Muneaki Ishijima

Additive effects of active vitamin D3 or vitamin E administration on therapeutic lower-limb home exercise for knee osteoarthritis

Background: Quadriceps weakness, inflammation, and reduced physical function are common in knee osteoarthritis (OA), and lower limb exercise therapy is an established non-pharmacological treatment. Vitamin D3 (vit D3) and vitamin E (vit E) have been proposed as adjunctive therapi...