Weight Loss & Osteoarthritis
The PICOT question addressed in this proposed study focuses on an examination of the influence of weight loss counseling and implementation of a physical exercise regimen on the reported osteoarthritis symptoms of obese patients with a BMI greater than 25. The proposed evidence-based study would extend the research that indicates that brief, in-office weight loss sessions conducted by their physicians contributes to patients' implementation of physical exercise regimens or increased daily activity. The subjects in the proposed research differ from those in earlier investigations in that they are suffer from osteoarthritis and are obese.
Despite the fact that activity across the day and physical exercise provide some protective benefits to people who are obese, many people are not physically active and do not maintain an exercise regimen. Research on the benefits of an active live has extended to overweight people who have also managed to become fit without a substantive loss in excess weight (McInnis, et al., 2003). However, for people suffering from osteoarthritis, the issue is not simply to become fitter, as evidence by muscle strength and cardio system performance (McInnis, et al., 2003). Absolute weight remains a problem for obese people as their joints continue to be overtaxed by...
EBP Evidence-based practice model EBP project issue: Obesity "The prevalence of obesity (BMI > 30) has been increasing; currently; at least 27% of the adult population is obese" (McTigue 2003: vii). Despite being one of the most pervasive health problems in modernity, there is relatively little information on obesity available in the annals of evidence-based medicine. This may be due to the fact that obesity is such a complex and multifactorial disease, without
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