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If Diagnosed with Osteoarthritis of the Knee, What Can I Do to Keep it from Getting Worse?

If Diagnosed with Osteoarthritis of the Knee, What Can I Do to Keep it from Getting Worse? (0:30)

Weight loss, muscle strength and limiting high-impact activity can keep osteoarthritis from getting worse, says Andrew Feldman, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at NYU Langone Medical Center. Learn more in this video.

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Weight loss is very important, I mean again like having a car where you got cylinders and bricks all over the place the tyres are going to wear and you are going to have less impact on that knee. So weight loss is very important, muscle strain and bio mechanical balancing is extremely important, and picking your poison is not it terms of activity, you probably not a good candidate to go climbing Mt.

Everest.