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  1. Spasticity interfering with gross motor development in cerebral palsy (CP) can be reduced with selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR). Although reported, it is unknown if SDR surgery causes later spine problems. Usi...

    Authors: Annika Lundkvist Josenby and Lena Westbom
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:782
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  2. Osteoporotic hip fracture is a common general health problem with a significant impact on human life because it debilitates the patients and largely decreases their quality of life. Early prevention of fractur...

    Authors: Kuang-Ting Yeh, Tzai-Chiu Yu, Ru-Ping Lee, Jen-Hung Wang, Kuan-Lin Liu, Cheng-Huan Peng, Hao-Wen Chen, Ing-Ho Chen, Chung-Yi Hsu and Wen-Tien Wu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:779
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  3. The hip abductors are crucial in maintaining pelvic stability. Tears in these tendons are common and often debilitating. There is uncertainty regarding both the histological and macroscopic features of hip abd...

    Authors: Mark F. Zhu, Brittany Smith, Sanjeev Krishna, David S. Musson, Peter R. Riordan, Sue R. McGlashan, Jillian Cornish and Jacob T. Munro
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:778
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  4. The purpose of this study was to prospectively recruit patients treated with limb malformation and to explore the prevalence and the clinical and epidemiological features of Heart-Hand Syndrome (HHS) in China.

    Authors: Yaobin Yin, Jianguang Ji, Junhui Zhao, Shanlin Chen and Wen Tian
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:777
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  5. Although risk-stratifying patients with acute lower back pain is a promising approach for improving long-term outcomes, efforts to implement stratified care in the US healthcare system have had limited success...

    Authors: Addie Middleton, G. Kelley Fitzgerald, Anthony Delitto, Robert B. Saper, Katherine Gergen Barnett and Joel Stevans
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:776
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  6. The major causes of failure after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) include prosthesis loosening and infection. This study aimed to investigate the role of carboxymethyl chitosan (CMC) in knee arthroplasty.

    Authors: Feng Liu, Hai-Yan Li, Zhen Wang, Hai-Ning Zhang, Ying-Zhen Wang and Hao Xu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:775
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  7. In the management of early inflammatory joint of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), there is a need for reliable noninvasive quantitative monitoring biomarker to closely assess status of synovitis progression. Cogni...

    Authors: Hui Yang, Ling Jiang, Jiang Li, Xiuzhu Zheng, Qianqian Yao, Changqin Li, Jianzhong Zhu and Jian Qin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:774
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  8. Unicondylar knee arthroplasty was introduced in the late 1960s and remains a topic of controversial discussion. Patient-specific instruments and patient-specific implants are not yet the standard of care. The ...

    Authors: Viola Freigang, Markus Rupp, Christian Pfeifer, Michael Worlicek, Stefan Radke, Stephan Deckelmann, Volker Alt and Florian Baumann
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:773
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  9. Given the unexpected high rate of failure following metal-on-metal total hip replacement (MoM-THR), it is expected that more MoM-THR patients will experience revision. The long-term outcomes regarding the prim...

    Authors: Weiguang Yu, Meiji Chen, Xianshang Zeng, Mingdong Zhao, Xinchao Zhang, Junxing Ye, Jintao Zhuang and Guowei Han
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:772
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  11. The objective of the study was to compare the effects of neuromobilization (NM) techniques and routine physiotherapy on pain and functional disability in patients having shoulder impingement syndrome (SIS). Pr...

    Authors: Muhammad Akhtar, Hossein Karimi, Syed Amir Gilani, Ashfaq Ahmad and Asim Raza
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:770
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  12. Although most cases of humeral shaft nonunion respond well to surgical intervention, surgeons still encounter patients with humeral shaft nonunion who have already undergone repeated surgeries for nonunion. Th...

    Authors: Dongxu Feng, Xiaolong Wang, Liang Sun, Xiao Cai, Kun Zhang, Zhan Wang and Yangjun Zhu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:769
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  13. The measurement of patellar height and restoration of the natural position of the joint line are crucial to total knee arthroplasty (TKA). However, there remains a lack of consensus on an optimal measurement m...

    Authors: Hua Han and Xiaohui Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:768
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  14. The currently available scoring methods for enthesitis are often measures of pain but not of inflammation at entheseal sites. The Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Clinical Trials (OMERACT) psoriatic arthritis ...

    Authors: Xenofon Baraliakos, Philipp Sewerin, Eugenio de Miguel, Effie Pournara, Christine Kleinmond, Annette Wiedon and Frank Behrens
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:767
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  15. The revision surgery of basilar invagination (BI) with irreducible atlantoaxial dislocation (IAAD) after a previous occipitocervical fusion (OCF) is challenging. Transoral revision surgery has more advantages ...

    Authors: Xiaobao Zou, Binbin Wang, Haozhi Yang, Su Ge, Bieping Ouyang, Yuyue Chen, Ling Ni, Shuang Zhang, Hong Xia and Xiangyang Ma
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:766
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  16. Models of care for managing total knee or hip arthroplasty (TKA, THA) incorporating early mobilisation are associated with shorter acute length-of-stay (LOS). Few studies have examined the effect of implementi...

    Authors: Happy Chua, Bernadette Brady, Melissa Farrugia, Natalie Pavlovic, Shaniya Ogul, Danella Hackett, Dimyana Farag, Anthony Wan, Sam Adie, Leeanne Gray, Michelle Nazar, Wei Xuan, Richard M. Walker, Ian A. Harris and Justine M. Naylor
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:765
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  17. Due to its unique arrangement, the deep and superficial fibers of the multifidus may have differential roles for maintaining spine stabilization and lumbar posture; the superficial multifidus is responsible fo...

    Authors: Jennifer Padwal, David B. Berry, James C. Hubbard, Vinko Zlomislic, R. Todd Allen, Steven R. Garfin, Samuel R. Ward and Bahar Shahidi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:764
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  18. Radial head arthroplasty (RHA) has been commonly adopted for irreparable radial head fractures while little information is addressed on valgus type injury. The purpose of this study is to report long-term outc...

    Authors: Alvin Chao-Yu Chen, Chun-Jui Weng, Chih-Hao Chiu, Shih-Sheng Chang, Chun-Ying Cheng and Yi-Sheng Chan
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:763
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  19. Intramedullary osteosclerosis (IMOS) is a rare condition without specific radiological findings except for the osteosclerotic lesion and is not associated with family history and infection, trauma, or systemic...

    Authors: Kensaku Abe, Norio Yamamoto, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Akihiko Takeuchi, Shinji Miwa, Kentaro Igarashi, Takashi Higuchi, Yuta Taniguchi, Hirotaka Yonezawa, Yoshihiro Araki, Sei Morinaga, Yohei Asano and Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:762
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  20. Joint hemorrhage is caused by trauma, ligament reconstruction surgery, and bleeding disorders such as hemophilia. Recurrence of hemorrhage in the joint space induces hemosiderotic synovitis and oxidative stres...

    Authors: Yasuhito Sogi, Yutaka Yabe, Yoshihiro Hagiwara, Masahiro Tsuchiya, Yoshito Onoda, Takuya Sekiguchi, Nobuyuki Itaya, Shinichiro Yoshida, Toshihisa Yano, Kazuaki Suzuki, Takahiro Onoki and Eiji Itoi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:761
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  21. This study aimed to describe the changes in spinopelvic sagittal alignment in the sitting position after posterior lumbar fusion, and to identify the factors influencing unfused adjacent segment lordosis.

    Authors: Zhuoran Sun, Siyu Zhou, Wei Wang, Da Zou and Weishi Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:760
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  22. Legg–Calvé–Perthes (LCP) is a common orthopedic childhood disease that causes a deformity of the femoral head and to an adaptive deformity of the acetabulum. The altered joint biomechanics can result in early ...

    Authors: P. Fürnstahl, F. A. Casari, J. Ackermann, M. Marcon, M. Leunig and R. Ganz
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:759
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  24. Several risk assessments have been developed to evaluate fall risk in older adults, but it has not been conclusively established which of these tools is most effective for assessing fall risk in this vulnerabl...

    Authors: Nitchanant Kitcharanant, Ekasame Vanitcharoenkul and Aasis Unnanuntana
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:757
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  25. The technique of posterior pedicle screw fixation has already been widely applied in the treatment of upper thoracic spinal tuberculosis. However, lesions of tuberculosis directly invade the vertebrae and surr...

    Authors: Yuhang Wang, Dingjun Hao, Lixiong Qian, Xin He, Yibin Meng and Biao Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:756
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  26. Globally, the leading cause of years lived with disability is low back pain (LBP). Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is responsible for most of the cost and disability associated with LBP. This is more devastating ...

    Authors: Chinonso Nwamaka Igwesi-Chidobe, Sheila Kitchen, Isaac Olubunmi Sorinola and Emma Louise Godfrey
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:755
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  27. Planned lower limb surgery is common, with over 90,000 hip replacements, 95,000 knee replacements and 15,000 anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions performed in the UK each year. These procedures are prima...

    Authors: Maxwell Stanley Renna, Andrew Metcalfe, David Ellard and David Davies
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:754
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  28. A fracture of the calcaneus can be a painful and disabling injury. Treatment modalities may be conservative or operative. Surgical treatment strategies include open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) techn...

    Authors: Christian Rodemund, Ronny Krenn, Carl Kihm, Iris Leister, Reinhold Ortmaier, Werner Litzlbauer, Angelika M. Schwarz and Georg Mattiassich
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:753
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  29. Two parallel cannulated screws along with an anterior wire to construct a tension band is a popular approach in transverse patellar fractures. However, the optimal screw proximity, either deep or superficial s...

    Authors: Chih-Wei Chang, Chih-Hsien Chen, Chun-Ting Li, Yen-Nien Chen, Tai-Hua Yang, Chia-Jung Chang and Chih-Han Chang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:752
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  30. Sequential therapy from bone-forming medication to resorptive agents is reportedly effective for patients with severe osteoporosis. The objective of this study is to determine the impact of implementing short-...

    Authors: Chan Ho Park, Jun-Il Yoo, Chang Hyun Choi and You-Sung Suh
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:751
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  31. We studied the characteristics and regularity of appropriate insertion points for percutaneous pedicle screw placement in the lumbar spine using C-arm X-ray fluoroscopy. The purpose of this study was to improv...

    Authors: Wei-Xing Xu, Wei-Guo Ding, Bin Xu, Tian-Hong Hu, Hong-Feng Sheng, Jia-Fu Zhu and Xiao-Long Zhu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:750
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  32. Selective thoracolumbar/lumbar fusion technique was introduced to treat adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients with major thoracolumbar/lumbar curves. Theoretically, this surgical strategy could also b...

    Authors: Fan Feng, Hongxing Shen, Xiuyuan Chen, Zude Liu, Jianwei Chen, Quan Li and Lifeng Lao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:749
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  34. The prevalence and economic burdens of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are serious in rural China. In addition to formal support, health-related private transfers (HRPTs), including adult children transfers (A...

    Authors: Chaoyang Yan, Aichun Li, Qin Xiang and Jing Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:747
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  35. Plasma cell granuloma (PCG) is a rare non-neoplastic entity, with the precise etiology remaining unclear. Vertebra-affected spinal PCG has not been reported yet. This report presented a case with cross-segment...

    Authors: Renqin Lin, Shenglin Wang, Jianhua Lin, Zhenzhen Zhang and Xuanwei Chen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:746
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  36. A ligament advanced reinforcement system (LARS) artificial ligament has been proposed for use in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction, and many reports have shown its success in ACL reconstruction. ...

    Authors: Yuanliang Du, Haifeng Dai, Zhihui Wang, Di Wu, Changjiang Shi, Tianjie Xiao and Zhihuai Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:745
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  37. Rotator cuff related pain (RCRP) is one of the most common sources of musculoskeletal shoulder pain affecting the general population. Conservative treatment, in the form of exercise, is considered the first li...

    Authors: Rafael Baeske, Toby Hall and Marcelo Faria Silva
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:744
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  38. Surgeons recognize that using percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) under local anesthesia to treat osteoporotic vertebral fracture (OVF) prevents interference with the general situation of elderly patients suffering...

    Authors: Shuai Zhang, Shuang Xu, Jin Yang, Song Wang and Qing Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:743
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  39. We developed a fully automatic three-dimensional knee MRI analysis software that can quantify meniscus extrusion and cartilage measurements, including the projected cartilage area ratio (PCAR), which represent...

    Authors: Hayato Aoki, Nobutake Ozeki, Hisako Katano, Akinobu Hyodo, Yugo Miura, Junpei Matsuda, Kimiko Takanashi, Kenji Suzuki, Jun Masumoto, Noriya Okanouchi, Takeo Fujiwara and Ichiro Sekiya
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:742
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  40. Calcific tendinitis of the rotator cuff is a disorder that causes acute onset of shoulder pain when spontaneous resorption of the calcification occurs. However, factors that trigger calcium resorption have not...

    Authors: Ryogo Furuhata, Noboru Matsumura, Akira Yoshiyama, Yusaku Kamata, Masaaki Takahashi and Hideo Morioka
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:741
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  41. There is a paucity of reports clarifying the implication of knee osteoarthritis (OA) on spinal sagittal alignment of patients undergone surgery for lumbar spine. This study aimed to analyze how osteoarthritic ...

    Authors: Yong-Chan Kim, Ki-Tack Kim, Kee-Yong Ha, Joonghyun Ahn, Seungnam Ko, Qiang Luo, Sung-Min Kim, Mingyu Kim and Sunin Yoo
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:740
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  42. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness and safety of tranexamic acid (TXA) in orthopedic surgery. However, no study has investigated TXA in complex tibial plateau fracture surgery. Therefore, the...

    Authors: Zhimeng Wang, Yao Lu, Qian Wang, Leilei Song, Teng Ma, Cheng Ren, Zhong Li, Jiarui Yang, Kun Zhang and Bing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:739
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  43. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) represent an important socio-economic burden. The current risk assessment and management involved in the ethiopathogenesis of WMSDs is based on observational tool...

    Authors: Fabrizio Russo, Cristina Di Tecco, Luca Fontana, Giovanna Adamo, Adriano Papale, Vincenzo Denaro and Sergio Iavicoli
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:738
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  44. Ewing sarcoma, the second most frequent bone tumor in children and adolescents, is often presented with localized disease or metastatic-related symptoms. In this study, we aim to construct and validate a nomog...

    Authors: Zhenggang Zhou, Jinyu Wang, Liming Fang, Jianlin Ma and Mingbo Guo
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:737
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  45. We investigate the safety of the application of the Rigidfix cross-pin system via different tibial tunnels in the tibial fixation during anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction.

    Authors: Jian Wang, Hua-qiang Fan, Wenli Dai, Hong-Da Li, Yang-pan Fu, Zhenhuang Liu, Chang-ming Huang and Zhanjun Shi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:736
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  46. The clinical outcome of open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) for delayed lateral condylar fracture of the humerus (LCFH) varies in different studies, but ORIF for LCFH with an early-delayed presentation...

    Authors: Jin Li, Saroj Rai, Yun Gao, Renhao Ze, Xin Tang, Ruikang Liu and Pan Hong
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:735
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  47. The aim of this study is to introduce a new method of percutaneous endoscopic decompression under 3D real-time image-guided navigation for spinal stenosis in degenerative kyphoscoliosis patients without instab...

    Authors: Tsung-Yu Ho, Chung-Wei Lin, Chien-Chun Chang, Hsien-Te Chen, Yen-Jen Chen, Yuan-Shun Lo, Pan-Hsuan Hsiao, Po-Chen Chen, Chih-Sheng Lin and Hsi-Kai Tsou
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:734
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  48. Many motion studies have shown that the inner bearing of bipolar prostheses moves less than expected under non-weight-bearing and static weight-bearing positions, which are not routine functional movements per...

    Authors: Weizhou Jiang, Jun Xiao, Bin Chen, Ming Jia, Yang Zhang, Jian Wang and Zhanjun Shi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:731
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  49. Muscle strength training is a common strategy for treating chronic ankle instability (CAI), but the effectiveness decreases for mechanical ankle instability (MAI) patients with initial severe ligament injuries...

    Authors: Zong-chen Hou, Xin Miao, Ying-fang Ao, Yue-lin Hu, Chen Jiao, Qin-wei Guo, Xing Xie, Feng Zhao, Yan-bin Pi, Nan Li, Zhi-yu Zhang and Dong Jiang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:730
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  50. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Umile Giuseppe Longo, Giuseppe Salvatore, Laura Risi Ambrogioni, Eleonora Cella, Vincenzo Candela, Arianna Carnevale, Emiliano Schena, Massimo Ciccozzi, Nicola Maffulli and Vincenzo Denaro
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:728
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