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Knee osteoarthritis: does physiotherapy help?

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boxed-textBennell KL et al. (2005) Efficacy of physiotherapy management of knee joint osteoarthritis: a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial. Ann Rheum Dis 64: 906–912

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