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Available online /content/11/3/R98 Research article Open Access Vol 11 No 3 Exercise therapy for the management of osteoarthritis of the hip joint: a systematic review Peter J McNair, Marion A Simmonds, Mark G Boocock and Peter J Larmer Health and Rehabilitation Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology, Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1020, New Zealand Corresponding author: Peter J McNair, peter.mcnair@aut.ac.nz Received: 1 Dec 2008 Revisions requested: 18 Jan 2009 Revisions received: 28 May 2009 Accepted: 25 Jun 2009 Published: 25 Jun 2009 Arthritis Research Therapy 2009, 11:R98 (doi:10.1186/ar2743) This article is online at: /content/11/3/R98 ? 2009 McNair et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Recent guidelines pertaining to exercise for individuals with osteoarthritis have been released. These guidelines have been based primarily on studies of knee-joint osteoarthritis. The current study was focused on the hip joint, which has different biomechanical features and risk factors for osteoarthritis and has received much less attention in the literature. The purpose was to conduct a systematic review of the literature to evaluate the exercise programs used in intervention studies focused solely on hip-joint osteoarthritis, to decide whether their exercise regimens met the new guidelines, and to determine the level of support for exercise-therapy interventions in the management of hip-joint osteoarthritis. overall level of evidence in support of exercise-therapy interventions for treating hip osteoarthritis. Results More than 4,000 articles were identified, of which 338 were considered suitable for abstract revi