds, remaining significantly below (P<0.05) their baseline weight, and the improvements on the pain measurement score (SF-36) were maintained. The weight loss was also associated with improved blood pressure among the study participants. "The better they felt at the end of the program, the more likely they were to be able to keep the weight off," Haaz said. |
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