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Orthopedics

Position Statement: Vitamin D Intake to Prevent Osteoporosis and Fracture in Adults.

Dec 19, 2022

Adequate vitamin D status is essential for bone health. New randomized controlled trials investigating the effect of vitamin D supplementation on bone health have recently been published. This positio...

Football Players Face Accelerated Aging

Dec 15, 2022

THURSDAY, Dec. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Retired football players may experience accelerated aging, including higher prevalence of chronic diseases, compared with the general population, according ...

Odds of Migraine Up With Median, Multiple Nerve Decompressions

Dec 14, 2022

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who undergo upper-extremity nerve decompression for median nerve compression or multiple nerve decompressions have increased odds of migraine, acc...

Air Pollution Tied to Multimorbidity Status, Severity

Dec 14, 2022

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to air pollution is associated with having multimorbid, multiorgan conditions, according to a study published online Dec. 2 in Frontiers in Public...

Diet and Exercise Intervention Better for Pain in Knee Osteoarthritis

Dec 14, 2022

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For overweight or obese patients with knee osteoarthritis, diet and exercise result in a small but statistically significant difference in knee pain over 1...

Staging of newly diagnosed Ewing sarcoma: Results of bone marrow aspiration and biopsy versus (18)FDG-PET/CT imaging for bone marrow involvement.

Dec 12, 2022

Ewing sarcoma (ES) is an aggressive bone or extraosseous tumour with an unfavourable prognosis when bone marrow metastases are present at diagnosis. The gold standard diagnosis for bone marrow (BM) in...

Body Fat Percentage and the Long-term Risk of Fractures. The EPIC-Norfolk Prospective Population Cohort Study.

Dec 12, 2022

This cohort study aimed to determine the association between body fat percentage (BF%), incident fractures and calcaneal broadband ultrasound attenuation (BUA).Participants were drawn from the EPIC-No...

Adaptive Risk Modeling: Improving Risk Assessment of Geriatric Hip Fracture Patients Throughout their Hospitalization.

Dec 05, 2022

The purpose of this study was twofold: 1. To assess how adaptive modeling, accounting for development of inpatient complications, affects the predictive capacity of the risk tool to predict inpatient ...

External root resorption (ERR) and rapid maxillary expansion (RME) at post-retention stage: a comparison between tooth-borne and bone-borne RME.

Dec 05, 2022

The study aimed to compare external root resorption (ERR) three-dimensionally in subjects treated with tooth-borne (TB) versus bone-borne (BB) rapid maxillary expansion (RME). Forty subjects who recei...

External root resorption (ERR) and rapid maxillary expansion (RME) at post-retention stage: a comparison between tooth-borne and bone-borne RME.

Dec 05, 2022

The study aimed to compare external root resorption (ERR) three-dimensionally in subjects treated with tooth-borne (TB) versus bone-borne (BB) rapid maxillary expansion (RME). Forty subjects who recei...

Data-driven development of the nationwide hip fracture registry in the Netherlands.

Dec 05, 2022

Additional variables for a nationwide hip fracture registry must be carefully chosen to prevent unnecessary registry load. A registry pilot in seven hospitals resulted in recommending polypharmacy, se...

Co-inhibition of immunoproteasome subunits LMP2 and LMP7 enables prevention of transplant arteriosclerosis.

Dec 05, 2022

The loss of vascular wall cells in allotransplanted arteries is the initial event leading to transplant arteriosclerosis (TA) and ensuing loss of allograft function. Pharmacological agents able to pre...

RSNA: Corticosteroid Injections Appear to Worsen Knee Osteoarthritis

Nov 30, 2022

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Corticosteroid injections seem to be associated with progression of knee osteoarthritis (OA), according to two studies presented at the annual meeting of t...

Antidepressants Have Small Benefit for Pain, Function in OA

Nov 30, 2022

TUESDAY, Nov. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Antidepressants lead to a small, but clinically unimportant, improvement in pain and function in patients with osteoarthritis, according to a review publishe...

One in Four Patients With RA Has Osteoporosis

Nov 24, 2022

More than one-quarter of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have osteoporosis, according to a study published online Sept. 23 in Scientific Reports. Samaneh Moshayedi, from Arak University of Med...

ACR: Genicular Nerve Block Offers Short-Term Pain Relief for Knee OA

Nov 23, 2022

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Genicular nerve block offers pain relief for patients with knee osteoarthritis, according to a study published online Nov. 11 in Arthritis & Rheumatolo...

FDA: Patients Should Be Cautious When Using Online Pharmacies to Buy Meds

Nov 19, 2022

FRIDAY, Nov. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers to be careful when buying prescription medication online. While some pharmacy websites operate lega...

Outcomes Similar for Total Ankle Replacement, Ankle Fusion in OA

Nov 15, 2022

TUESDAY, Nov. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with end-stage ankle osteoarthritis, total ankle replacement (TAR) and ankle fusion (AF) have similar clinical scores and harms, according to a ...

Hip Brace May Slow Hip Displacement in Children With Cerebral Palsy

Nov 09, 2022

TUESDAY, Nov. 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A novel hip brace is significantly effective in preventing the progression of hip displacement among children with nonambulatory cerebral palsy, according to ...

Delivery Methods Compared for Osteoarthritis Intervention

Nov 09, 2022

TUESDAY, Nov. 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- First-line intervention for hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA) may reduce pain whether delivered in-person or digitally, according to a study published online No...

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