Regular walking exercise prior to knee osteoarthritis reduces joint pain in an animal model

• Junya Sakamoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junya Sakamoto, Syouta Miyahara, Satoko Motokawa, Ayumi Takahashi, Ryo Sasaki, Yuichiro Honda, Minoru Okita

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jun-saka@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences (Health Sciences), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Physical Therapy Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5621-2756

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• Syouta Miyahara ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junya Sakamoto, Syouta Miyahara, Satoko Motokawa, Ayumi Takahashi, Ryo Sasaki, Yuichiro Honda, Minoru Okita

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Japan Organization of Occupational Health and Safety, Spinal Injuries Center, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Satoko Motokawa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junya Sakamoto, Syouta Miyahara, Satoko Motokawa, Ayumi Takahashi, Ryo Sasaki, Yuichiro Honda, Minoru Okita

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Services, Nagasaki Rehabilitation Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Ayumi Takahashi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junya Sakamoto, Syouta Miyahara, Satoko Motokawa, Ayumi Takahashi, Ryo Sasaki, Yuichiro Honda, Minoru Okita

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences (Health Sciences), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Physical Therapy Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Ryo Sasaki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junya Sakamoto, Syouta Miyahara, Satoko Motokawa, Ayumi Takahashi, Ryo Sasaki, Yuichiro Honda, Minoru Okita

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Physical Therapy Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Rehabilitation, Juzenkai Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Yuichiro Honda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junya Sakamoto, Syouta Miyahara, Satoko Motokawa, Ayumi Takahashi, Ryo Sasaki, Yuichiro Honda, Minoru Okita

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences (Health Sciences), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Physical Therapy Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Minoru Okita

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junya Sakamoto, Syouta Miyahara, Satoko Motokawa, Ayumi Takahashi, Ryo Sasaki, Yuichiro Honda, Minoru Okita

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences (Health Sciences), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Physical Therapy Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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