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Do Certain Biomarkers Accurately Reflect Articular Cartilage Change Due To Physical Activity?, Alyssia Evans, Matthew Seeley
Do Certain Biomarkers Accurately Reflect Articular Cartilage Change Due To Physical Activity?, Alyssia Evans, Matthew Seeley
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Knee injury and pathology are common problems for Americans who are physically active; they affect half of all Americans who are over the age of 65, and the related annual costs are nearly twenty billion dollars. Knee pain alters running and walking neuromechanics1, and may be deleterious to knee articular cartilage. Researchers have hypothesized that if abnormal gait mechanics, due to knee pain persist, the resulting mechanical and physiological circumstances could influence genesis and progression rate of chronic knee joint pathologies, including knee osteoarthritis.