{"id":1469,"date":"2017-02-17T15:51:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T13:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2017-02-17T16:09:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:09:42","slug":"knee-osteoarthritis-management-as-a-chronic-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Knee Osteoarthritis Management as a Chronic Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/DigitalEditions\/mm1702-february-2017\/html5\/index.html\">Knee Osteoarthritis Management as a Chronic Disease &#8211; MM1702<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comprehensive and multidisciplinary osteoarthritis (OA) management involves a combined approach of<br \/>\nnonpharmacological and pharmacological treatment to improve pain and function. All patients with OA should<br \/>\nengage in exercise and neuromuscular training. Weight reduction in overweight or obese patients can improve<br \/>\nphysical function and pain by up to 50% in weight-bearing joints. Regular education\/advice and monitoring are key<br \/>\nto patients\u2019 long-term maintenance of physical activity and weight reduction. Choice of analgesia requires careful<br \/>\nconsideration of risk versus benefit and proven efficacy. Arthroscopic surgery is not indicated for treating pain<br \/>\nassociated with knee OA. Referral to an orthopaedic surgeon should be considered in patients with knee OA<br \/>\nwho have severe symptoms and functional decline and have failed conservative management.<\/p>\n<p><em>Modern Medicine &#8211; February 2017<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knee Osteoarthritis Management as a Chronic Disease &#8211; MM1702 Comprehensive and multidisciplinary osteoarthritis (OA) management involves a combined approach of nonpharmacological and pharmacological treatment to improve&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_content_id":"","beyondwords_preview_token":"","beyondwords_player_content":"","beyondwords_player_style":"","beyondwords_language_code":"","beyondwords_language_id":"","beyondwords_title_voice_id":"","beyondwords_body_voice_id":"","beyondwords_summary_voice_id":"","beyondwords_error_message":"","beyondwords_disabled":"","beyondwords_delete_content":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","beyondwords_hash":"","publish_post_to_speechkit":"","speechkit_hash":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":"","speechkit_error_message":"","speechkit_disabled":"","speechkit_access_key":"","speechkit_error":"","speechkit_info":"","speechkit_response":"","speechkit_retries":"","speechkit_status":"","speechkit_updated_at":"","_speechkit_link":"","_speechkit_text":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arthritis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5REYo-nH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}