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Orthopedics

Telemedicine Use Explodes During COVID-19 Pandemic

Aug 02, 2020

FRIDAY, July 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The emergence of telemedicine has accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic. HD Live! sat down with Rujuta Saksena, M.D., an oncologist at Overlook Medical ...

Implementation of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program for patients with chronic low back pain-experiences and perspectives of rehabilitation team members.

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...

Assesment of the influence of global and local exercises on core stabilisation mechanisms: randomised control trial.

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...

Short Stature is Progressive in Patients with Heterozygous NPR2 Mutations.

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...

Insulin receptor substrate-1 inhibits high-fat diet-induced obesity by browning of white adipose tissue through miR-503.

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 ...

Bone scan index can be a useful biomarker of survival outcomes in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer treated with radium-223.

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...

Clinical and Psychosocial Factors Over Time Following an Acute Low Back Pain Episode.

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...

Supplementary Energy Increases Bone Formation during Arduous Military Training.

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...

Trunk and Lower Extremity Movement Patterns, Stress Fracture Risk Factors, and Biomarkers of Bone Turnover in Military Trainees.

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...

Dual source hybrid spectral micro-CT using an energy-integrating and a photon-counting detector.

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...

Impact of Long-term, High-fat, and High-cholesterol Diet on Murine Vertebrae Bones.

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...

Diamond-Blackfan Anemia.

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...

CDC Guidance Issued for Testing, Management of HCP Exposed to Hep C

Jul 26, 2020

FRIDAY, July 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance report, published in the July 24 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, recommendations...

Whole-Body CTs Save Time for Trauma Patients in Emergency Dept

Jul 24, 2020

THURSDAY, July 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Whole-body computed tomography (WBCT) for trauma patients may save time in the emergency department, but is not associated with other improved outcomes, acc...

Financial Health of Hospitals 'Dire' Due to COVID-19

Jul 24, 2020

THURSDAY, July 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 continues to cause financial peril for U.S. hospitals, according to a report released by the American Hospital Association (AHA). Kaufman Hall c...

The Effects of a Cognitive Dual Task on Jump-landing Movement Quality.

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...

Is the Lipid Content of the Psoas Major Correlated with Chronic Low Back Pain and Spinopelvic Alignment? A Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Study.

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...

Effect of calcium phosphate and silk fibroin nanofibers tuning on properties of calcium sulfate bone cements.

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...

Novel manifestations of immune dysregulation and granule defects in gray platelet syndrome.

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...

FeO/Bioactive glass nanostructure: A promising therapeutic platform for osteosarcoma treatment.

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 ...

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