Publications by authors named "A Dell'Isola"
Course leaders in rehabilitation healthcare professionals' higher education face challenges stemming from multi-disciplinarity and the co-existence of different stakeholders. So far, the literature mainly attributed to course leaders' managerial tasks, neglecting other fundamental transversal skills. Students represent an essential source of information for understanding the expected characteristics and roles of course leaders in rehabilitation healthcare degree programmes.
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- Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a significant health problem that leads to chronic pain and decreased quality of life, with exercise being a recommended self-management strategy as there is currently no cure.
- This review evaluates the effectiveness of land-based exercise for knee OA in three ways: comparing it to control groups, to no treatment/usual care, and in combination with other interventions.
- A total of 139 randomized controlled trials involving over 12,000 participants were analyzed, focusing on outcomes like pain relief, physical function, and quality of life, with exercise interventions ranging from 2 to 104 weeks in duration.
Objective: Determine whether there is a relationship between the number of different lower-limb resistance exercises prescribed in a program and outcomes for people with knee osteoarthritis.
Methods: Systematic review with meta-regression. We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE, and Embase up to 4th January 2024.
Osteoarthritis is one of the most common musculoskeletal diseases and increases the risk of severe cardiovascular disease, like heart attack and stroke. In some individuals, osteoarthritis and cardiovascular disease will co-occur. This co-occurrence might be due to shared risk factors, for example high age, lifestyle factors and/or a shared genetic liability for the two diseases.
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