Aug 03, 2020

Postoperative subsidence of transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) cages can result in loss of lordosis and foraminal height, and potential recurrence of nerve root impingement. The objectives ...

Jul 30, 2020

Low back pain is a common condition and one of the leading reasons for years of chronic disability. Rehabilitation has been shown to be effective on low back pain, because it is based on the complex a...

Jul 30, 2020

Over the last few years, various concepts of applying core stabilisation mechanisms in the formation of human motor function have come to existence. The objective of the research was to assess the inf...

Jul 30, 2020

NPR2 encodes atrial natriuretic peptide receptor B (ANPRB), a regulator of skeletal growth. Biallelic loss-of-function mutations in NPR2 result in acromesomelic dysplasia Maroteaux type (AMDM; OMIM 60...

Jul 30, 2020

Genetic variation of insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) was found to modulate the insulin resistance of adipose tissues, but the underlying mechanism was not clear. To investigate how the IRS-1 was ...

Jul 30, 2020

Bone metastasis of prostate cancer is associated with pain and reduced overall survival (OS). Radium-223, which is expected to reduce bone pain and prolong OS, was recently approved in Japan.The aim o...

Jul 27, 2020

Low back pain (LBP) is a prevalent condition with overwhelming healthcare costs and high disability rates. Characterization of clinical and psychosocial variables over time in patients experiencing an...

Jul 27, 2020

To investigate the effect of supplementary energy on bone formation and resorption during arduous military training in energy deficit.Thirty male soldiers completed an 8-week military combat course (m...

Jul 27, 2020

Military service members commonly sustain lower extremity stress fractures (SFx). How SFx risk factors influence bone metabolism is unknown. Understanding how SFx risk factors influence bone metabolis...

Jul 27, 2020

Preclinical micro-CT provides a hotbed in which to develop new imaging technologies, including spectral CT using photon counting detector (PCD) technology. Spectral imaging using PCDs promises to expa...

Jul 27, 2020

As the percentage of overweight individuals in the population rises, diseases associated with excess weight resulting from poor nutrition are becoming more and more widespread. So far, the influence o...

Jul 27, 2020

Diamond-Blackan anemia (DBA) is the first ribosomopathy described and one of the constitutional inherited bone marrow failure syndromes. Erythroblastopenia is the major characteristic feature of the d...

Jul 23, 2020

Investigations on movement quality deficits associated with jump landing are numerous, however, these studies are often performed in laboratories with little distraction to the participant. This is co...

Jul 23, 2020

Cross-sectional observational study.This study aimed to analyze any potential associations of extramyocellular lipid (EMCL) and intramyocellular lipid (IMCL) contents with (1) the intensity of low bac...

Jul 23, 2020

Calcium sulfate (CS) bone cements have been used as bone substitutes for a long history, but it is limited to apply in clinical trials due to its rapid degradation rate and brittleness. This work aims...

Jul 23, 2020

Gray platelet syndrome (GPS) is a rare recessive disorder caused by biallelic variants in NBEAL2 and characterized by bleeding symptoms, the absence of platelet ɑ-granules, splenomegaly and bone marr...

Jul 23, 2020

An effective strategy of hyperthermia-chemotherapy-regeneration for bone-related cancer treatments is presented. For this purpose, a new approach of magnetic particles (MPs) encapsulated in bioactive ...

Jul 23, 2020

Dislocation after bipolar hip hemiarthroplasty is an uncommon complication. Although closed manoeuvre reduction under general anaesthesia is a common and effective method for dislocation of the hemiar...

Jul 20, 2020

Studying 12,839 fracture cases and 91,426 controls, we found that fractures of the spine and hip are associated with clinically important HRQoL deficits up to 5 years post-fracture. Fracture cases wi...

Jul 20, 2020

Neck circumference is quick and simple to measure and thus an attractive proxy of neck strength, a putative mechanism underlying risk of sport-related concussion (SRC). Research, however, is limited o...