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  1. Charcot neuropathic arthropathy (CN) is a chronic, progressive, destructive, non-infectious process that most frequently affects the bone architecture of the foot in patients with sensory neuropathy. We evalua...

    Authors: Niklas Renner, Stephan Hermann Wirth, Georg Osterhoff, Thomas Böni and Martin Berli
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:504
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  3. Gait disorders and as a consequence, robotic rehabilitation techniques are becoming increasingly prevalent as the population ages. In the area of rehabilitation robotics, using lightweight single hip joint exo...

    Authors: Mahla Daliri, Mohammad Ghorbani, Alireza Akbarzadeh, Hossein Negahban, Mohammad H Ebrahimzadeh, Elham Rahmanipour and Ali Moradi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:80
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  4. Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear is considered a risk factor for osteoarthritis development. The purpose of our study was to investigate the expression levels of the apoptotic enzyme caspase 3, pro-inflam...

    Authors: Ioanna Papathanasiou, Sotirios Michalitsis, Michael E. Hantes, Marianna Vlychou, Lydia Anastasopoulou, Konstantinos N. Malizos and Aspasia Tsezou
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:21
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  5. Long-term patients with diabetes and peripheral neuropathy show altered foot biomechanics and abnormal foot loading. This study aimed at assessing muscle performance and ankle mobility in such patients under c...

    Authors: Claudia Giacomozzi, Emanuela D'Ambrogi, Stefano Cesinaro, Velio Macellari and Luigi Uccioli
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008 9:99
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  6. Accurate measurement of ankle dorsiflexion is important in both research and clinical practice as restricted motion has been associated with many foot pathologies and increased risk of ulcer in people with dia...

    Authors: A. Searle, M. J. Spink and V. H. Chuter
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2018 19:183
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  7. Congenital limb deficiency is a rare and intractable disease, which impairs both function and appearance of the limbs. To establish adequate medical care, it is necessary to reveal the actual conditions and pr...

    Authors: Hiroshi Mano, Sayaka Fujiwara, Kazuyuki Takamura, Hiroshi Kitoh, Shinichiro Takayama, Tsutomu Ogata, Shuji Hashimoto and Nobuhiko Haga
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2018 19:262
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  8. Musculoskeletal impairment (MSI) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, especially in developing countries. Prevalence studies for MSI in the developing world have used varying methodologi...

    Authors: Oluwarantimi Atijosan, Hannah Kuper, Dorothea Rischewski, Victoria Simms and Christopher Lavy
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2007 8:30
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is an ultra-rare disorder marked by painful, recurrent flare-ups and heterotopic ossification (HO) in soft and connective tissues, which can be idiopathic or provoke...

    Authors: Sukhmani Singh, Joseph Kidane, Kelly L. Wentworth, Daria Motamedi, Saam Morshed, Andrew E. Schober and Edward C. Hsiao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:204
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  11. To determine the relaxation times of the sodium nucleus, and to investigate the repeatability of quantitative, in vivo TSC measurements using sodium magnetic resonance imaging (23Na-MRI) in human skeletal muscle ...

    Authors: Olgica Zaric, Hannes Beiglböck, Veronika Janacova, Pavol Szomolanyi, Peter Wolf, Michael Krebs, Siegfried Trattnig, Martin Krššák and Vladimir Juras
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:925
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  12. Charcot neuroarthropathy (CNA) of the upper extremity occurs most frequently in shoulders. However, CNA in the hands is uncommon and seldom be reported. The onset of CNA is usually insidious. If this process c...

    Authors: Wenting Wang, Anni Tong, Nan Liu, Fin Biering-Soerensen and Shuai Tong
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:545
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  13. It is known that when barefoot, gait biomechanics of diabetic neuropathic patients differ from non-diabetic individuals. However, it is still unknown whether these biomechanical changes are also present during...

    Authors: Isabel CN Sacco, Paula MH Akashi and Ewald M Hennig
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2010 11:24
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  14. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between epidemiological, clinical and radiographic factors of patients with tibial shaft fractures and the occurrence of acute compartment syndrome.

    Authors: Lydia Wuarin, Amanda I. Gonzalez, Matthieu Zingg, Patrick Belinga, Pierre Hoffmeyer, Robin Peter, Anne Lübbeke and Axel Gamulin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:25
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  15. Chronic pain syndrome (CPS) is a common complication after operative procedures, and only a few studies have focused on the evaluation of CPS in foot-forefoot surgery and specifically on HV percutaneous correc...

    Authors: Carlo Biz, Gianfranco de Iudicibus, Elisa Belluzzi, Miki Dalmau-Pastor, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Manuela Funes, Gian-Mario Parise and Pietro Ruggieri
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2021 22:1043
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  16. Uncemented allograft prosthesis composite (APC) has been applied for tumorous bone defect reconstruction in the proximal femur. However, the long-term results are rarely reported. This study aimed to evaluate ...

    Authors: Cai Liu, Li Min, Yong Zhou, Yi Luo, Fan Tang, Minxun Lu, Hong Duan, Wenli Zhang, Xinzhu Yu and Chongqi Tu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2021 22:128
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  17. Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) has been implicated in the progression of osteoarthritis (OA). This study was aimed to explore the role and molecular mechanism of lncRNA HOXA terminal transcriptional RNA (HOTTIP)...

    Authors: Xianwei He, Kun Gao, Shuaihua Lu and Rongbo Wu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2021 22:67
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  18. The construction industry is one of the most hazardous working areas, where the highest number of labourers engaged. However, the predisposing factors for occupational injury in the construction sites in Ethio...

    Authors: Fentahun Berhanu, Mulat Gebrehiwot and Zemichael Gizaw
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:523
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  19. Two types of methods are used to assess learning curves: outcome assessment and process assessment. Outcome measures are usually dichotomous rare events like complication rates and survival or require an exten...

    Authors: Jakob van Oldenrijk, Matthias U Schafroth, Mohit Bhandari, Wouter C Runne and Rudolf W Poolman
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008 9:93
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  20. To reconstruct massive bone defects of the femoral diaphysis and proximal end with limited bilateral cortical bone after joint-preserving musculoskeletal tumor resections, two novel 3D-printed customized inter...

    Authors: Xianhao Shao, Mengmeng Dou, Qiang Yang, Jianmin Li, Ailin Zhang, Yuan Yao, Qing Chu, Ka Li and Zhenfeng Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:67
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  21. Bone transport has been successfully applied for the management of large segmental bone defects. However, its main shortcoming is the long-lasting consolidation period, which may cause lots of related complica...

    Authors: Qiang Huang, Yi Bo Xu, Cheng Ren, Ming Li, Cheng Cheng Zhang, Lu Liu, Qian Wang, Yao Lu, Hua Lin, Zhong Li, Han Zhong Xue, Kun Zhang and Teng Ma
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:157
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  22. Fractures of the anterior process of the calcaneus are often missed, and their treatments and results receive little attention in the current literature. The aim of this study was to specify treatment algorith...

    Authors: Charlotte Cibura, Raimund Lülsdorff, Tim Ramczykowski, Thomas Armin Schildhauer and Christiane Kruppa
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:942
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  23. There have been increasing numbers of publications in recent years on minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for total hip arthroplasty (THA), reporting results with the use of different head sizes, tribologic and f...

    Authors: Steffen Hoell, Marius Sander, Georg Gosheger, Helmut Ahrens, Ralf Dieckmann and Gregor Hauschild
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2014 15:80
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  24. Distal radius fractures are among the most common fractures and account for approximately one-sixth of all fractures diagnosed. Therapy results after distal radius fracture, especially of elderly patients, are...

    Authors: Nadja Schott and Heide Korbus
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2014 15:287
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  25. Desmoid-type fibromatosis (DF) is a aggressive (myo)fibroblastic neoplasm with an infiltrative growth and a tendency to local recurrence. Resection of the tumour and/or radiation were proposed as principal tre...

    Authors: Laura Wirth, Alexander Klein, Andrea Baur-Melnyk, Thomas Knösel, Lars H. Lindner, Falk Roeder, Volkmar Jansson and Hans Roland Dürr
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2018 19:2
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  26. Angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma (AFH) is a rare soft tissue tumor of intermediate biologic potential. Because of its rarity and nonspecific radiological and diverse pathological findings, AFH is often clinica...

    Authors: Kenichi Saito, Eisuke Kobayashi, Akihiko Yoshida, Yoshihiro Araki, Daisuke Kubota, Yoshikazu Tanzawa, Akira Kawai, Takashi Yanagawa, Kenji Takagishi and Hirokazu Chuman
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:31
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  27. There remain limited data on the epidemiological characteristics and related predictors of surgical site infection (SSI) after open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) for distal femur fractures (DFFs). We ...

    Authors: Chao Zhu, Junzhe Zhang, Junyong Li, Kuo Zhao, Hongyu Meng, Yanbin Zhu and Yingze Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2021 22:258
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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