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Osteoarthritis
Muscle, exercise and arthritis
Rehabilitation Research Unit, Physiotherapy Division, King's College London, UK
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Dr M V Hurley, King's College London, Rehabilitation Research Unit, King's Healthcare (Dulwich), East Dulwich Grove, London SE22 8PT, UK;
mike.hurley@kcl.ac.uk
The importance of (everyone) being earnest
Keywords: gluteus medius; stepping; hip; osteoarthritis; exercise; muscle
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Earnest: determined, assiduous, sincere, heartfelt, well meant, diligent, hard working, conscientious, committed. Of persons: Serious in purpose, feeling, convictions or action—for example, she made an earnest promise to do her best. Of words or actions: proceeding from intense convictions—for example, he said he would help, but I doubt whether he was in earnest.
"The way we currently manage elderly patients is inappropriate, inefficient and wasteful"
Osteoarthritis (OA) can affect all intra-articular and periarticular tissues comprising synovial joints (bone, cartilage, muscle, nerves, etc). The aetiology of OA is complex and multifactorial but, recently, muscle sensorimotor dysfunction (muscle weakness, increased fatigability, proprioceptive deficits) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of OA, by impairing neuromuscular protective mechanisms that prevent harmful abnormal joint movement, damage, and pain.1 These arguments have largely been based on studies investigating the knee and vertebral column musculature, the hip muscles have received less research attention, probably because
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