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  1. Arthroscopic patellar release (APR) is utilized for minimally invasive surgical treatment of patellar tendinopathy. Evidence regarding long-term success following the procedure is limited. Also, the influence ...

    Authors: Gernot Lang, Jan M. Pestka, Dirk Maier, Kaywan Izadpanah, Norbert Südkamp and Peter Ogon
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:486
  2. Handball is a physical contact sport that includes frequent overhead throwing, and this combination leads to a high rate of shoulder injuries. Several factors have been associated with shoulder injuries in ove...

    Authors: Martin Asker, Markus Waldén, Henrik Källberg, Lena W. Holm and Eva Skillgate
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:485
  3. The elbow is prone to stiffness after trauma. To regain functional elbow motion several conservative- and surgical treatment options are available. Conservative treatment includes physical therapy, intra-artic...

    Authors: Jetske Viveen, Job N. Doornberg, Izaak F. Kodde, Pjotr Goossens, Koen L. M. Koenraadt, Bertram The and Denise Eygendaal
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:484
  4. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between facet tropism and spinal degenerative diseases, such as degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis, degenerative lumbar scoliosis, and lumbar disc he...

    Authors: Tian Gao, Qi Lai, Song Zhou, Xuqiang Liu, Yuan Liu, Ping Zhan, Xiaolong Yu, Jun Xiao, Min Dai and Bin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:483
  5. Individuals with persistent musculoskeletal pain (PMP) have an increased risk of developing co-morbid health conditions and for early-mortality compared to those without pain. Despite irrefutable evidence supp...

    Authors: Joanne Marley, Mark A. Tully, Alison Porter-Armstrong, Brendan Bunting, John O’Hanlon, Lou Atkins, Sarah Howes and Suzanne M. McDonough
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:482
  6. To systematically review all available studies of operatively treated proximal tibia fractures and to report the incidence of superficial or deep infection and subsequent outcomes.

    Authors: Ralf Henkelmann, Karl-Heinz Frosch, Richard Glaab, Helmut Lill, Christian Schoepp, Dominik Seybold, Christoph Josten and Pierre Hepp
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:481
  7. Glucocorticoid-associated osteonecrosis is an intractable condition, making the establishment of preventative strategies of particular importance. Recently various studies using mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) ha...

    Authors: Shusuke Ueda, Miyako Shimasaki, Toru Ichiseki, Yoshimichi Ueda, Masanobu Tsuchiya, Ayumi Kaneuji and Norio Kawahara
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:480
  8. “Advanced Core Decompression” (ACD) is a new technique for treatment of osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) that includes removal of the necrotic tissue using a percutaneous expandable reamer followed by ...

    Authors: Stefan Landgraeber, Sebastian Warwas, Tim Claßen and Marcus Jäger
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:479
  9. The aim of this study is to compare the functional midterm outcome of stemless shoulder prostheses with standard anatomical stemmed shoulder prostheses and to show that the STEMLESS results are comparable to t...

    Authors: David M. Spranz, Hendrik Bruttel, Sebastian I. Wolf, Felix Zeifang and Michael W. Maier
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:478
  10. Physical activity (PA) decreases during hospitalization. In particular, the amount of PA engaged in by older people who are hospitalized following musculoskeletal injury is likely to be limited for months afte...

    Authors: K. Turunen, L. Aaltonen, J. Kumpumäki, E. Portegijs, S. Keikkala, M.-L. Kinnunen, T. Finni, S. Sipilä and R. Nikander
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:477
  11. Glenohumeral exploration is routinely performed during arthroscopic removal of rotator cuff calcifications in patients with calcific tendinitis of the shoulder (CTS). However, evidence on the prevalence of int...

    Authors: Gernot Lang, Kaywan Izadpanah, Eva Johanna Kubosch, Dirk Maier, Norbert Südkamp and Peter Ogon
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:476
  12. MRI analysis of subtalar ligaments in the tarsal sinus has not been well performed. We retrospectively investigated the appearance of subtalar ligaments using 3D isotropic MRI and compared imaging findings of ...

    Authors: Tae Hyung Kim, Sung Gyu Moon, Hong-Geun Jung and Na Ra Kim
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:475
  13. One- and two-level lumbar interbody fusion with unilateral instrumentation is as effective as that with bilateral instrumentation. The height of the interbody cage influences the operated segment stability and...

    Authors: Lin Du, Xiao-jiang Sun, Tang-jun Zhou, Yuan-chao Li, Chen Chen, Chang-qing Zhao, Kai Zhang and Jie Zhao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:474
  14. With advancing stages of degeneration, denaturation and degradation of proteoglycans in the nucleus pulposus (NP) lead to tissue dehydration and signal intensity loss on T2-weighted MR images. Pfirrmann gradin...

    Authors: Shu-Hua Yang, Alejandro A. Espinoza Orías, Chien-Chou Pan, Issei Senoo, Gunnar B. J. Andersson, Howard S. An and Nozomu Inoue
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:473
  15. The proper choice of anesthesia for kyphoplasty remains controversy. There are only a few clinical studies specially focusing on and giving detailed information about this treatment under local anesthesia with...

    Authors: Guangzhou Li, Hao Liu, Qing Wang and Dejun Zhong
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:472
  16. Physiotherapy rehabilitation following surgical reconstruction to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) can take up to 12 months to complete. Given the lengthy rehabilitation process, a blended intervention can...

    Authors: Emma Dunphy, Fiona L. Hamilton, Irena Spasić and Kate Button
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:471
  17. Isolated radial head dislocation is a rare injury with an unclear pathomechanism, and the treatment is controversial. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the biomechanical contributions of the ...

    Authors: Naoki Hayami, Shohei Omokawa, Akio Iida, Jirachart Kraisarin, Hisao Moritomo, Pasuk Mahakkanukrauh, Takamasa Shimizu, Kenji Kawamura and Yasuhito Tanaka
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:470
  18. Previous studies on shoulder patients have suggested that the prevalence of rotator cuff or bursa abnormalities are weakly related to symptoms and that similar findings are often found in asymptomatic persons....

    Authors: Elisabeth Kvalvaag, Masoud Anvar, Anna Cecilia Karlberg, Jens Ivar Brox, Kaia Beck Engebretsen, Helene Lundgaard Soberg, Niels Gunnar Juel, Erik Bautz-Holter, Leiv Sandvik and Cecilie Roe
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:469
  19. Blunt trauma is the most frequent mechanism of injury in multiple trauma, commonly resulting from road traffic collisions or falls. Two of the most frequent injuries in patients with multiple trauma are chest ...

    Authors: Stefanie Fitschen-Oestern, Sebastian Lippross, Tim Klueter, Matthias Weuster, Deike Varoga, Mersedeh Tohidnezhad, Thomas Pufe, Stefan Rose-John, Hagen Andruszkow, Frank Hildebrand, Nadine Steubesand, Andreas Seekamp and Claudia Neunaber
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:468

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:72

  20. Although it is well known that quadriceps force generates anterior tibial force, it has been unclear whether quadriceps force causes great anterior tibial force during the early phase of a landing task. The pu...

    Authors: Ryo Ueno, Tomoya Ishida, Masanori Yamanaka, Shohei Taniguchi, Ryohei Ikuta, Mina Samukawa, Hiroshi Saito and Harukazu Tohyama
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:467
  21. Most people experience low back pain (LBP), and it is often ongoing or recurrent. Contemporary research knowledge indicates individual’s pain beliefs have a strong effect on their pain experience and managemen...

    Authors: Jenny Setchell, Nathalia Costa, Manuela Ferreira, Joanna Makovey, Mandy Nielsen and Paul W. Hodges
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:466
  22. Short-term studies have demonstrated good surgical outcomes after pedicle subtraction osteotomy (PSO) in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients, but there is a paucity of literature focused on middle-term result...

    Authors: Mu Qiao, Bang-ping Qian, Sai-hu Mao, Yong Qiu and Bin Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:465
  23. Malleolar fracture, which is present in 37–53% of human ankle osteoarthritis (OA), is the most common type of fracture in the ankle joint. In spite of this, no rat animal model has been developed for this type...

    Authors: Dawei Liang, Jian Sun, Fangyuan Wei, Jianzhong Zhang, Pengcui Li, Yingke Xu, Xianwen Shang, Jin Deng, Ting Zhao and Lei Wei
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:464
  24. The presence of a positive pivot shift after surgical repair of the ACL is considered an important indicator of a failed reconstruction. The ability to predict the result of a pivot shift test after an ACL rec...

    Authors: Thomas Branch, Shaun Stinton, Adrija Sharma, Frederic Lavoie, Christian Guier and Philippe Neyret
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:463
  25. To determine effects of allogeneic human chondrocytes expressing TGF-β1 (TG-C) on structural progression of MRI features of knee osteoarthritis over a 1 year period.

    Authors: A. Guermazi, G. Kalsi, J. Niu, M. D. Crema, R. O. Copeland, A. Orlando, M. J. Noh and F. W. Roemer
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:461
  26. We evaluated treatment of osteomyelitis in the foot in the presence of Charcot neuroarthropathy, a devastating condition with progressive degeneration and joint destruction. We hypothesized that there was a di...

    Authors: Martin Berli, Lazaros Vlachopoulos, Sabra Leupi, Thomas Böni and Charlotte Baltin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:460
  27. Recent morphological analyses of vertebrae in patients with scoliosis have revealed three-dimensional (3D) deformities in the vertebral bodies. However, it remains controversial whether these deformities are s...

    Authors: Takahiro Makino, Yusuke Sakai, Masafumi Kashii, Shota Takenaka, Kazuomi Sugamoto, Hideki Yoshikawa and Takashi Kaito
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:459
  28. The gluteus medius (GMED) affects hip function as an abductor. We evaluated muscle volume and degeneration of the GMED by using CT-based analysis and assessed factors that affect hip abductor strength in patie...

    Authors: Takako Momose, Yutaka Inaba, Hyonmin Choe, Naomi Kobayashi, Taro Tezuka and Tomoyuki Saito
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:457
  29. Idiopathic genu valgum is a frequently diagnosed growth disorder in adolescence. Whenever the possibilities of conservative therapy have been exhausted, leg straightening by means of hemiepiphysiodesis has bec...

    Authors: Dirk Zajonz, Eckehard Schumann, Magdalena Wojan, Fabian B. Kübler, Christoph Josten, Ulf Bühligen and Christoph E. Heyde
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:456
  30. Clinical observation of aberrant movement patterns during active forward bending is one criterion used to identify patients with non-specific low back pain suspected to have movement coordination impairment. T...

    Authors: Peemongkon Wattananon, David Ebaugh, Scott A. Biely, Susan S. Smith, Gregory E. Hicks and Sheri P. Silfies
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:455
  31. Treatment for patients with chronic low-back pain (LBP) is a public health issue. Intramuscular injections of botulinum toxin A (BoNT-A) have shown an analgesic effect on LBP in two previous randomized control...

    Authors: Mélanie Cogné, Hervé Petit, Alexandre Creuzé, Dominique Liguoro and Mathieu de Seze
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:454
  32. Clubfoot is one of the most common congenital deformities affecting mobility. It leads to pain and disability if untreated. The Ponseti method is widely used for the correction of clubfoot. There is variation ...

    Authors: Tracey Smythe, Debra Mudariki, Hannah Kuper, Christopher Lavy and Allen Foster
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:453
  33. Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common ailments that people experience in their lifetime. On the other hands, Sarcopenia also leads to several physical symptoms and contributes to reducing the quality o...

    Authors: Shinji Tanishima, Hiroshi Hagino, Hiromi Matsumoto, Chika Tanimura and Hideki Nagashima
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:452
  34. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the radiologic outcome of percutaneous medial hemi-epiphysiodesis using a transphyseal screw for the management of caput valgum associated with developmental dysplasia...

    Authors: Chang Ho Shin, Wan Kee Hong, Doo Jae Lee, Won Joon Yoo, In Ho Choi and Tae-Joon Cho
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:451
  35. Diffused-type giant cell tumor(Dt-GCT) is a rare, aggressive disorder of the joint synovium, bursa and tendon sheaths. Osseous erosions and subchondral cysts may develop as the result of synovium infiltration ...

    Authors: Xingchen Li, Yang Xu, Yuan Zhu and Xiangyang Xu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:450
  36. ADAMTS (a disintegrin and metalloprotease with thrombospondin motifs) proteins play an important pathological role in matrix degeneration. Aggrecan degradation is a significant and critical event in early-stag...

    Authors: Takuya Tajima, Tomohisa Sekimoto, Nami Yamaguchi, Noboru Taniguchi, Syuji Kurogi, Masugi Maruyama and Etsuo Chosa
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:449
  37. This cadaveric study aimed to demonstrate variation of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tibial attachment in the sagittal plane, and to analyze the radiographic landmarks which predict the sagittal locatio...

    Authors: Hyung Joon Cho, Tae Kyun Kim, Seung-Baik Kang, Min Uk Do and Chong Bum Chang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:448
  38. This study aims to investigate the technical feasibility of semi-quantitative and quantitative dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) in the assessment of longitudinal changes of marrow...

    Authors: Jingqi Zhu, Zuogang Xiong, Jiulong Zhang, Yuyou Qiu, Ting Hua and Guangyu Tang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:446
  39. Emergence of more autonomous roles for physiotherapists warrants more evidence regarding their diagnostic capabilities. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate diagnostic and surgical triage concordance between a phys...

    Authors: S. Décary, M. Fallaha, B. Pelletier, P. Frémont, J. Martel-Pelletier, J.-P. Pelletier, D. E. Feldman, M.-P. Sylvestre, P.-A. Vendittoli and F. Desmeules
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:445
  40. Osteoarthritis (OA) of the trapeziometacarpal joint (TMJ) is a disabling condition with a significant impact on quality of life. The optimal management of hand OA requires a combination of non-pharmacological ...

    Authors: Sara Tenti, Nicola Antonio Pascarelli, Stefano Giannotti, Mauro Galeazzi, Nicola Giordano and Antonella Fioravanti
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:444
  41. After septic failure of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and multiple revision operations resulting in impaired function, bone and/or soft-tissue damage a reconstruction with a revision arthroplasty might be impo...

    Authors: Sven Hungerer, Martin Kiechle, Christian von Rüden, Matthias Militz, Knut Beitzel and Mario Morgenstern
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:443
  42. The current study describes several surgical techniques for the treatment of the reverse Hill - Sachs lesion after posterior shoulder dislocation; we also aimed to present long term results followed for a mini...

    Authors: Markus Guehring, Simon Lambert, Ulrich Stoeckle and Patrick Ziegler
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:442
  43. Initial micromotion of a total hip replacement is associated with aseptic loosening. The use of bisphosphonates could be one way to reduce peri-implant bone resorption induced by micromotion. Bisphosphonates c...

    Authors: Thomas Jakobsen, Søren Kold, Juan Shiguetomi-Medina, Jorgen Baas, Kjeld Soballe and Ole Rahbek
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:441
  44. Avascular necrosis of the femoral head (AVNFH) occurs infrequently following femoral neck fracture. The association between AVNFH and dyslipidaemia remains controversial. Although major risk factors for AVNFH ...

    Authors: Chi Zhang, Xiaoxiao Zhu, Genwang Pei, Ping Xu, Xianshang Zeng, Lili Zhang, Nan Zhang, Dan Zeng, Lei Cao, Weiguang Yu and Xinchao Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:440
  45. Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) dislocations are common injuries of the shoulder associated with physical activity. The diagnosis of concomitant injuries proves complicated due to the prominent clinical symptoms...

    Authors: Jochen Markel, Tim Schwarting, Dominik Malcherczyk, Christian-Dominik Peterlein, Steffen Ruchholtz and Bilal Farouk El-Zayat
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:439
  46. Osteoarthritis (OA) and meniscal and ligament injuries of the knee are the two most common knee disorders in Korea. The aim of this study was to analyze the demographic characteristics, medical service use and...

    Authors: Chang Yong Suh, Yoon Jae Lee, Joon-Shik Shin, Jinho Lee, Me-riong Kim, Wonil Koh, Yun-Yeop Cha, Byung-Cheul Shin, Eui-Hyoung Hwang, Kristin Suhr, Mia Kim and In-Hyuk Ha
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:438
  47. There are more than 5 million motor vehicle collisions annually in the United States, resulting in more than 2 million injured occupants. The most common types of collisions are head-on impacts, rear-ends, sid...

    Authors: Rami Hashish and Hasan Badday
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:437

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