Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Exercise therapy for the management of osteoarthritis of the hip joint: a systematic review. | Available online http content 11 3 R98 Research article Exercise therapy for the management of osteoarthritis of the hip joint a systematic review Peter J McNair Marion A Simmonds Mark G Boocock and Peter J Larmer Open Access Health and Rehabilitation Research Centre Auckland University of Technology Private Bag 92006 Auckland 1020 New Zealand Corresponding author Peter J McNair Received 1 Dec 2008 Revisions requested 18 Jan 2009 Revisions received 28 May 2009 Accepted 25 Jun 2009 Published 25 Jun 2009 Arthritis Research Therapy 2009 11 R98 doi ar2743 This article is online at http content 11 3 R98 2009 McNair et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Recent guidelines pertaining to exercise for individuals with osteoarthritis have been released. These guidelines have been based primarily on studies of knee-joint osteoarthritis. The current study was focused on the hip joint which has different biomechanical features and risk factors for osteoarthritis and has received much less attention in the literature. The purpose was to conduct a systematic review of the literature to evaluate the exercise programs used in intervention studies focused solely on hip-joint osteoarthritis to decide whether their exercise regimens met the new guidelines and to determine the level of support for exercise-therapy interventions in the management of hip-joint osteoarthritis. Methods A systematic literature search of 14 electronic databases was undertaken to identify interventions that used exercise therapy as a treatment modality for hip osteoarthritis. The quality of each article was critically appraised and graded according to .
