A joint venture: patients' experiences with goal setting in rheumatology rehabilitation - a qualitative study.

Purpose: To explore how patients with rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) perceive participation in the goal setting process prior to interdisciplinary rehabilitation.

Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 22 participants admitted to an interdisciplinary rehabilitation stay for patients with RMDs at two Danish rehabilitation centres. Qualitative content analysis was applied.

An invigorating journey towards better function and well-being: A qualitative study of knee osteoarthritis patients' experiences with an online exercise and education intervention.

Objective: To explore what it means for patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) to engage in online delivered exercise and education.

Method: We combined participant observations and focus group interviews with knee OA patients who engaged in an 8-week program (12 exercise sessions and 2 education sessions) delivered online. Data underwent a three-level phenomenological-hermeneutic interpretation inspired by Ricoeur's narrative and interpretation theory.

Experiences in responders and non-responders to pulmonary rehabilitation among people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a clinical study with convergent mixed analysis.

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the experienced and measured development in physical capacity in people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) undergoing a standard pulmonary rehabilitation programme with a focus on the diverging experiences of responders and non-responders.

Methods: Twenty-one participants in standard pulmonary rehabilitation were included in the study. We measured the participants' change in the six-minute walk test (6MWT) during rehabilitation participation.

An 8-Week Neuromuscular Exercise Program for Patients With Mild to Moderate Knee Osteoarthritis: A Case Series Drawn From a Registered Clinical Trial.

Objective:   To describe the feasibility of a neuromuscular exercise (NEMEX) program in patients with mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis (KOA).

Background:   Neuromuscular exercise has been increasingly used in patients with osteoarthritis to achieve sensorimotor control and improved daily function.

Treatment:   A study of the first 23 physically active patients (11 men, 12 women; age range = 48-70 years) who had mild to moderate KOA and were undergoing an 8-week, twice-weekly program, consisting of 11 exercises with 3 to 4 levels of difficulty, as part of an ongoing randomized controlled trial.

The effect on knee-joint load of instruction in analgesic use compared with neuromuscular exercise in patients with knee osteoarthritis: study protocol for a randomized, single-blind, controlled trial (the EXERPHARMA trial).

Background: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a mechanically driven disease, and it is suggested that medial tibiofemoral knee-joint load increases with pharmacologic pain relief, indicating that pharmacologic pain relief may be positively associated with disease progression. Treatment modalities that can both relieve pain and reduce knee-joint load would be preferable. The knee-joint load is influenced by functional alignment of the trunk, pelvis, and lower-limb segments with respect to the knee, as well as the ground-reaction force generated during movement.

Increased neck muscle activity and impaired balance among females with whiplash-related chronic neck pain: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: To investigate neck muscle activity and postural control in patients with whiplash-associated disorder compared with healthy controls.

Design: Cross-sectional study with convenience sampling.

Subjects: Ten females with whiplash-associated disorder (age 37.