Background and Objective: Monoarthritis is the inflammation of a single joint. There is limited data on the etiology of monorthritis in Iran. This study was aimed to evaluate epidemiologic charecteristics of the patients with monorthritis in Kashan, Iran. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 227 patients with monorthritis referred to the rheumatology clinic of Kas...

Osteoarthritis is one of the leading causes of chronic pain, but almost nothing is known about the mechanisms and molecules that mediate osteoarthritis-associated joint pain. Consequently, treatment options remain inadequate and joint replacement is often inevitable. Here, we use a surgical mouse model that captures the long-term progression of knee osteoarthritis to longitudinally assess pain-...

BACKGROUND Osteoarthritis of the knee involving predominantly the medial tibiofemoral compartment is common in older people, giving rise to pain and loss of function. Many people experience progressive worsening of the disease over time, particularly those with varus malalignment and increased medial knee joint load. Therefore, interventions that can reduce excessive medial knee loading may be ...

Recent high-level evidence favours therapeutic ultrasound (US) for reducing pain in people with knee osteoarthritis (OA). It is unknown how current practice patterns align with current evidence regarding US efficacy and whether physical therapists perceive a need for further high-level evidence. We conducted a descriptive electronic survey to characterize the beliefs and use of US among physica...

To evaluate the development of postoperative patellofemoral osteoarthritis, we performed a retrospective clinical and radiographic study of 100 patients who had undergone anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with a bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft an average of 7 years before the follow-up. Radiographic evaluation showed no patellofemoral osteoarthritis in 53 patients (group I), mild os...

Objective: Purpose of this study was to identify the effectiveness of mobilization (compression and decompression with glide) in patients of osteoarthritis of knee.

OBJECTIVE To establish whether proprioception and varus-valgus laxity moderate the association between muscle strength and activity limitations in patients with early symptomatic knee osteoarthritis. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS A sample of 151 participants with early symptomatic knee osteoarthritis from the Cohort Hip and Cohort Knee study. METHODS Regression analyses were pe...

OBJECTIVES This study determined biomechanical force parameters and reliability among clinicians performing knee joint mobilizations. METHODS Sixteen subjects with knee osteoarthritis and six therapists participated in the study. Forces were recorded using a capacitive-based pressure mat for three techniques at two grades of mobilization, each with two trials of 15 seconds. Dosage (force-time...

Many experimental and computational studies have reported that osteoarthritis in the knee joint affects knee biomechanics, including joint kinematics, joint contact forces, and muscle activities, due to functional restriction and disability. In this study, differences in muscle activities and joint force patterns between knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients and normal subjects during walking were ...

introduction: knee osteoarthritis (ko) is the most common joint disease for which there is no optimal treatment. monochromatic infrared photo energy (mipe) is a relatively new light modality used to reduce pain and increase circulation. low level laser therapy (lllt) is another light modality used to reduce pain in ko. methods: the aim of this study was to compare the effects of the mipe and ll...