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• Comprehensive Rehabilitation Therapy Plus Glucosamine Hydrochloride for Exercise-Induced Knee Injuries and the Effect on Knee Function of Patients - Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 2022 Jun 27 - "To assess the application value of comprehensive rehabilitation therapy plus glucosamine hydrochloride for exercise-induced knee injuries and its effect on knee function ... Comprehensive rehabilitation therapy plus glucosamine hydrochloride effectively improves the clinical efficacy of exercise-induced knee joint injuries and enhances the knee joint rehabilitation of the patients" - See glucosamine hydrochloride at Amazon.com.
• Supplement cuts muscle loss in knee replacements - Science Daily, 10/25/13 - "Twenty grams of essential amino acids taken twice daily for a week before and for two weeks after knee-replacement surgeries helped 16 patients, mean age 69, recover faster and with much less muscle atrophy than a control group ... 12 members of a control group receiving 40 grams a day of a non-essential amino acid supplement, a placebo, averaged an 18.4 loss in quadriceps muscle mass in their operated leg six weeks after surgery; those getting the supplement of eight essential amino acids (EEA) averaged a 6.2 percent loss. Eighty percent of atrophy occurred in the first two weeks after surgery. Atrophy in non-operative legs was about 50 percent of that in the operative leg in both groups ... The functional measures that we looked at -- getting up out of a chair, going up a flight of stairs and going back down the stairs -- were all back to baseline in the treatment group ... a mix of histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine and valine"
• Put Those Shoes On: Running Won't Kill Your Knees - NPR, 3/28/11 - "We know from many long-term studies that running doesn't appear to cause much damage to the knees ... When we look at people with knee arthritis, we don't find much of a previous history of running, and when we look at runners and follow them over time, we don't find that their risk of developing osteoarthritis is any more than expected ... exercise, including jogging, may even be beneficial ... exercise appears to stimulate cartilage to repair to minor damage. It could be that the impact of body weight when the foot hits the ground increases production of certain proteins in the cartilage that make it stronger, he says" - Note:  I run six miles per day three times per week and swim three times per week.  I've never had knee problems.  Even my doc seems confused that I don't.

News & Research:

• Prehabilitation better prepares patients for knee replacement surgery - Science Daily, 2/2/11