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  1. Within work sociology, several studies have addressed construction workers’ practices of masculinity, class, economy, safety risks and production. However, few studies have investigated room for agency in rela...

    Authors: Jeppe Zielinski Nguyen Ajslev, Roger Persson and Lars Louis Andersen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:13
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  2. Lumbar multifidus muscles (LMM) are important for spinal motion and stability. Low back pain (LBP) is often associated with fat infiltration in LMM. An increasing fat infiltration of LMM may lead to lumbar dys...

    Authors: Markus Hildebrandt, Gabriela Fankhauser, André Meichtry and Hannu Luomajoki
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:12
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  3. Chronic diseases and multimorbidity are increasingly common among persons in working age. This study explores the impact of type, number and combinations of chronic diseases with focus on the role of MSKD on (...

    Authors: Antje van der Zee-Neuen, Polina Putrik, Sofia Ramiro, Andras Keszei, Rob de Bie, Astrid Chorus and Annelies Boonen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:10
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  4. Well-designed studies of complications and readmission rates in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA) with osteonecrosis are lacking. Our objective was to examine if a diagnosis of osteonecrosis was...

    Authors: Jasvinder A. Singh, Jason Chen, Maria C. S. Inacio, Robert S. Namba and Elizabeth W. Paxton
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:8
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  5. In our current economic climate of scarce resources there is a lot of debate around the best - and most efficient - way of delivering care, which points patients towards the right physician at the earliest opp...

    Authors: R. Puchner, R. Hochreiter, H. Pieringer and A. Vavrovsky
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:7
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  6. The Digital X-ray Radiogrammetry (DXR) method measures the cortical bone thickness in the shafts of the metacarpals and has demonstrated its relevance in the assessment of hand bone loss caused by rheumatoid a...

    Authors: Alexander Pfeil, Hans Henrik Thodberg, Diane M. Renz, Lisa Reinhardt, Peter Oelzner, Gunter Wolf and Joachim Böttcher
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:6
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  7. There are indications of beneficial short-term effect of pre-operative exercise in reducing pain and improving activity of daily living after total hip replacement (THR) and total knee replacement (TKR) surger...

    Authors: Linda Fernandes, Ewa M. Roos, Søren Overgaard, Allan Villadsen and Rikke Søgaard
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:5
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  8. Our study aimed to investigate whether geometrical features (size, shape, or alignment parameters) of the femoral condyle affect the morphology of the trochlear groove.

    Authors: Zhe Du, Shichang Chen, Mengning Yan, Bing Yue, Yiming Zeng and You Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:4
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  9. To identify predictive factors of response to viscosupplementation (VS) in patients with hip osteoarthritis (HOA).

    Authors: Florent Eymard, Bernard Maillet, Henri Lellouche, Sylvie Mellac-Ducamp, Olivier Brocq, Damien Loeuille, Xavier Chevalier and Thierry Conrozier
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:3
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  10. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of choline-stabilized orthosilicic acid (ch-OSA) in patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA).

    Authors: Piet Geusens, Karel Pavelka, Jozef Rovensky, Johan Vanhoof, Nathalie Demeester, Mario Calomme and Dirk Vanden Berghe
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:2
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  12. 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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  13. Studies reported contradictory results for the prognostic significance of a pathological fracture in osteosarcoma patients. The aim of this study is to report the outcomes for a cohort of patients with osteosa...

    Authors: Lien-Hsiang Chung, Po-Kuei Wu, Cheng-Fong Chen, Hung-Kai Weng, Tain-Hsiung Chen and Wei-Ming Chen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:503
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  14. Chronic post-traumatic and postoperative osteomyelitis is a refractory disease which results in significant morbidity and mortality. The effect of combination therapy with vancomycin-loaded calcium sulfate and...

    Authors: Shanchao Luo, Tongmeng Jiang, Yingnian Yang, Xiaoping Yang and Jinmin Zhao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:502
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  15. Epidemiological studies have shown that patient transfer is a risk factor for back pain, back injuries and long term sickness absence, whereas consistent use of assistive devices during patient transfer seems ...

    Authors: Markus D. Jakobsen, Birgit Aust, Johnny Dyreborg, Pete Kines, Maja B. Illum and Lars L. Andersen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:501
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  16. The aim of the present study was to provide an overview of the literature addressing the role of genetic factors and biomarkers predicting pain recovery in newly diagnosed lumbar radicular pain (LRP) patients.

    Authors: Siri Bjorland, Aurora Moen, Elina Schistad, Johannes Gjerstad and Cecilie Røe
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:500
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  17. Adverse reactions to metal debris (ARMD) have resulted in the high short-term failure rates observed with metal-on-metal hip replacements. ARMD has recently been reported in non-metal-on-metal total hip replac...

    Authors: Gulraj S. Matharu, Hemant G. Pandit, David W. Murray and Andrew Judge
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:495
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  18. Symptoms and prognosis of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have improved with more intensive therapy, including the biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs). Real life data concerning...

    Authors: Karin Bengtsson, Lennart T. H. Jacobsson, Barbro Rydberg, Göran Kvist, Tomas Torstenson, Mats Dehlin, Elisabet Hilme, Anna Lindhé, Susanna Maria Wallerstedt and Helena Forsblad-d’Elia
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:499
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  19. Compromised bone stock and heavily impaired structural integrity after multiple endoprosthetic revision surgeries can lead to a comparable condition as encountered in musculoskeletal tumor surgery. Total femor...

    Authors: Andreas Toepfer, Norbert Harrasser, Isabel Petzschner, Florian Pohlig, Ulrich Lenze, Ludger Gerdesmeyer, Dominik Pförringer, Marcel Toepfer, Marc Beirer, Moritz Crönlein, Ruediger von Eisenhart-Rothe and Heinz Mühlhofer
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:498
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  20. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) constitute a major occupational health problem in the working population, substantially impacting the quality of life of employees. They also cause considerable economic cost t...

    Authors: Charlotte Lanhers, Bruno Pereira, Chloé Gay, Christian Hérisson, Christine Levyckyj, Arnaud Dupeyron and Emmanuel Coudeyre
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:497
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  21. Prolonged static sitting in a wheelchair is associated with an increased risk of lower back pain. The wheelchair seating system is a key factor of this risk because it affects spinal loading in the sitting pos...

    Authors: Chun-Ting Li, Yao-Te Peng, Yen-Ting Tseng, Yen-Nien Chen and Kuen-Horng Tsai
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:496
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  22. Arthritis is a gendered disease where women have a higher prevalence and more disability than men with arthritis of the same age. Health survey data is a major source of information for monitoring of the burde...

    Authors: TKT Lo, Lynne Parkinson, Michelle Cunich and Julie Byles
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:494
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  23. Lumbar spondylosis is more prevalent among the middle-aged and elderly, but few population-based studies have been conducted, especially in Japan. The purpose of this study was to explore the prevalence of lum...

    Authors: Ritsu Tsujimoto, Yasuyo Abe, Kazuhiko Arima, Takayuki Nishimura, Masato Tomita, Akihiko Yonekura, Takashi Miyamoto, Shohei Matsubayashi, Natsumi Tanaka, Kiyoshi Aoyagi and Makoto Osaki
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:493
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  24. Supra/interspinous ligaments connect adjacent spinous processes and act as a stabilizer of the spine. As with other spinal ligaments, it can become ossified. However, few report have discussed ossification sup...

    Authors: Kanji Mori, Toshitaka Yoshii, Takashi Hirai, Akio Iwanami, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Tsuyoshi Yamada, Shoji Seki, Takashi Tsuji, Kanehiro Fujiyoshi, Mitsuru Furukawa, Soraya Nishimura, Kanichiro Wada, Masao Koda, Takeo Furuya, Yukihiro Matsuyama, Tomohiko Hasegawa…
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:492
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  25. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD), which is two-fold higher than general population. The driving cause of SCD was considered due to lift-threatening arrh...

    Authors: Ting-Tse Lin, Yen-Ling Sung, Chih-En Wu, Hong Zhang, Yen-Bin Liu and Shien-Fong Lin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:491
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  26. For patients with chronic pain, the heterogeneity of clinical presentations makes it difficult to identify patients who would benefit from multimodal rehabilitation programs (MMRP). Yet, there is limited knowl...

    Authors: Björn Gerdle, Peter Molander, Gunilla Stenberg, Britt-Marie Stålnacke and Paul Enthoven
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:490
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  27. Osteoporosis, osteoporosis-related fractures, and diabetes are considerable health burdens in Japan. Diabetes in patients with osteoporosis has been reported to be associated with increased fracture risk. This...

    Authors: Masayo Sato, Wenyu Ye, Tomoko Sugihara and Yoshitaka Isaka
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:489
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  29. Fluid in the subcutaneous fat is a common finding anterior to the knee on MRI. This may be caused by chronic low-grade shearing injuries in patients who are overweight. The purpose of this study was to determi...

    Authors: Trevor Gaunt, Frank Carey, John Cahir and Andoni Toms
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:487
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:1

  30. All implant compounds undergo an electrochemical process when in contact with biological fluids, as well as mechanical corrosion due to abrasive wear, with production of metal debris that may inhibit repair pr...

    Authors: Anna Maria Carossino, Christian Carulli, Simone Ciuffi, Roberto Carossino, Giorgia Donata Zappoli Thyrion, Roberto Zonefrati, Massimo Innocenti and Maria Luisa Brandi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:486
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  31. The overlap syndrome of primary biliary cholangitis (formerly called primary biliary cirrhosis) and primary sclerosing cholangitis is an extremely rare condition that has never been described in association wi...

    Authors: Teresa Del Ross, Amelia Ruffatti, Annarosa Floreani, Ariela Hoxha and Leonardo Punzi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:485
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  32. Patients with lower extremity amputation frequently suffer from socket-related problems. This seriously limits prosthesis use, level of activity and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). An additional proble...

    Authors: Ruud A. Leijendekkers, J. Bart Staal, Gerben van Hinte, Jan Paul Frölke, Hendrik van de Meent, Femke Atsma, Maria W. G. Nijhuis-van der Sanden and Thomas J. Hoogeboom
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:484
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  33. In severe injuries with loss of tendon substance a tendon graft or a synthetic substitute is usually used to restore functional length. This is usually associated with donor site morbidity, host tissue reactio...

    Authors: Sherif Elnikety, Catherine J. Pendegrass, Roberta Ferro de Godoy, Charles Holden and Gordon W. Blunn
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:483
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  34. The aim of this study was to evaluate potential benefits of a new diagnostic software prototype (Trauma Viewer, TV) automatically reformatting computed tomography (CT) data on diagnostic speed and quality, com...

    Authors: Moritz Crönlein, Konstantin Holzapfel, Marc Beirer, Lukas Postl, Karl-Georg Kanz, Dominik Pförringer, Stefan Huber-Wagner, Peter Biberthaler and Chlodwig Kirchhoff
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:482
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  35. Musculoskeletal disorders including low back pain have major individual and socioeconomic consequences as it often leads to disability and long-term sick leave and exclusion from working life. Predictors of di...

    Authors: Jon Opsahl, Hege R. Eriksen and Torill H. Tveito
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:481
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  36. Changes to the integrity of the acromioclavicular (AC) joint impact scapulothoracic and clavicular kinematics. AC ligaments provide anterior-posterior stability, while the coracoclavicular (CC) ligaments provi...

    Authors: Kempland C. Walley, Babak Haghpanah, Andreas Hingsammer, Ethan R. Harlow, Ashkan Vaziri, Joseph P. DeAngelis, Ara Nazarian and Arun J. Ramappa
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:480
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  37. Bone marrow lesions (BMLs) in knee osteoarthritis (OA) can be assessed using fluid sensitive and contrast enhanced sequences. The association between BMLs and symptoms has been investigated in several studies ...

    Authors: Flemming K. Nielsen, Niels Egund, Anette Jørgensen, David A. Peters and Anne Grethe Jurik
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:479
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  38. Following hip or knee arthroplasty, it is clinically warranted to get patients functional as quickly as possible. However, valid tools to assess function shortly after knee or hip arthroplasty are lacking. The...

    Authors: Stéphane Poitras, Kristi S. Wood, Jacinthe Savard, Geoffrey F. Dervin and Paul E. Beaulé
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:478
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  39. Leading theories about the pathogenesis of fibromyalgia focus on central nervous dysregulation or sensitization, which can cause altered perception. There is growing evidence that fibromyalgia involves altered...

    Authors: Magne Stranden, HÃ¥vard Solvin, Egil A. Fors, Linn Getz and Anne-S. Helvik
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:477
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  40. Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is one of the most successful orthopaedic procedures. Because of the increasing number of THAs, a growing demand for faster recovery and a greater emphasis on cost-effectiveness, m...

    Authors: K. Rykov, I. H. F. Reininga, B. A. S. Knobben, M. S. Sietsma and B. L. E. F. ten Have
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:476
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  41. Hip fracture is a severe and common injury that occurs predominantly in the elderly. Blood loss in the perioperative period is associated with a greater risk of dying in anaemic patients. The aim of the study ...

    Authors: Leyi Cai, Te Wang, Lu Di, Wei Hu and Jianshun Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:475
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  42. Hyaline cartilage calcification (CC) is associated with osteoarthritis (OA) in hip and knee joints. The first metatarsophalangeal joint (1stMTPJ) is frequently affected by OA, but it is unclear if CC occurs in th...

    Authors: Jan Hubert, Thelonius Hawellek, Sandra Hischke, Jessica Bertrand, Matthias Krause, Klaus Püschel, Wolfgang Rüther and Andreas Niemeier
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:474
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  43. In the absence of disease-modifying interventions for hand osteoarthritis (OA), occupational therapy (OT) comprising patient education, hand exercises, assistive devices and orthoses are considered as core tre...

    Authors: Ingvild Kjeken, Ruth Else Mehl Eide, Åse Klokkeide, Karin Hoegh Matre, Monika Olsen, Petter Mowinckel, Øyvor Andreassen, Siri Darre and Randi Nossum
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:473
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:68

  44. Physiotherapists are commonly involved in the management of patients immediately following lumbar spinal surgery. There is however, very little research to guide physiotherapy intervention in the acute post-op...

    Authors: Sarah Gilmore, Jodie A. McClelland and Megan Davidson
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:472
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  45. The direct anterior approach (DAA) is increasingly popular for hip replacement. However, the small incision and the location near to the groin might increase the risk of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). W...

    Authors: Thomas Ilchmann, Werner Zimmerli, Lilianna Bolliger, Peter Graber and Martin Clauss
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:471
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  46. The American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) annual scientific meetings are premier forums whereby orthopaedic surgeons are informed of the latest research advances in shoulder and elbow surgery. The purpos...

    Authors: Jeffrey Kay, Muzammil Memon, Darren de SA, Nicole Simunovic, George S. Athwal, Asheesh Bedi and Olufemi R. Ayeni
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:470
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  47. Dupuytren’s disease (DD) is a complex fibro-proliferative disorder of the hand that is often progressive and eventually can cause contractures of the affected fingers. Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β1) has...

    Authors: Chaoming Zhou, Fang Liu, Phillip H. Gallo, Mark E. Baratz, Sandeep Kathju and Latha Satish
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:469
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  48. Foot pain is a common problem affecting up to 1 in 5 adults and is known to adversely affect activities of daily living and health related quality of life. Orthopaedic footwear interventions are used as a cons...

    Authors: Vivienne Helaine Chuter, Angela Searle and Martin J. Spink
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:468
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  49. The use of corticosteroids (e.g., dexamethasone) as treatment for tendinopathy has recently been questioned as higher risks for ruptures have been observed clinically. In vitro studies have reported that dexam...

    Authors: Christoph Spang, Jialin Chen and Ludvig J. Backman
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:467
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  50. To describe the scoring methodology and MRI assessments used to evaluate the cross-sectional features observed in cases and controls, to define change over time for different MRI features, and to report the ex...

    Authors: Frank W. Roemer, Ali Guermazi, Jamie E. Collins, Elena Losina, Michael C. Nevitt, John A. Lynch, Jeffrey N. Katz, C. Kent Kwoh, Virginia B. Kraus and David J. Hunter
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:466
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