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  1. Low back pain (LBP) has drawn much widespread attention and is a major global health concern. In this field, intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) is frequently the focus of classic studies. However, the mec...

    Authors: ZhaoLiang Zhang, JianZhong Huo, XingHua Ji, LinDong Wei and Jinfeng Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:729
  2. Few reports have examined the localized regional disparity in representative surgical procedures in orthopaedics and general surgery globally. This study aimed to clarify the inter-prefectural regional dispari...

    Authors: Masamitsu Kido, Kazuya Ikoma, Yumiko Kobayashi, Masahiro Maki, Suzuyo Ohashi, Katsutoshi Shoda, Daisuke Ichikawa, Ritei Uehara and Kenji Takahashi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:726
  3. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are one of the most important problems among young smartphone users worldwide. Portability leads to a wide variety of postures during the different activities of the day. The o...

    Authors: Julien Jacquier-Bret and Philippe Gorce
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:725
  4. Cervical stiffness, coronal imbalance and limited hip movement all play crucial roles in designing the corrective surgery for ankylosing spondylitis-related thoracolumbar kyphosis (AS-TLK). However, a comprehe...

    Authors: Wei Zhang, Wen Yin, Xilong Cui, Zihao Chai, Guohui Zheng, Ya Ding, Hongliang Wang, Yunlei Zhai and Haiyang Yu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:723
  5. There are some cases of Klippel-Feil syndrome with spinal cord injury in clinical work. However, there is no literature report on Brown-Sequard syndrome after trauma. We report a case of Brown-Sequard syndrome...

    Authors: Shuyi Zhang, Zhao Wang, Shuao Zhang, Chenshui Lu, Zhengpeng Liu, Chan Kang, Fengfei Lin, Dongze Lin, Licai Huang and Yilong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:722
  6. This study aimed to analyze the change trends of prevertebral soft tissue swelling (PSTS) for anterior cervical corpectomy fusion(ACCF) and to evaluate the risk factors of PSTS for postoperative dysphagia.

    Authors: Yanyan Ma, Peiming Sang, Binhui Chen, Jie Li and Dikai Bei
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:720
  7. In 2014, the National Institute of Health Pain Consortium’s research task force (RTF) on research standards for chronic low back pain (CLBP) proposed the Impact Stratification Score (ISS) as a patient-reported...

    Authors: Anthony Rodriguez, Patricia M. Herman, Mary E. Slaughter, Maria Orlando Edelen and Ron D. Hays
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:719
  8. Rotator Cuff (RC) lesions are classified in full-thickness and partial-thickness tears (PTRCTs). To our knowledge, no studies investigated the mean size of shoulder tendons in healthy and PTRCT patients using ...

    Authors: Umile Giuseppe Longo, Sergio De Salvatore, Giuliano Zollo, Giovanni Calabrese, Ilaria Piergentili, Mattia Loppini and Vincenzo Denaro
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:718
  9. To preserve the meniscus’s function, repairing the torn meniscus has become a common understanding. After which, the search for the ideal suture material is continuous. However, it is still controversial about...

    Authors: Wang Wei, Yi Zhang, Ruiying Li, Jianlong Ni, Dongjian Wang, Sanpeng Zhang and Zhibin Shi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:717
  10. In this paper, we present the protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of a participative risk management intervention to address work-related musculo...

    Authors: Karen Davies, Victoria Weale and Jodi Oakman
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:716
  11. The relationship between abdominal adipose tissue and osteoporosis is poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations of abdominal adipose tissue with bone mineral density (BMD) am...

    Authors: Xueqin Cao, Leilei He, Rong Sun and Siyu Chen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:715
  12. To evaluate the efficacy of strength exercise or aerobic exercise compared to usual care on knee-related quality of life (QoL) and knee function at 4 months and 1 year in individuals with knee osteoarthritis.

    Authors: Britt Elin Øiestad, Asbjørn Årøen, Jan Harald Røtterud, Nina Østerås, Even Jarstad, Margreth Grotle and May Arna Risberg
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:714
  13. Benign peripheral nerve tumours consist of different types, most commonly Schwannomas. Preoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is commonly performed before surgery and Pathoanatomical Diagnosis (PAD) con...

    Authors: Emanuel Istefan, Johannes Belstock, Lars B. Dahlin and Erika Nyman
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:713
  14. This exploratory study aimed to investigate the extent to which mechanical properties of the plantar skin and superficial soft tissue (hardness, stiffness, and thickness) and vibration perception thresholds (V...

    Authors: Renan L. Monteiro, Tina J. Drechsel, Jane Suelen S. P. Ferreira, Claudio Zippenfennig and Isabel C. N. Sacco
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:712
  15. The purpose of this study was to measure the femoral prosthesis flexion angle (FPFA) in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using three-dimensional reconstruction, and to assess the differences in early clinical eff...

    Authors: Hang Zhou, Ze-Rui Wu, Xiang-Yang Chen, Le-Shu Zhang, Jin-Cheng Zhang, Sakarie Mustafe Hidig, Shuo Feng and Zhi Yang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:711
  16. In recent years, with improved living standards, adolescent obesity has been increasingly studied. The incidence of lumbar disc herniation (LDH) in obese adolescents is increasing yearly. No clinical studies h...

    Authors: Lianjun Qu, Yongli Wang, Fei Wang and Songou Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:710
  17. Recurrent patellar dislocation (RPD) is a multifactorial disease that affects young and active people. Patellar height measurements are used clinically to screen and diagnose knee conditions. However, there ar...

    Authors: Satoshi Yamashita, Shinya Ishizuka, Tadahiro Sakai, Hiroki Oba, Takefumi Sakaguchi, Takafumi Mizuno, Itaru Kawashima, Takashi Tsukahara, Shigeo Takahashi, Kazutoshi Kurokouchi and Shiro Imagama
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:707
  18. Gait decline in older adults is related to falling risk, some of which contribute to injurious falls requiring medical attention or restriction of activity of daily living. Among injurious falls, distal radius...

    Authors: Akiko Yamamoto, Koji Fujita, Eriku Yamada, Takuya Ibara, Fumiyuki Nihey, Takuma Inai, Kazuya Tsukamoto, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Kentaro Nakahara and Atsushi Okawa
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:706
  19. The Observable Movement Quality scale for patients with low back pain (OMQ-LBP) is a newly developed measurement instrument for use in primary care settings of physical and exercise therapists to assess moveme...

    Authors: M. J. H. van Dijk, A. M. van der Wal, J. Mollema†, B. Visser, H. Kiers, Y. Heerkens and M. W. G. Nijhuis – van der Sanden
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:705
  20. The shoelace technique for compartment syndrome allows application of sustained tightening tension to an entire wound and intermittent tightening of the shoelace without requiring its replacement or anesthesia...

    Authors: Atsunori Onoe, Takashi Muroya, Yoshihiro Nakamura, Fumiko Nakamura, Takuma Yagura, Mari Nakajima, Masanobu Kishimoto, Kazuhito Sakuramoto, Kentaro Kajino, Hitoshi Ikegawa and Yasuyuki Kuwagata
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:704
  21. Lumber spinal stenosis (LSS) is the increasingly reason for spine surgery for elder patients since China is facing the fastest-growing aging population. The aim of this research was t...

    Authors: Parhat Yasin, Xiaoyu Cai, Muradil Mardan, Tao Xu, Yakefu Abulizi, Abasi Aimaiti, Huan Yang, Weibin Sheng and Mardan Mamat
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:703
  22. Neck injury is a common and often debilitating injury among athletes participating in American football. Limited data exists regarding neck injuries among elite athletes in the National Football League (NFL). ...

    Authors: Bobby Dow, Dakota Doucet, Sree M. Vemu, Venkat Boddapati, Rex A. W. Marco and Takashi Hirase
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:702
  23. Several surgical techniques are used to treat bursal-side partial thickness rotator cuff tears (PTRCTs). However, use of single knotless-anchor with two Ethicon 2# repair technique for PTRCTs has not been repo...

    Authors: Ding su-Bao, Baolu- Zhang, Hong- luo, Yang- liu, Rui chen-Li, Yiyuan- Zou, Sheng qiang-Zeng, Shijie- Fu and Gang Liu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:701
  24. Admission hyperglycemia is a common phenomenon in the early stages of injury. This study aimed to determine the relationship between admission hyperglycemia and postoperative pneumonia in geriatric patients wi...

    Authors: Wanyun Tang, Wei Yao, Wei Wang, Qiaomei Lv and Wenbo Ding
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:700
  25. Authors: Michael Tim-yun Ong, Gene Chi-wai Man, Xin He, Mingqian Yu, Lawrence Chun-man Lau, Jihong Qiu, Qianwen Wang, Jeremy Ho-pak Liu, Ben Chi-yin Choi, Jonathan Patrick Ng and Patrick Shu-hang Yung
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:699

    The original article was published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:510

  26. Patellofemoral pain syndrome is a prevalent sports injury that affects athletes both in their daily lives and during training. This condition causes pain in the area where the kneecap and thigh bone meet, and ...

    Authors: Yang Liu and Lianqing Wu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:698
  27. This study aimed to compare the biomechanical properties of lumbar interbody fusion involving two types of cages. The study evaluated the effectiveness of the cage spanning the ring apophysis, regardless of th...

    Authors: Jian Wang, Ziming Geng, Jincheng Wu, Jianchao Liu, Zepei Zhang, Jun Miao and Ruihua Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:695
  28. The methods of reduction of depressed posterolateral fragments in tibial plateau fracture through anterolateral approaches remain controversial. This paper aimed to compare the intraarticular osteotomy techniq...

    Authors: Zhixun Fang, Xuan Pei, Yipeng Cheng, Jianan Chen, Wei Zhou, Yu Chen, Yaolatu Baosu, Shenglong Qian, Ximing Liu and Guodong Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:694
  29. Global prevalence of osteoporosis and fragility fractures is increasing due to the aging population. Proximal femoral fractures are among the most common orthopedic conditions in elderly that significantly cau...

    Authors: Soroush Baghdadi, Maryam kiyani, Seyyed Hadi kalantar, Samira Shiri, Omid Sohrabi, Shahabaldin Beheshti Fard, Sina Afzal and Seyyed Saeed Khabiri
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:693
  30. Sonication of removed orthopaedic implants in suspected implant-associated infections (IAI) is widely applied internationally. However, evaluation of the utility of sonication on all implants removed in everyd...

    Authors: Diana Salomi Ponraj, Thomas Falstie-Jensen, Holger Brüggemann and Jeppe Lange
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:691
  31. Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) with the lower trunk compression of brachial plexus (BP) is difficult to diagnosis. This study aimed to summarize the features of thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) with the lower tr...

    Authors: Dingzhang Chen, Wenqing Gong, Jing Wang, Jikun Hao, Rui Zhao and Minjuan Zheng
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:690
  32. The aim of this study was to compare serum vitamin D levels in girls with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) and controls using meta-analysis methods. We searched Medline (via PubMed), Cochrane, Scopus, and...

    Authors: Dong Suk Kim and Jung Sub Lee
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:689
  33. Pseudoarthrosis after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is relatively common and can result in revision surgery. The aim of the study was to analyze the outcome of patients who underwent anterior ...

    Authors: Anna-Katharina Calek, Elin Winkler, Mazda Farshad and José Miguel Spirig
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:688
  34. Tranexamic acid (TXA) has been widely used in orthopedic surgery, but its efficacy in adolescent scoliosis (AS) surgery remains unclear in the literature. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysi...

    Authors: Keyu Chen, Liang Wang, Qingyang Gao, Umar Masood, Zhimou Zeng, Huiliang Yang and Yueming Song
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:686
  35. The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the reorganization of health services to cater to the needs of individuals affected by the virus.

    Authors: Abelardo de Oliveira Soares Junior, Max dos Santos Afonso, Yohana Pereira Vieira, Juliana Quadros Santos Rocha, Samuel Dumith, Rosália Garcia Neves, Carine Nascimento da Silva, Suele Manjourany Silva Duro and Mirelle de Oliveira Saes
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:685
  36. This study aimed to compare the effects of cognitive functional therapy (CFT) and movement system impairment (MSI)-based treatment on pain intensity, disability, Kinesiophobia, and gait kinetics in patients wi...

    Authors: Sahar Nazary Soltan Ahmad, Amir Letafatkar, Britton W. Brewer and Ali Sharifnezhad
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:684
  37. Alignment is indispensable for the foot and ankle function, especially in the hindfoot alignment. In the preoperative planning of patients with varus or valgus deformity, the precise measurement of the hindfoo...

    Authors: Jing-Qi Liang, Yan Zhang, Liang Liu, Xiao-Dong Wen, Pei-Long Liu, Xin-Quan Yang, Xiao-Jun Liang and Hong-Mou Zhao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:683

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:771

  38. The incidence rate of stroke or cerebrovascular accidents ranks first in China. More than 85% of stroke patients have residual upper limb motor dysfunction, especially hand dysfunction. Normalizing the rehabil...

    Authors: Rui Li, Shuai Zheng, Yukang Zhang, Hongxia Zhang, Lijuan Du, Linggang Cheng, Hui Li, Wenkai Zhang, Kai Du, Wen He and Wei Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:682
  39. The cartilage quality of the lateral compartment needs to be clarified prior to medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA). Valgus stress radiograph has been recommended as the preferred tool. Some studie...

    Authors: Xufeng Jiao, Guanglei Cao, Jiangpeng Wu, Zheng Li, Shuai An and Jiang Huang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:681
  40. Whether the medial meniscus morphology and movement occur under upright loading conditions in early knee osteoarthritis (OA) or medial meniscus posterior root tear (MMPRT) remains unknown. This study aimed to ...

    Authors: Kengo Shimozaki, Junsuke Nakase, Tomoyuki Kanayama, Yusuke Yanatori, Yoshihiro Ishida, Naoki Ohno, Tosiaki Miyati and Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:680
  41. Low back pain (LBP) is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Differences in social backgrounds and lifestyles in various regions and countries may contribute to the discrepancies in the disease bu...

    Authors: Yao Yang, Xigui Lai, Conghui Li, Yujie Yang, Shanshan Gu, Weiqian Hou, Liwen Zhai and Yi Zhu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:679
  42. The peripatellar fat pads are critical for protective cushioning during movement, and their endocrine function has been shown to affect osteoarthritis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is frequently used to vi...

    Authors: Liangjing Lyu, Yongliang Li, Jingyu Zhong and Weiwu Yao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:678
  43. This study aims to demonstrate the cellular composition and underlying mechanisms in subchondral bone marrow lesions (BMLs) of knee osteoarthritis (OA).

    Authors: Muhui Zeng, Xiaoshuai Wang, Tianyu Chen, Guangfeng Ruan, Jia Li, Song Xue, Yang Zhao, Zhiyang Hu, Ye Xie, Tianxiang Fan, Shibo Chen, Yang Li, Qianyi Wang, Yue Zhang, Rongkai Zhang, Lijun Lin…
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:677

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