Nearly two thirds of women over the age of 50 in the UK are suffering from knee pain. A new study looking at the patterns of knee pain over the last twelve years in almost 500 participants found that almost half of women experienced osteoarthritic pain.
The participants in the study were considered to be representative of the general population in terms of height, weight, and whether or not they are a smoker. The researchers found that those women with a higher BMI were more likely to experience persistent pain alongside those women who had a previous knee injury.
It is thought that osteoarthritis costs the UK £3.2 billion in loss of productivity every year. Treatments have traditionally focused on surgical procedures such as total or partial knee replacement although new, innovative treatments such as AposTherapy focus on rehabilitation and revised gait patterns to alleviate the pain.
