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  1. Intra-articular (IA) injection of hyaluronic acid (HA) (IA-HA) is a well-recognized treatment option for pain associated with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA). IA-HA products differ in their HA content, mo...

    Authors: Keiji Yoshioka, Madoka Katayama, Takeo Nishiyama, Kohei Harada, Sawako Takeshita and Yuji Kawamata
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:424
  2. Percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) can effectively treat osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs). Although satisfactory clinical outcomes can be achieved, bone cement leakage remains a primary complic...

    Authors: Shuai Zhang, Gao Ju Wang, Qing Wang, Jin Yang, Shuang Xu and Chao Hua Yang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:423
  3. In obese patients, total hip arthroplasty (THA) can be technically demanding with increased perioperative risks. The aim of this prospective cohort study is to evaluate the effect of body mass index (BMI) on r...

    Authors: Bariq Al-Amiry, Georgios Pantelakis, Sarwar Mahmood, Bakir Kadum, Torkel B. Brismar and Arkan S. Sayed-Noor
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:422
  4. Pain catastrophizing contributes to acute and long-term pain after knee arthroplasty (KA), but the association between pain catastrophizing and physical function is not clear.

    Authors: Sara Birch, Maiken Stilling, Inger Mechlenburg and Torben Bæk Hansen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:421
  5. Proximal humeral fractures can be treated non-operatively or operatively with open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) and arthroplasty. Our objective was to assess practice patterns for operative and non-o...

    Authors: Dominique I. Dabija, Hongshu Guan, Andrew Neviaser and Nitin B. Jain
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:419
  6. Resuming walking after lumbar surgery is a common focus of early post-operative rehabilitation, however there is no knowledge about whether increased walking is associated with better functional outcomes. This...

    Authors: Sarah J. Gilmore, Andrew J. Hahne, Megan Davidson and Jodie A. McClelland
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:418
  7. Biomechanical changes in articular cartilage are associated with the onset of osteoarthritis. We developed an optical coherence tomography-based strain rate tomography method: stress relaxation optical coheren...

    Authors: Suguru Nakamura, Mitsuhiko Ikebuchi, Souichi Saeki, Daisuke Furukawa, Kumi Orita, Nobuo Niimi, Yoshito Tsukahara and Hiroaki Nakamura
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:417
  8. Obesity is an important factor affecting incidence and development of musculoskeletal degenerative changes. In addition, obese patients are considered less favorable surgical candidates for decompression surge...

    Authors: Kengo Harato, Mitsuru Yagi, Nobuyuki Fujita, Shu Kobayashi, Akihito Ohya, Kazuya Kaneda, Yu Iwama, Masaya Nakamura and Morio Matsumoto
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:416
  9. Chronic low back pain (LBP) is common and associated with lumbar disc herniation. The purpose of this study was to investigate if the grade of lumbar disc degeneration correlates with the degree of lumbar mult...

    Authors: Cosmin Faur, Jenel M. Patrascu, Horia Haragus and Bogdan Anglitoiu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:414
  10. This study aimed to determine the influence of ageing on the incidence and site of femoral fractures in trauma patients, by taking the sex, body weight, and trauma mechanisms into account.

    Authors: Shao-Chun Wu, Cheng-Shyuan Rau, Spencer C. H. Kuo, Peng-Chen Chien and Ching-Hua Hsieh
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:413
  11. Age of onset in symptomatic developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAIS) varies. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether psychological factors, radiogr...

    Authors: Shawn Okpara, Paul Nakonezny and Joel Wells
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:412
  12. Developmental factors were assumed to be the key factors that influenced the morphology of femoral trochlea. This study investigated the effects of insufficient patellar stress after birth on the morphological...

    Authors: Guangmin Yang, Faquan Li, Jiangfeng Lu, Yingzhen Niu, Yike Dai, Lixiong Zuo, Gengshuang Tian and Fei Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:411
  13. Idiopathic osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) occurs at a relatively younger age. It is therefore important to prevent the resultant femoral head collapse and requirement of total hip arthroplasty in the...

    Authors: Yohei Tomaru, Tomokazu Yoshioka, Hisashi Sugaya, Hiroshi Kumagai, Kojiro Hyodo, Katsuya Aoto, Hiroshi Wada, Hiroshi Akaogi, Masashi Yamazaki and Hajime Mishima
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:410
  14. The purpose of this study was to compare radiological features between high tibial osteotomy (HTO) and tibial condylar valgus osteotomy (TCVO), in order to define the radiological indication criteria for TCVO.

    Authors: Takashi Higuchi, Hironobu Koseki, Akihiko Yonekura, Ko Chiba, Yusuke Nakazoe, Shinya Sunagawa, Chieko Noguchi and Makoto Osaki
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:409
  15. Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma (MCS) is a rare malignant variant of chondrosarcoma with a high tendency of recurrence and metastasis. Intradural extramedullary spinal MCS is exceedingly rare and usually found in p...

    Authors: Chih-Wei Chen, I-Hsin Chen, Ming-Hsiao Hu, Jen-Chieh Lee, Hsuan-Ying Huang, Ruey-Long Hong and Shu-Hua Yang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:408
  16. Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disorder among elderly individuals. Nonsurgical treatment plays an important role in treating knee OA. The aim of the present study was to investigate the trends an...

    Authors: Kai Wang, Dan Xing, Shengjie Dong and Jianhao Lin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:407
  17. Fractures of the proximal and diaphyseal femur are frequently internally fixed using a fracture table. Moreover, some femoral neck fractures may be treated with total hip arthroplasty using a direct anterior a...

    Authors: Morad Mohamad, Alexandre Ansorge, Diogo Vieira Cardoso and Axel Gamulin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:406
  18. Postoperative neck tilt (PNT) is a phenomenon in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients which is distinct form shoulder imbalance. There were scarce studies performed to explore the risk factors for PN...

    Authors: Yilin Yang, Mingyuan Yang, Zongde Yang, Kai Chen, Jinyi Bai, Jian Zhao, Haijian Ni, Changwei Yang and Ming Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:405
  19. Areal bone mineral density (aBMD) estimated by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is used to estimate peak bone mass, define osteoporosis and predict fracture. However, as aBMD is calculated as bone minera...

    Authors: Erik Lindgren, Björn E. Rosengren and Magnus K. Karlsson
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:404
  20. The Constant score (CS) is one of the most frequently applied tools for the assessment of the shoulder joint. However, evaluation of strength is not standardized leading to potential bias when comparing differ...

    Authors: Patrick Ziegler, Luise Kühle, Ulrich Stöckle, Elke Wintermeyer, Laura E. Stollhof, Christoph Ihle and Christian Bahrs
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:403
  21. The lower limb joints, including hip and knee, are the most commonly involved joints in haemophilic arthropathy. With a higher risk of transfusion, total hip and knee arthroplasty (THA and TKA) are still the f...

    Authors: Ze Yu Huang, Qiang Huang, Han Jiang Zeng, Jun Ma, Bin Shen, Zong Ke Zhou and Fu Xing Pei
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:402
  22. Stress fracture of the lateral tubercle of the posterior talar process in runners is extremely rare. Here, we describe a case of a female long-distance runner who sustained a stress fracture of the lateral tub...

    Authors: Maya Kubo, Youichi Yasui, Shinya Miki, Hirotaka Kawano and Wataru Miyamoto
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:401
  23. The recent increase in knee arthroplasty (KA) use in Korea is among the highest in the world. The rapid increase in KA use suggests that the KA use in Korea could have been affected by medically unjustifiable ...

    Authors: Agnus M. Kim, Sungchan Kang, Jong Heon Park, Tae Ho Yoon and Yoon Kim
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:400
  24. Bone loss with aging and menopause increases the risk of fragile vertebral fracture, osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (OVCF). The fracture causes severe pain, impedes respiratory function, lower the...

    Authors: Yuan-Zhe Jin, Jae Hyup Lee, Bin Xu and Minjoon Cho
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:399
  25. This paper describes (the development of) an eHealth tool (dr. Bart app) to enhance self-management and to optimize non-surgical health care utilization in patients with knee and/or hip osteoarthritis (OA) and...

    Authors: Tim Pelle, Karen Bevers, Job van der Palen, Frank H. J. van den Hoogen and Cornelia H. M. van den Ende
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:398
  26. Thoracolumbar fractures are most frequent along the spine, and surgical treatment is indicated for unstable fractures. Percutaneous minimally invasive surgery was introduced to reduce the pain associated with ...

    Authors: Helton L. A. Defino, Herton R. T. Costa, Altacílio A. Nunes, Marcello Nogueira Barbosa and Valéria Romero
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:397
  27. Treatment of anterior cruciate ligament injuries commonly involves the use of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) artificial ligaments for reconstruction. However, the currently available methods require long fix...

    Authors: Takuya Egawa, Yusuke Inagaki, Manabu Akahane, Akira Furukawa, Kazuya Inoue, Munehiro Ogawa and Yasuhito Tanaka
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:396
  28. Individuals afflicted with nonspecific chronic low back pain (CLBP) exhibit altered fundamental movement patterns. However, there is a lack of validated analysis tools. The present study aimed to elucidate the...

    Authors: Johanna Vogel, Jan Wilke, Frieder Krause, Lutz Vogt, Daniel Niederer and Winfried Banzer
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:395
  29. Acute lateral ankle ligament sprains (LALS) are a common injury seen by many different clinicians. Knowledge translation advocates that clinicians use Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) to aid clinical decisi...

    Authors: Toni Green, Grant Willson, Donna Martin and Kieran Fallon
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:394
  30. The correlation between peripheral blood neutrophil level and osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) has not been extensively studied. Thus, we aimed to investigate the correlation between neutrophil level i...

    Authors: Jiang Jiang, Xuqiang Liu, Baojian Lai, Dengjiong Hu, Lizhen Lai, Jiaxiang Xu, Songqing Chen and Xiaofeng Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:393
  31. Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is a rare idiopathic autoinflammatory bone disease that mostly affects children and adolescents. It is a diagnosis of exclusions since no clinical signs and sy...

    Authors: Joanna Świdrowska-Jaros and Elżbieta Smolewska
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:392
  32. Subtrochanteric femur fractures (SFF) are uncommon, but have a high complication rate concerning non-union and mechanical complications. There is ongoing discussion about risk factors for delayed fracture heal...

    Authors: Viola Freigang, Franziska Gschrei, Himanshu Bhayana, Paul Schmitz, Johannes Weber, Maximilian Kerschbaum, Michael Nerlich and Florian Baumann
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:391
  33. The purpose of this meta-analysis is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of tranexamic acid (TXA) for patients with degenerative lumbar disc herniation, stenosis or instability undergoing posterior lumbar fusi...

    Authors: Jianzhong Bai, Pei Zhang, Yuan Liang, Jingcheng Wang and Yongxiang Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:390
  34. Lithium, an established psychiatric medication, has recently been shown to enhance new bone formation in preclinical fracture models. Current research is focused on evaluating the efficacy of low-dose, short-t...

    Authors: Kathak Vachhani, Cari M. Whyne, Ayal Schaffer and Diane Nam
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:389
  35. Ankle fractures cause considerable pain, loss of function and healthcare resource use. High quality randomised controlled trials are required to evaluate the optimal management protocols for ankle fracture. Ho...

    Authors: Rebecca McKeown, Abdul-Rasheed Rabiu, David R. Ellard and Rebecca S. Kearney
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:388
  36. Dupuytren’s contracture (DC) is a fibrotic hand condition in which one or more fingers develop progressive flexion deformities. Quality of life is diminished due to disabling limitations in performing everyday...

    Authors: Terese Aglen, Karin Hoegh Matre, Cecilie Lind, Ruud W. Selles, Jörg Aßmus and Tina Taule
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:387
  37. This study evaluated the technical adequacy of trans-articular sacroiliac joint (SIJ) fusion using three screws for non-traumatic SIJ pain, considering different grades of sacral dysplasia.

    Authors: Soo-An Park, Dai-Soon Kwak and Ho-Jung Cho
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:386
  38. Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is used increasingly in younger patients. There is little knowledge about the effect of THA characteristics on risk of revision, especially in young patients. Therefore, we studied...

    Authors: M. F. L. Kuijpers, G. Hannink, S. B. W. Vehmeijer, L. N. van Steenbergen and B. W. Schreurs
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:385
  39. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold standard in diagnosing rotator cuff pathology; however, there is a lack of studies investigating the reliability agreement for supraspinatus partial-thickness tears...

    Authors: João Alberto Yazigi Junior, Fábio Anauate Nicolao, Nicola Archetti Netto, Fabio Teruo Matsunaga, Jéssica Hae Lim Lee, Stéphanie Yuri Torres Ogata, Leonardo Massamaro Sugawara, André Yui Aihara and Marcel Jun Sugawara Tamaoki
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:383
  40. Our hypothesis was that minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis (MIPO) using long philos plate (LPP) would show better clinical and radiological outcomes and less complications than narrow locking compression ...

    Authors: Jae-Jung Jeong, Sang-Eun Park, Hwan-Hee Lee, Jong-Hun Ji, Min-Sik Park and Yong-Taek Park
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:381
  41. At present, bicortical pedicle screws (BPSs) are not used clinically because they carry the potential risk of damaging the prevertebral great vessels (PGVs). The authors observed the anatomical relationship be...

    Authors: Liehua Liu, Haoming Wang, Jiangang Wang, Qian Wang, Shiming Cheng, Ying Li, Weidong Jin, Zili Wang and Qiang Zhou
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:380
  42. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between radiographic measurement in lumbar spine and clinical information including symptoms or results of functional testing using a baseline data of l...

    Authors: Kosuke Uehara, Masami Akai, Tokuhide Doi, Hiroyuki Oka and Tsutomu Iwaya
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:379
  43. Corticosteroid injection is frequently used for plantar heel pain (plantar fasciitis), although there is limited high-quality evidence to support this treatment. Therefore, this study reviewed randomised trial...

    Authors: Glen A. Whittaker, Shannon E. Munteanu, Hylton B. Menz, Daniel R. Bonanno, James M. Gerrard and Karl B. Landorf
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:378
  44. Fat embolism syndrome (FES) is a rare complication that can occur between 12 and 72 h after the initial insult. Isolated cerebral FES without pulmonary symptoms is rarer. Early fracture fixation might prevent ...

    Authors: Chin-Kai Huang, Chih-Yuan Huang, Chia-Lung Li, Jui-Ming Yang, Chin-Hsien Wu, Chih-Hui Chen and Po-Ting Wu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:377
  45. Obesity and radiological severity have been identified to be independent predictors of a low rate of response to viscosupplementation (VS), in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Is that enough to formally...

    Authors: Thierry Conrozier, Florent Eymard, Mickael Chouk and Xavier Chevalier
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:376
  46. Lateral epicondylitis or tennis elbow is a frequent condition with long-lasting symptoms. In order to identify predictors for treatment success and pain in lateral epicondylitis, we used data from a randomized...

    Authors: Øystein Holmedal, Morten Olaussen, Ibrahimu Mdala, Bård Natvig and Morten Lindbæk
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:375

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