A 55-year-old man presents to the office with a 1-year history of right knee pain. The patient reports a history of medial compartment knee arthritis. What would be your recommendation for arthroplasty: total or unicompartmental ..read more

Although patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis had similar disease burdens at initial presentation, patients with osteoarthritis had a higher disease burden at 6 months ..read more

Are you considering viscosupplementation for knee osteoarthritis for your patients? Keep them informed with this fact sheet ..read more

A 67-year-old man presents with end-stage arthritis of the left hip as shown in an anteroposterior pelvis X-ray (Figure 1). He has failed conservative treatment and wishes to have a total hip replacement. He had a right hip replacement 5 years ago using the posterior approach. He recently heard about the anterior approach and asks ..read more

A recent study is providing evidence that recreational running is beneficial for hip and knee joint health ..read more

Among patients with or at risk for knee osteoarthritis (OA), an international research team identified gait alterations related to worsening pain and function by using data collected from wearable-sensors and machine learning techniques, according to study results published in Arthritis Care & Research. Gait alterations from worsening pain or function among patients with knee OA have been less well studied than those that lead to worsening of structural disease. Thus, researchers used data from the observational Multicenter Osteoarthritis (MOST) study to identify gait alterations related t ..read more

Accounting for dispositional traits may help explain individual differences in radiographic knee osteoarthritis (OA) findings, pain, and function, potentially enhancing clinical evaluations by using nonpathological factors and pain-related psychological traits as simplified indicators, according to study findings published in Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease. Previous literature has demonstrated varied results regarding the relationship between experimental pain, clinical pain, and knee OA severity based on Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) scores. Psychological factors such as disposition ..read more

Multimodal analgesia was associated with reduced opioid use postoperatively among inpatients who underwent shoulder arthroplasties, particularly when peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs) were also used, according to results of a retrospective study published in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine. However, an increased number of analgesic modes did not translate to fewer patient complications. Additionally, in the outpatient setting, multimodal analgesia was associated with increased postoperative opioid use and complications. Previous research has found several types of pain relief reduced opio ..read more

HealthDay News — 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 published online April 19 in JAMA Network Open. Wing-Fai Yeung, Ph.D., from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and colleagues evaluated the effectiveness of SAA taught via a short training course on reducing knee OA pain in middle-aged and older adults (aged 50 years and older). The analysis included 314 participants randomly assigned to acupressure twice daily for 12 weeks or a co ..read more

HealthDay News — 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 published online April 19 in JAMA Network Open. Wing-Fai Yeung, Ph.D., from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and colleagues evaluated the effectiveness of SAA taught via a short training course on reducing knee OA pain in middle-aged and older adults (aged 50 years and older). The analysis included 314 participants randomly assigned to acupressure twice daily for 12 weeks or a co ..read more