Is walking a good exercise for osteoarthritis?

Yes: Evidence has shown that walking is beneficial for patients with osteoarthritis of the knees, hips, and back.

Yes: It can help keep OA at bay. However sometimes even this hurts. Consider stem cell therapies as options if steroid injections or synvisc/euflexxa type injections are not helpful enough. Check out Regenexx.Com.

Great idea.: Walking is great for someone with osteoarthritis. First, it's a great form of exercise that will be lightly impactful upon the compromised joints. Second, brisk walking has been shown to half the mortality of elderly people, so there's a significant health benefit for anyone in just briskly walking on most days of the week.

No, resistance train: Is better. For any weight bearing joint OA esp people with high BMI, any lb over ideal body weight puts joint in more strain/stress impact with every stride up to 3-5 times more for hips/knees and 5-7 times ankle base on walking or running. What's going to help every OA Patient the most is to strengthen peri articulate structures like tendon/ligament/muscles for stability, pain contr, joint health