Objective: To evaluate the curative effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) external therapy on knee osteoarthritis patients with different TCM constitutions using musculoskeletal ultrasonography and contrast-enhanced ultrasonography, to explore application value in joint diseases. Methods: A total 57 diagnosed Shaanxi University from December 2019 May 2021 were collected, they divided int...

OBJECTIVE To study whether the course of anticoagulation therapy in patients who have deep venous thrombosis (DVT) after total joint arthroplasty can be shortened with a minimal risk of recurrence. DESIGN A case series. SETTING Kingston General Hospital, a university-affiliated tertiary care centre. PATIENTS Eleven patients who were found to have DVT after total hip or knee arthroplasty o...

1 Background: Rotator cuff disease is a common cause of shoulder pain. There are studies about the effectiveness of sodium hyaluronate injection on shoulder and knee pain, but few studies demonstrating the efficacy of sodium hyaluronate ultrasonography guided injection for rotator cuff disease. This study evaluates effectiveness of ultrasonography guided subacromial sodium hyaluronate injection...

Objectives: The present research aimed to evaluate the relationship of supra patella effusion with pain and disability in patients with knee osteoarthritis by Ultrasonography (US). Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 60 patients with knee OA (Mean±SD score of body mass index: 29.81±5.64 kg/m2 and age: 50.48±7.57 years) were selected by nonprobability sampling method. Supra patella effusion wa...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess inflammatory changes within the knee joint of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients by using ultrasound (US). Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and healthy subjects (HS) were evaluated as controls. US findings were correlated with disease activity parameters. METHODS Twenty-six SLE patients were enrolled in the study, 25 RA patients and 15 ...

purpose: over the past 20 years, the center of pressure (cop) has been commonly used as an index of postural stability in standing. while many studies investigated cop excursions in patients with knee osteoarthritis and healthy individuals, no comprehensive analysis of the differences in their postural sway pattern exists. the present study aimed to review the previously published studies conce...