Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most frequent joint disease encountered in the clinical practice and is the most common cause of locomotor disability in the elderly. OA strikes women more often than men and it increases in prevalence and incidence after menopause. Females are found to have more severe OA, more number of joint are involved, have more symptoms and increased hand and knee OA. Many expe...

INTRODUCTION The primary complaint of patients with hand osteoarthritis (OA) is frequently the inelegant appearance of their hands. Only one study has been conducted to assess the magnitude of and identify the determinants of aesthetic discomfort in hand OA. METHODS The LIège Hand Osteoarthritis Cohort is a prospective cohort of 203 patients diagnosed with hand OA. At baseline, these patients...

background: knee osteoarthritis (oa) is the most common musculoskeletal disease among old individuals which affects ability for sitting on the chair, standing, walking and climbing stairs. our objective was to investigate the short and long-term effects of the most simple and the least expensive exercise protocols in combination to conventional conservative therapy for knee oa.   methods : it w...

conclusions this study presented some effects of the pomegranate peel extract in reducing pain and improving clinical signs and symptoms in women with knee oa and might be considered as a complementary medicine in treating oa. results there were no significant differences between the two groups in the mean of age, body mass index (bmi), disease duration and parity before intervention (p > 0.05)...

   Management of first shoulder dislocation following reduction remains controversial. The two main options are immobilisation and arthroscopic stabilisation. The aim of this article is to highlight some of the issues that influence decision making when discussing management options with these patients, including natural history of the first time dislocation, outcomes of surgery and non-operati...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most pervasive joint disorder impacting over millions of people each year. OA normally affects larger weight-bearing joints, with knees being prevalent. It anticipated to affect 67 million by 2030.

  Background: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common musculoskeletal disease among old individuals which affects ability for sitting on the chair, standing, walking and climbing stairs. Our objective was to investigate the short and long-term effects of the most simple and the least expensive exercise protocols in combination to conventional conservative therapy for knee OA.   Methods : It...

There is a great need for quantitative outcomes reflecting the functional status in patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA) to advance development and investigation of interventions OA. The purpose this study was determine if gait kinematics specific disease—i.e., versus OA—can be identified using wearable sensors statistical parametric mapping (SPM) whether disease-related deviations are...

There have been reports both supporting and refuting an inverse relationship between hip fracture and hip osteoarthritis (OA). We have investigated this relationship using histomorphometric study of femoral head subchondral bone. We studied 74 subjects with hip fracture (74% females) and 24 subjects with osteoarthritis (45% females). By histomorphometric analysis of parafined sections, we analy...