OBJECTIVE The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of virgin olive oil phonophoresis on female athletes' anterior knee pain (AKP). MATERIALS AND METHODS A double blinded randomized clinical trial was conducted. Ninety-three female athletes suffering from AKP voluntarily participated in this study. Patients were randomly assigned into olive oil (n=31), piroxicam (n=31) or bas...

Background Osteoarthritis is a common degenerative disease. Prolotherapy is an alternative therapy used in multiple musculoskeletal disorders. Objective To compare the effectiveness of intra-articular dextrose injection versus peri-articular prolotherapy in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Methods Fifty-two adults with painful primary knee osteoarthritis for at least three months we...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of a multi-professional educational program in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) . METHODS Prospective randomized controlled trial with 195 KOA patients. One group was submitted to two-day lectures and received educational material about KOA (Class group), and the control group received the educational material only. Patients were evaluated at baseline,...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of clinical nursing path in combination with Chinese dialectical nursing on patients with knee osteoarthritis. METHODS Randomized controlled trial of 60 patients with knee osteoarthritis in our hospital between 2012 and 2013 was enrolled. The control group received only routine care by using traditional model, while the experimental group was subjected to r...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a progressive and degenerative disease, which may result in significant pain and decreased quality of life. Recent updates in our understanding of OA have demonstrated that it is a whole joint disease that has many similarities to an unhealed wound containing inflammatory cytokines. The nSTRIDE Autologous Protein Solution (APS) Kit is a medical device under development fo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of joint lavage in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. DESIGN We conducted an open prospective study involving 111 patients of whom 77% were females. The patients' age range was 43-81 years and the average age 64±8.7 years. All patients had gonarthrosis as diagnosed according to the (ACR) American College of Rheumatology criteria (Kellgren radiographic...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of glucosamine sulfate on long-term symptoms and structure progression in postmenopausal women with knee osteoarthritis (OA). DESIGN This study consisted of a preplanned combination of two three-year, randomized, placebo-controlled, prospective, independent studies evaluating the effect of glucosamine sulfate on symptoms and structure modification in OA and...

BACKGROUND Vitamin D is important for bone, cartilage and muscle function but there are few studies on its association with joint pain. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether serum vitamin D predicts change in knee and hip pain in older adults. METHODS Longitudinal population-based cohort study of randomly selected older adults (n=769) aged 50-80 years (mean 62 years); 50% were male. Serum 25-hyd...