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A randomised trial comparing aerobic exercise and resistance exercise with a health education program in older adults with knee osteoarthritis
— the Fitness Arthritis and Senior Trial (FAST) | | Author(s) | Walter H Ettinger, Robert Burns, Stephen P Messier |
| Journal title | JAMA, (Journal of the American Medical Association), vol 277, no 1, 1 January 1997 |
| Pages | pp 25-31 |
| Keywords | Exercise ; Preventative medicine ; Physical capacity ; Arthritis ; Physical disabilities ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Fitness and Arthritis in Seniors Trial (FAST) was undertaken to define the role of exercise as an intervention for knee arthritis. The trial's purpose was to determine whether two types of exercise (aerobic and resistance) improved self-reported disability, physical performance, and pain in older people with physical disability from knee arthritis over an 18-month period. Subjects were 439 American over 60s living at home, of whom 365 (85%) completed the trial. Overall compliance with the exercise prescription was 68% in the aerobic training group, and 70% in the resistance training group. Those prescribed an exercise programme had modest improvements in measures of disability, physical performance, and pain from participating in either of the two programmes. These data suggest that exercise should be prescribed as part of the treatment for knee osteoarthritis. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991223019 A |
| Classmark | CEA: LK2: BI: CLA: BN: 48: 7T * |
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