Lose Weight and Exercise to Reduce Knee Pain

When your knees hurt, the last thing you feel like doing is putting on a pair of cross trainers and heading out for a walk.

But that might just be part of the answer to finding relief.

Losing weight combined with exercise reduces pain and helps people who have knee osteoarthritis regain some of their mobility, according to research from Wake Forest University.

In fact, moderate exercise and staying on a diet long-term helped study participants improve mobility and reduce pain by as much as 50 percent, according to the Intensive Diet and Exercise for Arthritis trial.

The study included more than 450 overweight adults who have pain caused by osteoarthritis.