In hip osteoarthritis, Nordic Walking is superior to strength training and home-based exercise for improving function

Preoperative progressive explosive-type resistance training is feasible and effective in patients with hip osteoarthritis scheduled for total hip arthroplasty – a randomized controlled trial

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Improvements in Functional Capacity from Nordic Walking: A Randomized Controlled Trial among Older Adults

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Exercise for osteoarthritis of the knee: a Cochrane systematic review

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Intra-rater reliability and agreement of muscle strength, power and functional performance measures in patients with hip osteoarthritis

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Exercise and Manual Physiotherapy Arthritis Research Trial (EMPART) for Osteoarthritis of the Hip: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

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Dose–response relationships between physical activity, walking and health-related quality of life in mid-age and older women

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A Comparison of 3 Methodological Approaches to Defining Major Clinically Important Improvement of 4 Performance Measures in Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis

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Walking and chair rising performed in the daily life situation before and after total hip arthroplasty

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Supervised and non-supervised Nordic walking in the treatment of chronic low back pain: a single blind randomized clinical trial

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A pragmatic randomized controlled study of the effectiveness and cost consequences of exercise therapy in hip osteoarthritis

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Concurrent and prospective associations between physical activity, walking and mental health in older women

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Efficacy of patient education and supervised exercise vs patient education alone in patients with hip osteoarthritis: a single blind randomized clinical trial

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One in four people may develop symptomatic hip osteoarthritis in his or her lifetime

(2010) L.B. Murphy et al.   OSTEOARTHRITIS AND CARTILAGE

Nordic Walking does not reduce the loading of the knee joint

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Empirical evidence of bias in treatment effect estimates in controlled trials with different interventions and outcomes: meta-epidemiological study

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