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Physical Therapy, Exercise Advances for Knee Osteoarthritis

Kelli D. Allen, PhD, Yvonne M. Golightly, PT, MS, PhD, and Bryan Heiderscheit, PT, PhD  |  Issue: May 2015  |  

Kelli D. Allen, PhDKelli D. Allen, PhD, is a research professor at the Thurston Arthritis Research Center & Department of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a research health scientist at the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the VA Medical Center in Durham, N.C.

Yvonne M. Golightly, PT, MS, PhDYvonne M. Golightly, PT, MS, PhD, is a research assistant professor at the Thurston Arthritis Research Center & Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Bryan Heiderscheit, PT, PhDBryan Heiderscheit, PT, PhD, is a professor in the departments of Orthopedics & Rehabilitation and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and co-director of the university’s Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory.

Reference

  1. Brooks MA, Beaulieu JE, Severson HH, et al. Web-based therapeutic exercise resource center as a treatment for knee osteoarthritis: A prospective cohort pilot study. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2014 May 17;15:158. doi: 10.1186/1471-2474-15-158.

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