diakonsyk.no Background Hand exercises are recommended for patients with hand osteoarthritis (HOA), though evidence for their effect is conflicting. Objective To evaluate, in a randomised controlled ...

Many non-pharmacological treatments, including patient education, assistive technology, splinting, therapeutic exercises and physical therapies, has been used to treat patients with hand OA. This ...

Data sources Embase, PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science and Scopus were searched for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) examining the effect of exercise for OA from inception to 20 November ...