Orthopedics
Jun 12, 2024
TUESDAY, June 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening for osteoporosis for women aged 65 years and older and for postmenopausal women younge...
Jun 05, 2024
TUESDAY, June 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends exercise interventions for preventing falls in community-dwelling older adults at risk for falls ...
May 30, 2024
WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Neuromuscular exercise and pain neuroscience education do not provide superior pain and function outcomes versus pain neuroscience education alone in patie...
May 30, 2024
WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- From 2007 to 2019, there was an increase in inflation-adjusted health care spending, largely due to increasing contributions to premiums, according to a re...
May 27, 2024
Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome (iHES) is a condition wherein persistent hypereosinophilia associated with end-organ damage occurs without any known causes. Due to the rarity of the disease, ins...
May 21, 2024
MONDAY, May 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Arm fat may predict risk for spinal fracture, according to a study presented at the annual European Congress of Endocrinology, hosted by the European Society ...
May 17, 2024
THURSDAY, May 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Radiomics features can help identify incident destabilizing meniscal tears, according to a study published online May 15 in the Journal of Orthopaedic Resea...
May 16, 2024
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty (rTKA) is associated with fewer complications but higher average total cost than conventional TKA (cTKA), accordin...
May 16, 2024
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with adult spinal deformity (ASD), those with severe bilateral hip osteoarthritis (OA) have worse outcomes, according to a study published onl...
May 13, 2024
As an innovative internal fixation system, FNS (femoral neck system) is increasingly being utilized by surgeons for the treatment of femoral neck fractures. At present, there have been numerous finite...
May 03, 2024
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For upper-extremity function after thumb carpometacarpal (CMC) arthroplasty, video-only therapy (VOT) is noninferior to in-person therapy (IPT), according to...
May 03, 2024
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The overall visit proportion for emergency department visits involving pedestrian injury is 45.62 per 100,000 emergency department visits, according to resea...
May 02, 2024
WEDNESDAY, May 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Weight-bearing activity appears tied to incident knee osteoarthritis (OA) in people who have low levels of lower-limb muscle mass, according to a study...
Apr 30, 2024
MONDAY, April 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Fracture risk is nearly doubled in individuals with acute calcium pyrophosphate (CPP) crystal arthritis, according to a study recently published in Arthriti...
Apr 25, 2024
Self-administered acupressure (SAA) is an efficacious and cost-effective approach to relieve knee pain in middle-aged and older adults with probable knee osteoarthritis (OA), according to a study publ...
Apr 24, 2024
TUESDAY, April 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Younger women are less likely to develop musculotendinous injury (MTI) relative to total injuries when compared with men, according to a study published on...
Apr 24, 2024
TUESDAY, April 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The addition of arthroscopic surgery to nonoperative management of knee arthritis does not delay or hasten total knee arthroplasty (TKA) during 10 years of...
Apr 24, 2024
TUESDAY, April 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For longer-term nursing home residents, initiation of antihypertensive medication is associated with an increased risk for fractures and falls, according t...
Apr 24, 2024
TUESDAY, April 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly one-quarter of patients show persistent early knee osteoarthritis (OA) symptoms six to 12 months after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (AC...
Apr 22, 2024
Despite the established success of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with end-stage osteoarthritis, there is a notable scarcity of research on its long-term outcomes in individuals suffering from end-stag...