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The effect of religious practice on the prevalence of knee osteoarthritis
Clinical Rheumatology, 10/22/09
Chokkhanchitchai S et al. – Muslims had a lower prevalence of OA than their Buddhists counterparts with the same ethnicity but different religious practice. The Muslim way of praying since childhood, forcing the knees into deep flexion, may stretch the soft tissue surrounding the knee and decrease stiffness and contact pressure of the articular cartilage.
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