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  1. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease, which affects 1% of the population. Hands and feet are most commonly involved followed by the cervical spine. The spinal column consists of vertebrae sta...

    Authors: Jasper FC Wolfs, Wilco C Peul, Maarten Boers, Maurits W van Tulder, Ronald Brand, Hans JC van Houwelingen and Raph TWM Thomeer
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006 7:14
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  3. The Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI) is a self-report measure developed to evaluate patients with shoulder pathology. While some validation has been conducted, broader analyses are indicated. This st...

    Authors: Joy C MacDermid, Patty Solomon and Kenneth Prkachin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006 7:12
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  4. Recently a clinical prediction rule (CPR) has been developed and validated that accurately identifies patients with low back pain (LBP) that are likely to benefit from a lumbo-pelvic thrust manipulation. The s...

    Authors: Joshua A Cleland, Julie M Fritz, John D Childs and Kornelia Kulig
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006 7:11
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  5. Both diabetes and obesity syndromes are recognized to promote lumbar vertebral instability, premature osteodegeneration, exacerbate progressive osteoporosis and increase the propensity towards vertebral degene...

    Authors: Katherine M Burkemper and David R Garris
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006 7:10
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  6. The one leg hop for distance is one of the most commonly employed functional tests utilized in the evaluation of the ACL deficient and reconstructed patient. While the reliability of the hop test scores has be...

    Authors: Siobhan O'Donnell, Scott G Thomas and Paul Marks
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006 7:9
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  7. The correlations between the sagittal jaw position and the cranio – cervical inclination are described in literature. Only few studies focus on the sagittal jaw position and the body posture using valid and ob...

    Authors: Carsten Lippold, Gholamreza Danesh, Markus Schilgen, Burkhard Drerup and Lars Hackenberg
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006 7:8
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  8. A systematic appraisal of the worldwide incidence and prevalence rates of UEDs available in scientific literature was executed to gauge the range of these estimates in various countries and to determine whethe...

    Authors: Bionka MA Huisstede, Sita MA Bierma-Zeinstra, Bart W Koes and Jan AN Verhaar
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006 7:7
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  9. Chronic diseases like osteoarthritis (OA) substantially affect different dimensions of quality of life (QoL). The aim of the study was to reveal possible factors which mainly influence general practitioners (G...

    Authors: Thomas Rosemann, Stefanie Joos, Thorsten Koerner, Joachim Szecsenyi and Gunter Laux
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006 7:6
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  10. The treatment of non-specific chronic low back pain is often based on three different models regarding the development and maintenance of pain and especially functional limitations: the deconditioning model, t...

    Authors: Rob JEM Smeets, Johan WS Vlaeyen, Alita Hidding, Arnold DM Kester, Geert JMG van der Heijden, Antonia CM van Geel and J André Knottnerus
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006 7:5
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  12. The child's lower limb is the most commonly reported musculoskeletal location with pain and also the most commonly injured site in sports. Some potential risk factors have been studied, but the results are inc...

    Authors: Ashraf El-Metwally, Jouko J Salminen, Anssi Auvinen, Hannu Kautiainen and Marja Mikkelsson
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006 7:3
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  13. The echogenicity patterns of ultrasound scans contain information of tissue composition in muscles. The aim was: (1) to develop a quantitative ultrasound image analysis to characterize tissue composition in te...

    Authors: Pernille Kofoed Nielsen, Bente R Jensen, Tron Darvann, Kurt Jørgensen and Merete Bakke
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006 7:2
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  14. Minimally-invasive measurement of continuous inter-vertebral motion in clinical settings is difficult to achieve. This paper describes the reliability, validity and radiation exposure levels in a new Objective...

    Authors: Alan C Breen, Jennifer M Muggleton and Fiona E Mellor
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2006 7:1
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  15. There is a need for evidence of clinical effectiveness of foot orthosis therapy. This study evaluated the effect of foot orthoses made by ten podiatrists, ten pedorthists and eleven orthotists on plantar press...

    Authors: Nick A Guldemond, Pieter Leffers, Nicolaas C Schaper, Antal P Sanders, Fred HM Nieman and Geert HIM Walenkamp
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:61
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  16. Differences in overall performance of osteochondral photooxidized grafts were studied in accordance of their species origin and a new, more rigorous cleansing procedure using alcohol during preparation.

    Authors: Anja C Waselau, Daniel Nadler, Jessika MV Müller, Katalin Zlinszky, Monika Hilbe, Jörg A Auer and Brigitte von Rechenberg
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:60
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  17. Reproducibility measurements of the range of motion are an important prerequisite for the interpretation of study results. The aim of the study is to assess the intra-rater and inter-rater reproducibility of t...

    Authors: Jan Lucas Hoving, Jan JM Pool, Henk van Mameren, Walter JLM Devillé, Willem JJ Assendelft, Henrica CW de Vet, Andrea F de Winter, Bart W Koes and Lex M Bouter
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:59
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  18. The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term efficacy and tolerability of etoricoxib, a COX-2 selective inhibitor, in osteoarthritis (OA) patients.

    Authors: Sean P Curtis, Barry Bockow, Chester Fisher, Joseph Olaleye, Amy Compton, Amy T Ko and Alise S Reicin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:58
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  19. Acute low back pain is a common condition resulting in pain and disability. Current national and international guidelines advocate general practitioner care including advice and paracetamol (4 g daily in other...

    Authors: Mark J Hancock, Christopher G Maher, Jane Latimer, Andrew J McLachlan, Chris W Cooper, Richard O Day, Megan F Spindler and James H McAuley
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:57
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  20. Musculoskeletal physiotherapists routinely assess lumbar segmental motion during the clinical examination of a patient with low back pain. The validity of manual assessment of segmental motion has not, however...

    Authors: J Haxby Abbott, Brendan McCane, Peter Herbison, Graeme Moginie, Cathy Chapple and Tracy Hogarty
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:56
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  21. Many older people have chronic knee pain. Both topical and oral non- steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly used to treat this. Oral NSAIDS are effective, at least in the short term, but can h...

    Authors: Pamela L Cross, Deborah Ashby, Geoff Harding, Enid M Hennessy, Louise Letley, Suzanne Parsons, Anne E Spencer and Martin Underwood
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:55
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  22. While one in ten Australians suffer from chronic low back pain this condition remains extremely difficult to treat. Many contemporary treatments are of unknown value. One potentially useful therapy is the use ...

    Authors: Chris G Maher, Jane Latimer, Paul W Hodges, Kathryn M Refshauge, G Lorimer Moseley, Robert D Herbert, Leonardo OP Costa and James McAuley
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:54
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  23. Longstanding musculoskeletal pain is common in the general population and associated with frequent use of health care. Plain radiography is a common diagnostic approach in these patients despite knowledge that...

    Authors: Hans Lindgren and Stefan Bergman
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:53
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  24. There is a large increase in back pain reporting in the early teens. In no previous study has the prevalence of low back pain been investigated in relation to the onset of puberty. The objective of this study ...

    Authors: Niels Wedderkopp, Lars Bo Andersen, Karsten Froberg and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:52
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  25. Open methods for removal of femoral interlocking nails involve an incision (up to 10 cm) over the trochanter to find the tip of the nail. The distal locking screws are some times difficult to palpate and an in...

    Authors: Kai-Jow Tsai, Po-Wen Shen and William C Hutton
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:51
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  26. Low back pain (LBP) is a major health problem. Effective treatment of acute LBP is important because it prevents patients from developing chronic LBP, the stage of LBP that requires costly and more complex tre...

    Authors: Luciana AC Machado, Chris G Maher, Rob D Herbert, Helen Clare and James McAuley
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:50
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  27. It has been demonstrated that endothelins (ET) have significant roles in bone remodeling, metabolism and physiopathology of several bone diseases. We aimed to investigate if there was any difference between th...

    Authors: Hasan Hilmi Muratli, Levent Çelebi, Onur Hapa and Ali Biçimoğlu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:49
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  29. Fracture represents the single most important clinical event in patients with osteoporosis, yet remains under-predicted. As few premonitory symptoms for fracture exist, it is of critical importance that physic...

    Authors: Robert Bensen, Jonathan D Adachi, Alexandra Papaioannou, George Ioannidis, Wojciech P Olszynski, Rolf J Sebaldt, Timothy M Murray, Robert G Josse, Jacques P Brown, David A Hanley, Annie Petrie, Mark Puglia, Charlie H Goldsmith and W Bensen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:47
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  30. It has been postulated that muscle contraction is slower in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee than asymptomatic individuals, a factor that could theoretically impair joint protection mechanisms. This st...

    Authors: John Dixon and Tracey E Howe
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:46
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  31. Knee complaints are a frequent reason for consultation in general practice. These patients constitute a specific population compared to secondary care patients. However, information to base treatment decisions...

    Authors: Edith M Heintjes, Marjolein Y Berger, Bart W Koes and Sita M Bierma-Zeinstra
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:45
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  32. Topical NSAIDs have been proven to relieve the symptoms of osteoarthritis (OA) in short-term studies (2 weeks). To justify its chronic use, efficacy of a topical NSAID over a longer term of study should be dem...

    Authors: Philip A Baer, Lisa M Thomas and Zev Shainhouse
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:44
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  33. Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) is a distinctive modality commonly used by osteopathic physicians to complement their conventional treatment of musculoskeletal disorders. Previous reviews and meta-ana...

    Authors: John C Licciardone, Angela K Brimhall and Linda N King
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:43
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  34. Severely disabling chronic pain in the adult population is strongly associated with a range of negative health consequences for individuals and high health care costs, yet its prevalence in young adults is les...

    Authors: Christian Mallen, George Peat, Elaine Thomas and Peter Croft
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:42
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  35. Low back pain (LBP) is a common and costly problem. Initiatives designed to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate healthcare for LBP include printed evidence-based clinical guidelines. Th...

    Authors: David W Evans, Nadine E Foster, Martin Underwood, Steven Vogel, Alan C Breen and Tamar Pincus
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:41
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  36. In most clubfoot studies, the outcome instruments used are designed to evaluate classification or long-term cross-sectional results. Variables deal mainly with factors on body function/structure level. Wide sc...

    Authors: Hanneke Andriesse, Gunnar Hägglund and Gun-Britt Jarnlo
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:40
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  37. Alendronate has been found to reduce the risk of fractures in postmenopausal women as demonstrated in multiple randomized controlled trials enrolling thousands of women. Yet there is a paucity of such randomiz...

    Authors: Anna M Sawka, Alexandra Papaioannou, Jonathan D Adachi, Amiram Gafni, David A Hanley and Lehana Thabane
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:39
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  38. Osteoporosis is a major problem and is a hidden epidemic disease in the world. Early diagnosis by measurement of Bone Mineral Density (BMD) and treatment can prevent and reduce disease complications, especiall...

    Authors: Bagher Larijani, Arash Hossein-Nezhad, Alireza Mojtahedi, Mohammad Pajouhi, Mohammad H Bastanhagh, Akbar Soltani, Seyed-Zahra Mirfezi and Roya Dashti
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:38
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  39. Optimal motor control of the spine depends on proprioceptive input as a prerequisite for co-ordination and the stability of the spine. Muscle spindles are known to play an important role in proprioception. Ani...

    Authors: Nis Hjortskov, Christian Hye-Knudsen and Nils Fallentin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:37
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  40. One means of treating osteoarthritis is with autologous or allogeneic osteochondral grafts. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the innate immunological response in humans toward xeno-derived osteochondr...

    Authors: Vincent J Hetherington, Jill S Kawalec, Douglas S Dockery, Oleg S Targoni, Paul V Lehmann and Daniel Nadler
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:36
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  42. While risk factors of osteoporosis in Western populations have been extensively documented, such a profile has not been well studied in Caucasians of non-European origin. This study was designed to estimate th...

    Authors: Azam Baheiraei, Nicholas A Pocock, John A Eisman, Nguyen D Nguyen and Tuan V Nguyen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:34
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  43. Osteoporosis (OP) is a skeletal disorder characterized by reduced bone strength and predisposition to increased risk of fracture, with consequent increased risk of morbidity and mortality. It is therefore an i...

    Authors: Alain Vanasse, Pierre Dagenais, Théophile Niyonsenga, Jean-Pierre Grégoire, Josiane Courteau and Abbas Hemiari
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:33
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  44. Physical therapists increasingly provide direct access services to patients with musculoskeletal conditions, and growing evidence supports the cost-effectiveness of this mode of healthcare delivery. However, f...

    Authors: John D Childs, Julie M Whitman, Phillip S Sizer, Maria L Pugia, Timothy W Flynn and Anthony Delitto
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:32
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  45. This study was designed to evaluate the utility of transdermal fentanyl (TDF, Durogesic®) for the treatment of pain due to osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee or hip, which was not adequately controlled by non-opioid...

    Authors: Xavier Le Loët, Karel Pavelka and Ute Richarz
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:31
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  46. Changing the kinematic behaviour of patellar movement could be one of the reasons for anterior knee pain after implantation of a total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The aim of the current study was to measure the p...

    Authors: Sven Ostermeier, Olaf Buhrmester, Christof Hurschler and Christina Stukenborg-Colsman
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:30
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  47. Variance of peak bone mass has a substantial genetic component, as has been shown with twin studies examining quantitative measures such as bone mineral density (BMD) and quantitative ultrasound (QUS). Evidenc...

    Authors: Peter Tzakas, Betty YL Wong, Alexander G Logan, Laurence A Rubin and David EC Cole
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:29
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  48. The tissue origin of low back pain (LBP) or referred lower extremity symptoms (LES) may be identified in about 70% of cases using advanced imaging, discography and facet or sacroiliac joint blocks. These techn...

    Authors: Mark Laslett, Barry McDonald, Hans Tropp, Charles N Aprill and Birgitta Öberg
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:28
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  49. Studies on exercise in knee osteoarthritis (OA) have focused on elderly subjects. Subjects in this study were middle-aged with symptomatic and definite radiographic knee osteoarthritis. The aim was to test the...

    Authors: Carina A Thorstensson, Ewa M Roos, Ingemar F Petersson and Charlotte Ekdahl
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:27
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  50. Over the past decade, there has been heightened interest in injury rates sustained by martial arts athletes, and more specifically, Taekwondo athletes. Despite this interest, there is a paucity of research on ...

    Authors: Mohsen Kazemi, Heather Shearer and Young Su Choung
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:26
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