You can reduce knee pains at home by 1/3 – 1/2 with exercises or balance trainings but the combo does not add anything to it.
1. J Sports Sci Med. 2012 Dec 1;11(4):751-8.
Efficacy of home-based kinesthesia, balance & agility exercise training among persons with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis.
Rogers MW, Tamulevicius N, Semple SJ, Krkeljas Z.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24150088
- Single-blind, block randomized placebo controlled clinical trial with four interventions
- Included:
Controls
Reistance training:
“RT participants were trained to use Thera-Band ® non-latex elastic resistance bands (The Hygenic Corporation, Akron, OH, USA) to perform a single 15-repetitionset of lower extremity exercises with each leg as detailed
in Table 3.”
Kinesthesia, balance & agility exercise training”
results:
Comment – Groups were not very equal for pain levels prior so have no idea where control would actually be. Looks to me better to stick to resistance training but if getting married soon, might want to use the “wedding march” exercises..