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  1. This study aimed to describe the changes in spinopelvic sagittal alignment in the sitting position after posterior lumbar fusion, and to identify the factors influencing unfused adjacent segment lordosis.

    Authors: Zhuoran Sun, Siyu Zhou, Wei Wang, Da Zou and Weishi Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:760
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  2. Legg–Calvé–Perthes (LCP) is a common orthopedic childhood disease that causes a deformity of the femoral head and to an adaptive deformity of the acetabulum. The altered joint biomechanics can result in early ...

    Authors: P. Fürnstahl, F. A. Casari, J. Ackermann, M. Marcon, M. Leunig and R. Ganz
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:759
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  4. Several risk assessments have been developed to evaluate fall risk in older adults, but it has not been conclusively established which of these tools is most effective for assessing fall risk in this vulnerabl...

    Authors: Nitchanant Kitcharanant, Ekasame Vanitcharoenkul and Aasis Unnanuntana
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:757
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  5. The technique of posterior pedicle screw fixation has already been widely applied in the treatment of upper thoracic spinal tuberculosis. However, lesions of tuberculosis directly invade the vertebrae and surr...

    Authors: Yuhang Wang, Dingjun Hao, Lixiong Qian, Xin He, Yibin Meng and Biao Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:756
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  6. Globally, the leading cause of years lived with disability is low back pain (LBP). Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is responsible for most of the cost and disability associated with LBP. This is more devastating ...

    Authors: Chinonso Nwamaka Igwesi-Chidobe, Sheila Kitchen, Isaac Olubunmi Sorinola and Emma Louise Godfrey
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:755
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  7. Planned lower limb surgery is common, with over 90,000 hip replacements, 95,000 knee replacements and 15,000 anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions performed in the UK each year. These procedures are prima...

    Authors: Maxwell Stanley Renna, Andrew Metcalfe, David Ellard and David Davies
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:754
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  8. A fracture of the calcaneus can be a painful and disabling injury. Treatment modalities may be conservative or operative. Surgical treatment strategies include open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) techn...

    Authors: Christian Rodemund, Ronny Krenn, Carl Kihm, Iris Leister, Reinhold Ortmaier, Werner Litzlbauer, Angelika M. Schwarz and Georg Mattiassich
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:753
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  9. Two parallel cannulated screws along with an anterior wire to construct a tension band is a popular approach in transverse patellar fractures. However, the optimal screw proximity, either deep or superficial s...

    Authors: Chih-Wei Chang, Chih-Hsien Chen, Chun-Ting Li, Yen-Nien Chen, Tai-Hua Yang, Chia-Jung Chang and Chih-Han Chang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:752
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  10. Sequential therapy from bone-forming medication to resorptive agents is reportedly effective for patients with severe osteoporosis. The objective of this study is to determine the impact of implementing short-...

    Authors: Chan Ho Park, Jun-Il Yoo, Chang Hyun Choi and You-Sung Suh
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:751
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  11. We studied the characteristics and regularity of appropriate insertion points for percutaneous pedicle screw placement in the lumbar spine using C-arm X-ray fluoroscopy. The purpose of this study was to improv...

    Authors: Wei-Xing Xu, Wei-Guo Ding, Bin Xu, Tian-Hong Hu, Hong-Feng Sheng, Jia-Fu Zhu and Xiao-Long Zhu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:750
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  12. Selective thoracolumbar/lumbar fusion technique was introduced to treat adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients with major thoracolumbar/lumbar curves. Theoretically, this surgical strategy could also b...

    Authors: Fan Feng, Hongxing Shen, Xiuyuan Chen, Zude Liu, Jianwei Chen, Quan Li and Lifeng Lao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:749
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  14. The prevalence and economic burdens of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are serious in rural China. In addition to formal support, health-related private transfers (HRPTs), including adult children transfers (A...

    Authors: Chaoyang Yan, Aichun Li, Qin Xiang and Jing Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:747
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  15. Plasma cell granuloma (PCG) is a rare non-neoplastic entity, with the precise etiology remaining unclear. Vertebra-affected spinal PCG has not been reported yet. This report presented a case with cross-segment...

    Authors: Renqin Lin, Shenglin Wang, Jianhua Lin, Zhenzhen Zhang and Xuanwei Chen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:746
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  16. A ligament advanced reinforcement system (LARS) artificial ligament has been proposed for use in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction, and many reports have shown its success in ACL reconstruction. ...

    Authors: Yuanliang Du, Haifeng Dai, Zhihui Wang, Di Wu, Changjiang Shi, Tianjie Xiao and Zhihuai Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:745
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  17. Rotator cuff related pain (RCRP) is one of the most common sources of musculoskeletal shoulder pain affecting the general population. Conservative treatment, in the form of exercise, is considered the first li...

    Authors: Rafael Baeske, Toby Hall and Marcelo Faria Silva
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:744
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  18. Surgeons recognize that using percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) under local anesthesia to treat osteoporotic vertebral fracture (OVF) prevents interference with the general situation of elderly patients suffering...

    Authors: Shuai Zhang, Shuang Xu, Jin Yang, Song Wang and Qing Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:743
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  19. We developed a fully automatic three-dimensional knee MRI analysis software that can quantify meniscus extrusion and cartilage measurements, including the projected cartilage area ratio (PCAR), which represent...

    Authors: Hayato Aoki, Nobutake Ozeki, Hisako Katano, Akinobu Hyodo, Yugo Miura, Junpei Matsuda, Kimiko Takanashi, Kenji Suzuki, Jun Masumoto, Noriya Okanouchi, Takeo Fujiwara and Ichiro Sekiya
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:742
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  20. Calcific tendinitis of the rotator cuff is a disorder that causes acute onset of shoulder pain when spontaneous resorption of the calcification occurs. However, factors that trigger calcium resorption have not...

    Authors: Ryogo Furuhata, Noboru Matsumura, Akira Yoshiyama, Yusaku Kamata, Masaaki Takahashi and Hideo Morioka
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:741
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  21. There is a paucity of reports clarifying the implication of knee osteoarthritis (OA) on spinal sagittal alignment of patients undergone surgery for lumbar spine. This study aimed to analyze how osteoarthritic ...

    Authors: Yong-Chan Kim, Ki-Tack Kim, Kee-Yong Ha, Joonghyun Ahn, Seungnam Ko, Qiang Luo, Sung-Min Kim, Mingyu Kim and Sunin Yoo
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:740
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  22. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness and safety of tranexamic acid (TXA) in orthopedic surgery. However, no study has investigated TXA in complex tibial plateau fracture surgery. Therefore, the...

    Authors: Zhimeng Wang, Yao Lu, Qian Wang, Leilei Song, Teng Ma, Cheng Ren, Zhong Li, Jiarui Yang, Kun Zhang and Bing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:739
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  23. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) represent an important socio-economic burden. The current risk assessment and management involved in the ethiopathogenesis of WMSDs is based on observational tool...

    Authors: Fabrizio Russo, Cristina Di Tecco, Luca Fontana, Giovanna Adamo, Adriano Papale, Vincenzo Denaro and Sergio Iavicoli
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:738
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  24. Ewing sarcoma, the second most frequent bone tumor in children and adolescents, is often presented with localized disease or metastatic-related symptoms. In this study, we aim to construct and validate a nomog...

    Authors: Zhenggang Zhou, Jinyu Wang, Liming Fang, Jianlin Ma and Mingbo Guo
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:737
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  25. We investigate the safety of the application of the Rigidfix cross-pin system via different tibial tunnels in the tibial fixation during anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction.

    Authors: Jian Wang, Hua-qiang Fan, Wenli Dai, Hong-Da Li, Yang-pan Fu, Zhenhuang Liu, Chang-ming Huang and Zhanjun Shi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:736
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  26. The clinical outcome of open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) for delayed lateral condylar fracture of the humerus (LCFH) varies in different studies, but ORIF for LCFH with an early-delayed presentation...

    Authors: Jin Li, Saroj Rai, Yun Gao, Renhao Ze, Xin Tang, Ruikang Liu and Pan Hong
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:735
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  27. The aim of this study is to introduce a new method of percutaneous endoscopic decompression under 3D real-time image-guided navigation for spinal stenosis in degenerative kyphoscoliosis patients without instab...

    Authors: Tsung-Yu Ho, Chung-Wei Lin, Chien-Chun Chang, Hsien-Te Chen, Yen-Jen Chen, Yuan-Shun Lo, Pan-Hsuan Hsiao, Po-Chen Chen, Chih-Sheng Lin and Hsi-Kai Tsou
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:734
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  28. Understanding of suprascapular notch (SSN) anatomy and relationship with scapular dimensions are vital in diagnosis, prevention, and assessment of suprascapular nerve entrapment syndrome. The study aimed to as...

    Authors: Adesanya Olamide Adewale, Okeniran Olatayo Segun, Ibe Michael Usman, Ann Lemuel Monima, Eric Simidi Kegoye, Keneth Iceland Kasozi, Halima Nalugo and Fred Ssempijja
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:733
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  29. Fibroma of tendon sheath (FTS) is a rare benign soft tissue tumor that often occurs in the upper extremities. It manifests as a slow-growing mass, often without tenderness or spontaneous pain. FTS occurs most ...

    Authors: Hiroki Shibayama, Yuichiro Matsui, Daisuke Kawamura, Atsushi Urita, Chikako Ishii, Tamotsu Kamishima, Mutsumi Nishida, Ai Shimizu and Norimasa Iwasaki
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:732
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  30. Many motion studies have shown that the inner bearing of bipolar prostheses moves less than expected under non-weight-bearing and static weight-bearing positions, which are not routine functional movements per...

    Authors: Weizhou Jiang, Jun Xiao, Bin Chen, Ming Jia, Yang Zhang, Jian Wang and Zhanjun Shi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:731
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  31. Muscle strength training is a common strategy for treating chronic ankle instability (CAI), but the effectiveness decreases for mechanical ankle instability (MAI) patients with initial severe ligament injuries...

    Authors: Zong-chen Hou, Xin Miao, Ying-fang Ao, Yue-lin Hu, Chen Jiao, Qin-wei Guo, Xing Xie, Feng Zhao, Yan-bin Pi, Nan Li, Zhi-yu Zhang and Dong Jiang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:730
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  32. Intensity of resistance training history might be omitted or poorly ascertained in prescreening or data questionnaires involving musculoskeletal health. Failure to identify history of high-versus low-intensity...

    Authors: Todd C. Shoepe, Joseph W. LaBrie, Grant T. Mello, Allison G. Leggett and Hawley C. Almstedt
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:729
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  33. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Umile Giuseppe Longo, Giuseppe Salvatore, Laura Risi Ambrogioni, Eleonora Cella, Vincenzo Candela, Arianna Carnevale, Emiliano Schena, Massimo Ciccozzi, Nicola Maffulli and Vincenzo Denaro
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:728
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    The original article was published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:687

  34. Globally, osteoarthritis (OA) is the third condition associated with disability. There is still poor treatment in OA but science holds the key to finding better treatments and a cure. It is essential to learn ...

    Authors: Marianna Vitaloni, Angie Botto-van Bemden, Rosa Sciortino, Xavier Carné, Maritza Quintero, Pedro Santos-Moreno, Rolando Espinosa, Oscar Rillo, Jordi Monfort, Francisco de Abajo, Elizabeth Oswald, Marco Matucci, Patrick du Souich, Ingrid Möller, Montserrat Romera Baures, Arlene Vinci…
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:727
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  35. Musculoskeletal disorders are often observed in patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The aim of the study was to assess passive ranges of rotation in the cervical spine, chest deformity and pelvic obli...

    Authors: Agnieszka Stępień, Łucja Mazurkiewicz, Katarzyna Maślanko, Witold Rekowski and Maria Jędrzejowska
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:726
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  36. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common peripheral nerve compression disorder. However, there is no established opinion regarding the predictors of symptom improvement after surgery. This study aimed to identify th...

    Authors: Yuichi Sasaki, Tohru Terao, Emiko Saito, Keiichiro Ohara, Shotaro Michishita, Naoki Kato, Satoshi Tani and Yuichi Murayama
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:725
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  37. Considerable attention has been paid to the role of kinesiophobia with respect to knee prosthesis but it has not yet been studied as a prognostic factor of short-term functional performance following total hip...

    Authors: M. Morri, E. Venturini, N. Franchini, R. Ruisi, A. Culcasi, A. Ruggiero, C. Govoni and M. G. Benedetti
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:724
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  38. Iliopsoas impingement is a complication of total hip arthroplasty that often manifests as groin pain during initial hip flexion. However, there are no reports of mechanical complications after iliopsoas tenoto...

    Authors: Sun-Jung Yoon, Jong-Hyun Ko and Dean K. Matsuda
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:723
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  39. Muscle weakness is an important etiological factor in plantar fasciitis (PF), but available data on the role of the quadriceps, hamstring, and gastrocnemius (GCM) muscles are limited. The aim of this study was...

    Authors: Jin Hyuck Lee, Hae Woon Jung and Woo Young Jang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:722
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  40. Encouraged by the widespread adoption of enhanced recovery protocols (ERPs) for elective total hip and knee arthroplasty (THA/TKA) in high-income countries, our nationwide multidisciplinary research group firs...

    Authors: Ulla Plenge, Romy Parker, Shamiela Davids, Gareth L. Davies, Zahnne Fullerton, Lindsay Gray, Penelope Groenewald, Refqah Isaacs, Ntambue Kauta, Frederik M. Louw, Andile Mazibuko, David M. North, Marc Nortje, Glen M. Nunes, Neo Pebane, Chantal Rajah…
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:721
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. The reported prevalence of spondylolysis (SL) in the adult population is 6–7%. Data concerning adolescent-onset spondylolisthesis (SLS) and the impact of certain activities on it is scarce. We examined the ris...

    Authors: Oren Zack, Yair Barak, Aharon S. Finestone, Ayala Krakov, Dani Slodownik, Deborah Alperovitch-Najenson and Shlomo Moshe
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:720
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Anteromedial cortex-to-cortex reduction is a key parameter for stable reconstruction of the fracture fragments during the intertrochanteric fracture fixation. This paper introduces the oblique fluoroscopic pro...

    Authors: Shi-Yi Chen, Shi-Min Chang, Rujan Tuladhar, Zhen Wei, Wen-Feng Xiong, Sun-Jun Hu and Shou-Chao Du
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:719
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  43. Range of abduction often decreases during Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease (LCPD) disease. However, a good range of abduction is required during the course of LCPD, especially when containment surgery should be perf...

    Authors: Ahmad El-Harbiti and Yasmin D. Hailer
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:718
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  44. Percutaneous endoscopic decompression (PED) is considered a minimally invasive and safe procedure in lumbar degenerative disease. Few authors report the success of PED for thoracic spinal stenosis (TSS) with t...

    Authors: Xiao-Kang Cheng, Fu-Cheng Bian, Zhao-Yu Liu, Feng-Kai Yang and Bin Chen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:717
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. We aimed to evaluate whether arthroscopic microfracture with atelocollagen augmentation could improve the clinical outcomes and quality of regenerated cartilage in patients with osteochondral lesion of the tal...

    Authors: Young Koo Lee, Ki Won Young, Jin Su Kim, Hong Seop Lee, Whi-Je Cho and Hyong Nyun Kim
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:716
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  46. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are common among healthcare workers. Because frequent patient transfer has been associated with increased risk of MSDs, we aim to quantify the physical load associ...

    Authors: Jonas Vinstrup, Markus D. Jakobsen, Pascal Madeleine and Lars L. Andersen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:715
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  47. At present, few reports of percutaneous endoscopic transforaminal decompression surgery have been reported to solve central lumbar spinal stenosis (CLSS). Is endoscopic decompression through bilateral transfor...

    Authors: Bin Zhang, Qingquan Kong, Yuqing Yan and Pin Feng
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:714
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  48. There are few reports of cervical myelopathy caused by an attack of subaxial calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) deposition. Moreover, there has been no report on cervical myelopathy by subaxial CPPD deposi...

    Authors: Dong-Gune Chang, Jong-Beom Park, Ho-Young Jung and Kyung Jin Seo
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:713
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  49. Spinal accessory nerve (SAN) palsy is rare in clinical settings. Iatrogenicity is the most common cause, with cervical lymph node biopsy accounting for > 50% of cases. However, SAN palsy after lymph node needl...

    Authors: Hisataka Suzuki, Yuichiro Matsui, Takahito Iwai, Mutsumi Nishida and Norimasa Iwasaki
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:712
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  50. Epidemiological studies examining the association between β-carotene intake and risk of fracture have reported inconsistent findings. We conducted a meta-analysis to investigate the association between β-carot...

    Authors: Tesfaye Getachew Charkos, Yawen Liu, Kemal Sherefa Oumer, Ann M. Vuong and Shuman Yang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:711
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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