We retrospectively evaluated the effectiveness of prolotherapy in resolving pain, stiffness, and crepitus, and improving physical activity in consecutive chondromalacia patients from February 2008 to September 2009. Sixty-nine knees that received prolotherapy in 61 patients (33 female and 36 male) who were 18-82 years old (average, 47.2 years) were enrolled. Patients received 24 prolotherapy in...

A system for assessing symptoms (pain, stiffness, gelling) and signs (local temperature, effusion, tenderness, synovial swelling, popliteal cyst, crepitus) of osteoarthritis of the knee has been developed. The system has been assessed for intra- and interobserver variation using normal and osteoarthritic knees. Intraobserver variability is low for all indices but interobserver variability is hi...

We report four patients who showed hundreds of brilliant white loose bodies at arthroscopy of the knee after a short history of pain and crepitus. Histological, historical and clinical evidence is presented which indicates that the aetiology of this condition is the culture of chondrocytes in synovial fluid. It is suggested that reversal of the usually accepted order of events in synovial osteo...

OBJECTIVES The study objectives were to evaluate the efficacy of integrating hatha yoga therapy with therapeutic exercises for osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee joints. DESIGN This was a prospective, randomized, active controlled trial. Two hundred and fifty (250) participants who had OA knees and who were between 35 and 80 years (yoga 59.56±9.54) and (control 59.42±10.66) from the outpatient d...

the femur, grazing and shattering the bone, but not injuring the popliteal vessels or the hamstring tendons. Crepitus could be distinctly felt on movement of the limb, and fractured bone was felt with.the probe. The escape of synovial fluid in large quantities a few days later, showed that the fracture extended into the knee-joint, but there was no displacement of the bone or distortion of the ...

Introduction: Knee crepitus can be defined as grinding, cracking or popping sounds in and/or around the knee joint (noisy knees). Many clinical practice guidelines include a diagnostic criterion for osteoarthritis. In setting, patients frequently ask whether they should concerned about crepitus, and may develop maladaptive beliefs movement behaviours attempting to avoid noise. We aimed explore ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Autologous osteochondral transplantation (OCT) is an established method of treating articular cartilage defects in the knee. However, the potential for donor site morbidity remains a concern. Both the restoration of the original cartilage defect and the evolution of the donor site defects can be evaluated by bone scintigraphy. Thus, we performed a prospective bone scintig...

SETTING Outpatient rehabilitation clinic. PATIENT A 37-year-old physically active male. CASE DESCRIPTION The patient presented with anterior left knee pain, exacerbated when climbing stairs, sitting, and running. Exam showed lateral tracking patellae and palpable crepitus. One hundred fifty units of botulinum toxin A was injected into his left vastus lateralis. He underwent a 12-week home e...