Evidence showing the positive impact of physical activity on fatigue in symptomatic osteoarthritis is encouraging but limited, according to a speaker at the 2022 OARSI World Congress.
“Fatigue is a common nonspecific symptom experienced by nearly half of all patients with osteoarthritis,» Céline Labie, MSc, of the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Research Group in the department of rehabilitation sciences at KU Leuven in Belgium, said in her presentation.
She suggested that a growing body of evidence has shown fatigue to be a significant barrier to physical activity in this patient