Congenital dislocation of the knee (CDK) is a rare disorder. We report the case of a 7-year-old girl with bilateral knee stiffness, marked anterior bowing of both legs, and inability to walk without aid. Radiologic investigation revealed bilateral knee joint dislocation accompanied by severe anterior bowing of both tibia proximally and posterior bowing of both femur distally, demonstrating ...

Joint pain or arthralgia is a common complaint among girls who have received immunization with the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, but the pathogenesis of this disorder has not been completely understood. We report 2 cases of joint lesions after HPV vaccination. In one case, a 13-yearold patient showed transient arthropathy in the right wrist joint after the first dose of Gardasil® administ...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disorder in the world, and occurs frequently in elderly individuals, with pain being the most prominent symptom in most people with arthri­ tis [1–4]. Therefore, OA causes impaired qual­ ity of life [5]. Musculoskeletal diseases, includ­ ing OA, are very common and were a driving force for the initiation of the ‘Bone and Joint Decade’ [6]. OA is a ch...

Joint diseases cause serious medical problems for several million people world-wide and therefore the World Health Organization has designated years 2000-2010 as the Decade of the Bone and Joint (Popko et al.2011). Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common, and increasingly prevalent, human joint disorder (Dieppe, 2000). It has been estimated that in 1990 12 % of Americans, nearly 21 million peopl...

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) exhibit deficits in joint attention behaviors. As joint attention is considered a pivotal skill, it has been recommended that intervention programs target the development of joint attention, but there remains a lack of comparative research on the efficacy and effectiveness these intervention programs. Informal observational measures have been acknowl...