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  1. The aim of this study was to quantitatively evaluate and characterize the dimension and signal intensity of anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL) using 3.0 T MRI in the mechanical ankle instability group pre- a...

    Authors: Wei Liu, Hong Li and Yinghui Hua
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:397
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  2. This study systematically summarizes quantitative imaging biomarker research in non-traumatic neck and shoulder musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). There were two research questions: 1) Are there quantitative im...

    Authors: Judith E. Gold, David M. Hallman, Fredrik Hellström, Martin Björklund, Albert G. Crenshaw, Svend Erik Mathiassen, Mary F. Barbe and Sayed Ali
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:395
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  3. Neuroimmune axis is central in the physiopathology of hip osteoarthritis (OA), but its specific pathways are still unclear. This systematic review aims to assess the nervous and immune system profile of patien...

    Authors: Manuel Ribeiro da Silva, Daniela Linhares, Daniel Marques Vasconcelos, Cecilia Juliana Alves, Nuno Neves, Gilberto Costa and Meriem Lamghari
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:394
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  4. Burst fracture is a common thoracolumbar injury that is treated using posterior pedicle instrumentation and fusion combined with transpedicular intracorporeal grafting after reduction. In this study, we compar...

    Authors: Ping-Jui Tsai, Ming-Kai Hsieh, Kuo-Feng Fan, Lih-Huei Chen, Chia-Wei Yu, Po-Liang Lai, Chi-Chien Niu, Tsung-Ting Tsai and Wen-Jer Chen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:393
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  5. Subchondral osteopenia is important for the pathophysiology of osteoarthritis (OA). Although previous studies suggest that plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), an inhibitor of fibrinolysis, is related to...

    Authors: Akihiro Moritake, Naoyuki Kawao, Kiyotaka Okada, Kohei Tatsumi, Masayoshi Ishida, Katsumi Okumoto, Osamu Matsuo, Masao Akagi and Hiroshi Kaji
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:392
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  6. There is still no evidence in literature for damage control orthopaedics (DCO), early total care (ETC) or using external fixation solely in fractures of the long bones in multi-system-trauma. The aim of this s...

    Authors: Bernhard Gasser, Thomas M. Tiefenboeck, Sandra Boesmueller, Danijel Kivaranovic, Adam Bukaty and Patrick Platzer
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:391
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  7. Musculoskeletal ultrasound improves the accuracy of detecting the level of disease activity (DA) in RA patients, although its impact on the final treatment decision in a real clinical setting is uncertain. The...

    Authors: C. Sifuentes-Cantú, I. Contreras-Yáñez, L. Saldarriaga, A.C. Lozada, M. Gutiérrez and V. Pascual-Ramos
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:390
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  8. Malalignment of the ankle joint has been found after trauma, by neurological disorders, genetic predisposition and other unidentified factors, and results in asymmetrical joint loading. For a medial open wedge...

    Authors: Hak Jun Kim, Eui Dong Yeo, Im Joo Rhyu, Soon-Hyuck Lee, Yeon Soo Lee and Young Koo Lee
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:389
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  9. High procedure volume and dedication to unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) has been suggested to improve revision rates. This study aimed to quantify the annual hospital volume effect on revision risk in...

    Authors: Mona Badawy, Anne M. Fenstad, Christoffer A. Bartz-Johannessen, Kari Indrekvam, Leif I. Havelin, Otto Robertsson, Annette W-Dahl, Antti Eskelinen, Keijo Mäkelä, Alma B. Pedersen, Henrik M. Schrøder and Ove Furnes
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:388
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  10. The objectives are to compare the efficacy of intra-articular hyaluronic acid (IA-HA) alone and in combination with anti-inflammatory drugs (IA-HA + AI), corticosteroids (CS) or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory...

    Authors: Thippaporn Euppayo, Veerasak Punyapornwithaya, Siriwadee Chomdej, Siriwan Ongchai and Korakot Nganvongpanit
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:387
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  11. The purpose of this study was to evaluate 10-year outcomes in cementless monobloc total hip arthroplasty (THA) in a group of hips with Legg-Calve-Perthes disease (LCPD).

    Authors: Ze-Yu Luo, Hao-Yang Wang, Duan Wang, Hui Pan, Fu-Xing Pei and Zong-Ke Zhou
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:386
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  12. The major types of commercially available gelatin hydrolysates are prepared from mammals or fish. Dietary gelatin hydrolysates from mammals were reported to improve bone mineral density (BMD) in some animal mo...

    Authors: Teruyuki Noma, Satoshi Takasugi, Miho Shioyama, Taketo Yamaji, Hiroyuki Itou, Yoshio Suzuki, Keishoku Sakuraba and Keisuke Sawaki
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:385
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  13. Mechanical neck pain is a highly prevalent problem in primary healthcare settings. Many of these patients have restricted mobility of the cervical spine. Several manual techniques have been recommended for res...

    Authors: Vanessa González Rueda, Carlos López de Celis, Martín Eusebio Barra López, Andoni Carrasco Uribarren, Sara Castillo Tomás and Cesar Hidalgo García
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:384
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  14. Hip and knee replacements in patients with bone defects after infection correlates with high rates of reinfection. In this vulnerable patient population, the prevention of reinfection is to be considered super...

    Authors: Dirk Zajonz, Undine Birke, Mohamed Ghanem, Torsten Prietzel, Christoph Josten, Andreas Roth and Johannes K.M. Fakler
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:383
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  15. The present study aimed to identify the risk factors associated with revision total hip arthroplasty (THA) failure using a Kerboull-type (KT) plate.

    Authors: Shinya Hayashi, Takayuki Nishiyama, Shingo Hashimoto, Tomoyuki Matsumoto, Koji Takayama, Kazunari Ishida, Kotaro Nishida and Ryosuke Kuroda
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:382
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  16. Musculoskeletal infections remain a major complication in orthopedic surgery. The local delivery of antibiotics provides the high levels required to treat an infection without systemic toxicity. However, the l...

    Authors: Tomas Kucera, Lenka Ryskova, Tomas Soukup, Jana Malakova, Eva Cermakova, Pavel Mericka, Jakub Suchanek and Pavel Sponer
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:381
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  17. There is a substantive lack of knowledge about comorbidity in patients with frozen shoulder. The aim of this study was to investigate whether subjective health complaints and Neuroticism would predict treatmen...

    Authors: Satya Pal Sharma, Rolf Moe-Nilssen, Alice Kvåle and Anders Bærheim
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:380
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  18. During the course of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), patients have profound negative effects on their patient-reported-outcomes (PRO); in addition, the impact of sustained remission (SR) on PROs may differ for each...

    Authors: Irazú Contreras-Yáñez, Guillermo Guaracha-Basañez, Daniel Ruiz-Domínguez and Virginia Pascual-Ramos
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:379
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  19. Total joint arthroplasty is associated with significant blood loss and often requires blood transfusion. However, allogeneic blood transfusion (ABT) may lead to severe problems, such as immunoreaction and infe...

    Authors: Weiping Ji, Xianfeng Lin, Ruoxia Zhang, Pan Tang, Jian Mo, Xinyi Teng, Qiuping Fan, Bo Wang, Shunwu Fan, Jianfeng Zhang, Shuai Chen and Kangmao Huang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:378
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  20. Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a degenerative knee disease commonly found in the ageing population. DNA methylation works with histone acetylation to participate in aging. Alterations of DNA methylation may invo...

    Authors: Xinxin Wang, Dezhi Tang, Peng Shen, Hao Xu, Hongfu Qiu, Tao Wu and Xiang Gao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:377
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  21. Fibroma of tendon sheath (FTS) is a benign tumor arising from the synovium of the tendon sheath that occurs mostly around small joints such as the fingers, hands, and wrist. However, FTS rarely arises around a...

    Authors: Kayo Suzuki, Taketoshi Yasuda, Shun Suzawa, Kenta Watanabe, Masahiko Kanamori and Tomoatsu Kimura
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:376
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  22. Early detection of a high-risk patient following hip fracture surgery is of paramount clinical importance. American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) grading is an easy and efficient index in predicting a wor...

    Authors: Hyung-Min Ji, Jun Han, Hi-Won Bae and Ye-Yeon Won
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:375
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  23. To determine the safety and efficacy of collagenase clostridium histolyticum (CCH) injection for the treatment of palmar Dupuytren disease nodules.

    Authors: Bronier Costas, Stephen Coleman, Greg Kaufman, Robert James, Brian Cohen and R. Glenn Gaston
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:374
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  24. Inclination and anteversion were the main factors that determined the reliability of the acetabulum. Inclination and anteversion measurements included anatomical, operational and radiographic methods. The aim ...

    Authors: R. Y. Wang, W. H. Xu, X. C. Kong, L. Yang and S. H. Yang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:373
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  25. Many studies suggest that impairment of motor control is the mechanical component of the pathogenesis of painful disorders in the lumbo-sacral region; however, this theory is still unproven and the results and...

    Authors: Jan M. A. Mens and Annelies Pool-Goudzwaard
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:372
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  26. Clinical and radiological outcomes including fixation stability of osteotomy site were compared in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients who underwent modified Ludloff osteotomy to correct hallux valgus with oste...

    Authors: Young-Hoon Jo, Ki-Chul Park, Young-Sik Song and Il-Hoon Sung
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:371
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  27. This study uses virtual touch imaging quantification (VTIQ) technology for the first time to conduct measurements of the trapezius and erector spinae muscles in a large study population. The significance of va...

    Authors: Anne Heizelmann, Sümeyra Tasdemir, Julian Schmidberger, Tilmann Gräter, Wolfgang Kratzer and Beate Grüner
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:370
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  28. Low back pain (LBP) affects more than one third of the population at any given time, and chronic LBP is responsible for increased medical costs, functional limitations and decreased quality of life. A clear et...

    Authors: Katie Mitchell, Madeline Porter, Lauren Anderson, Carter Phillips, Grayson Arceo, Brian Montz, Susan Levy and Sara P. Gombatto
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:369
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  29. Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a well characterized spinal deformity that affects millions of children world-wide. The role of genetic factor in the development of AIS has been of great interest, sin...

    Authors: Leilei Xu, Chao Xia, Weiguo Zhu, Zhenhua Feng, Xiaodong Qin, Weixiang Sun, Yong Qiu and Zezhang Zhu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:368
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  30. Patients’ perceptions of care is an important factor in evaluation of health care, in quality assessment, and in improvement efforts. Expectations of assessments or procedures such as surgery have been found t...

    Authors: Karin S Samsson, Susanne Bernhardsson and Maria EH Larsson
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:367
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  32. Foot involvement in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients has been reported to severely affect functional capacity and quality of life. We aimed to determine the impact of midfoot and hindfoot involvement on func...

    Authors: Hye-Jin Jeong, Il Woong Sohn, Dam Kim, Soo-Kyung Cho, Si-Bog Park, Il-Hoon Sung and Yoon-Kyoung Sung
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:365
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  33. In treatment of unstable trochanteric fractures dynamic hip screw and Medoff sliding plate devices are designed to allow secondary fracture impaction, whereas intramedullary nails aim to maintain fracture alig...

    Authors: Johnny Paulsson, Josefine Corin Stig and Ola Olsson
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:364
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  34. In our hospital a fast-track setting including a multimodal pain protocol is used for total hip arthroplasty (THA). Despite this multimodal pain protocol there is still a large range in reported postoperative ...

    Authors: Yvon M. den Hartog, Gerjon Hannink, Nick T. van Dasselaar, Nina M. Mathijssen and Stephan B. Vehmeijer
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:363
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  35. To date, no study had reported the phenomenon of deteriorated postoperative cervical tilt in Lenke type 2 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the cervical tilt in...

    Authors: Jun Jiang, Bang-ping Qian, Yong Qiu, Bin Wang, Yang Yu and Ze-zhang Zhu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:362
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  36. The Direct Anterior Approach (DAA) is an alternative approach to the currently most used Lateral Approach (LA) for hip replacement in femoral neck fracture patients. Compared to the LA, the DAA minimizes soft ...

    Authors: Max P. L. van der Sijp, Inger B. Schipper, Stefan B. Keizer, Pieta Krijnen and Arthur H.P. Niggebrugge
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:361
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  37. Low back pain (LBP) is a common cause of contact with the primary healthcare sector. In some patients, symptoms quickly resolve, but others develop long-lasting pain and disability. To improve the care pathway...

    Authors: Allan Riis, Michael Skovdal Rathleff, Cathrine Elgaard Jensen and Martin Bach Jensen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:360
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  38. Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is the recommended treatment for end-stage knee osteoarthritis. Considering the various risks associated with intra and postoperative blood transfusions, better understanding is r...

    Authors: Syed Hamza Mufarrih, Nada Qaisar Qureshi, Arif Ali, Azeem Tariq Malik, Huda Naim and Shahryar Noordin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:359
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  40. Investigate the prevalence and risk factors of low bone mineral density (BMD) in patients with axial spondyloarthritis as well as investigating the prevalence of vertebral fractures.

    Authors: Sandrine Malochet-Guinamand, Bruno Pereira, Zuzana Tatar, Anne Tournadre, Anna Moltó, Maxime Dougados and Martin Soubrier
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:357
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  41. Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has become the treatment of choice for end-stage hemophilic arthropathy of the knee. Theoretically in hemophilia A, perioperative continuous infusion (CI) of factor VIII (FVIII) w...

    Authors: Young Shil Park, Won-Ju Shin and Kang-Il Kim
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:356
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  42. Hamstring injuries are the most common muscle injury in amateur and professional soccer. Most hamstring injuries occur in the late swing phase, when the hamstring undergoes a stretch-shortening cycle and the h...

    Authors: S. Van de Hoef, B. M. A. Huisstede, M. S. Brink, N. de Vries, E. A. Goedhart and F. J. G. Backx
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:355
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  43. Second opinions may improve quality of patient care. The primary objective of this study was to determine the concordance between first and second diagnoses and opinions regarding need for spinal surgery among...

    Authors: Mario Lenza, Rachelle Buchbinder, Margaret P. Staples, Oscar F.P. dos Santos, Reynaldo A. Brandt, Claudio L. Lottenberg, Miguel Cendoroglo and Mario Ferretti
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:354
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  44. To cross-culturally adapt and validate the Singapore Chinese and Singapore English versions of the Ankylosing Spondylitis Quality of Life (ASQoL) scales.

    Authors: Ying Ying Leung, Weixian Lee, Nai Lee Lui, Matthew Rouse, Stephen P. McKenna and Julian Thumboo
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:353
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  45. Previously, many studies have evaluated quality of life (QoL) in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), however, none of them specifically investigated the correlation between pain-related disability measu...

    Authors: Ji-chen Huang, Bang-ping Qian, Yong Qiu, Bin Wang, Yang Yu, Ze-Zhang Zhu, Jun Hu and Zhe Qu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:352
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  46. Infected non-unions of the supracondylar region of the femur are uncommon. Even though hardware removal is a common procedure, it may lead to complications, including neurovascular injury, refracture, worsenin...

    Authors: Vincenzo Denaro, Umile Giuseppe Longo, Giuseppe Salvatore, Vincenzo Candela and Nicola Maffulli
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:351
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  48. Musculoskeletal [MSK] injuries are common causes of long-term pain and physical disability which affect many people worldwide. The economic and social impacts on the individual, society and national health sys...

    Authors: Eric Lawer Torgbenu, Emmanuel K. Nakua, Henry Kyei, Eric Badu and Maxwell Peprah Opoku
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:349
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  50. Braces are used to treat pain in patellofemoral joint osteoarthritis (PFJOA). In a trial, we previously reported pain improvement after 6-weeks brace use. The pain reduction did not correlate with changes in M...

    Authors: Vikram Swaminathan, Matthew J Parkes, Michael J Callaghan, Terence W O’Neill, Richard Hodgson, Andrew D Gait and David T Felson
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:347
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