OARSI guidelines for hip and knee OA: deciphering the topical drug mélange

OARSI recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis, Part II: OARSI evidence-based, expert consensus guidelines.

PURPOSE To develop concise, patient-focussed, up to date, evidence-based, expert consensus recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA), which are adaptable and designed to assist physicians and allied health care professionals in general and specialist practise throughout the world. METHODS Sixteen experts from four medical disciplines (primary care, rheumatology, o...

Comments on "OARSI guidelines for the non-surgical management of knee osteoarthritis".

OBJECTIVE To develop concise, up-to-date, patient-focused, evidence-based, expert consensus guidelines for the management of knee osteoarthritis (OA), intended to inform patients, physicians, and allied healthcare professionals worldwide. METHOD Thirteen experts from relevant medical disciplines (primary care, rheumatology, orthopedics, physical therapy, physical medicine and rehabilitation, ...

Knee injury and knee OA

OARSI recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis, part I: critical appraisal of existing treatment guidelines and systematic review of current research evidence.

PURPOSE As a prelude to developing updated, evidence-based, international consensus recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA), the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) Treatment Guidelines Committee undertook a critical appraisal of published guidelines and a systematic review (SR) of more recent evidence for relevant therapies. METHODS Sixteen ex...

Current Status of and Prospects for Osteoarthritis Treatment

Kawaguchi: This roundtable discussion, held alongside the annual OARSI congress, is now in its fifth year. This year, we have two main aims: first, to review the impact of the OARSI treatment guidelines on clinical practice worldwide, including the development of Japanese knee OA guidelines by JOA (Dr. Naoki Ishiguro, Chair of the knee OA guideline committee), which was adapted from the OARSI t...