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  1. Improving vitamin D (25-OHD) status may be an important modifiable factor that could reduce disability severity, fall-rates and mortality associated after hip fracture surgery. Providing a loading-dose post-su...

    Authors: Jenson CS Mak, Rebecca S. Mason, Linda Klein and Ian D. Cameron
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:336
  2. There are two primary surgical techniques to reconstruct the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), transtibial (TT) technique and anteromedial portal (AMP) technique. Currently, there is no consensus which surgica...

    Authors: Simeon J. S. Ruiter, Reinoud W. Brouwer, Tim W. G. M. Meys, Cornelis H. Slump and Jos J. A. M. van Raay
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:334
  3. The concerns about the development of adverse events (AEs) in elderly RA patients as a result of age-related changes in drug metabolism and the presence of comorbid illnesses are emphasizing due to increasing ...

    Authors: Soo-Kyung Cho, Yoon-Kyoung Sung, Dam Kim, Soyoung Won, Chan-Bum Choi, Tae-Hwan Kim, Jae-Bum Jun, Dae-Hyun Yoo and Sang-Cheol Bae
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:333
  4. Case reports have linked adult hypophosphatasia as a possible cause of atypical femur fractures (AFF) associated with bisphosphonate use. Adult hypophosphatasia is an asymptomatic genetic condition which resul...

    Authors: Timothy Bhattacharyya, Smita Jha, Hongying Wang, Daniel L. Kastner and Elaine F. Remmers
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:332
  5. Treatment with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) is a common component of treatment regimens for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Etoricoxib is a COX-2 selective NSAID that has demonstrated efficacy in t...

    Authors: Kara Bickham, Alan J. Kivitz, Anish Mehta, Nancy Frontera, Sandhya Shah, Paul Stryszak, Zoran Popmihajlov and Paul M. Peloso
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:331
  6. Surveys of patient satisfaction and their willingness to return can be used for the optimization of processes, improving their quality, and increasing the satisfaction and loyalty in customers. This study look...

    Authors: Tom Schaal, Tonio Schoenfelder, Joerg Klewer and Joachim Kugler
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:330
  7. Relative young and more active patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the isolated medial femorotibial compartment in conjunction with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) deficiency are difficult to treat. The aim ...

    Authors: Shaoqi Tian, Bin Wang, Yuanhe Wang, Chengzhi Ha, Lun Liu and Kang Sun
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:327
  8. This study assessed the incidence and excess mortality of hip fractures among inpatients aged 20–40 years in a nationwide population database in Taiwan.

    Authors: Tsai-Hsueh Leu, Wei-Chun Chang, Jeff Chien-Fu Lin, Chi Lo, Wen-Miin Liang, Yu-Jun Chang, Dann-Pyng Shih, Cheng-Chun Wu, Chi-Fung Cheng and Sy-Jye Wei
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:326
  9. Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy (NPMP) has been an established treatment approach for more than 50 years, although mostly in the Scandinavian countries, and is usually applied to patients with widespread a...

    Authors: Tove Dragesund and Alice Kvåle
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:325
  10. There is evidence that postmenopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on glucocorticoid (GC) therapy and bisphosphonate (BP) have an increased risk for atypical subtrochanteric and atypical diaphyseal fem...

    Authors: Rahel Meinen, Inna Galli-Lysak, Peter M. Villiger and Daniel Aeberli
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:324
  11. Epidemic myalgia is a disease that presents with fever and extreme myalgia of the trunk due to an acute enterovirus infection. The trunk pain is mainly in the chest or in the epigastrium. We aimed to highlight...

    Authors: Tsuneaki Kenzaka, Yukariko Hida, Masanori Matsumoto and Hozuka Akita
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:323
  12. Infections are a common complication of RA with associated morbidity and mortality. The aetiology of increased risk is complex and multifactorial. Despite this, strategies to mitigate against risk of infection...

    Authors: Sujith Subesinghe, Andrew Ian Rutherford, Fowzia Ibrahim, Helen Harris and James Galloway
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:322
  13. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) refers to a number of rare chronic inflammatory diseases. Although JIA imposes a significant societal burden, limited data are available on the cost of JIA. The study’s obje...

    Authors: Aris Angelis, Panos Kanavos, Julio López-Bastida, Renata Linertová and Pedro Serrano-Aguilar
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:321
  14. In Japan, the majority of hip osteoarthritis (OA) was caused by acetabular dysplasia, and about 90 % of patients were female. The present study focused on Japanese female patients with hip OA due to acetabular...

    Authors: Satoko Ohfuji, Seiya Jingushi, Kyoko Kondo, Muroto Sofue, Moritoshi Itoman, Tadami Matsumoto, Yoshiki Hamada, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yoshio Takatori, Harumoto Yamada, Yuji Yasunaga, Hiroshi Ito, Satoshi Mori, Ichiro Owan, Genji Fujii, Hirotsugu Ohashi…
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:320
  15. Autologous blood transfusion (ABT) drainage system is a new unwashed salvaged blood retransfusion system for total knee replacement (TKA). However, whether to use ABT drainage, closed-suction (CS) drainage or ...

    Authors: Kun-hao Hong, Jian-ke Pan, Wei-yi Yang, Ming-hui Luo, Shu-chai Xu and Jun Liu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:142
  16. It is recognised that back pain (BP) is a debilitating medical problem in the soldier community, which limits operational readiness as well as work ability. As such, identification of risk factors is a necessi...

    Authors: Andreas Monnier, Mats Djupsjöbacka, Helena Larsson, Kjell Norman and Björn O. Äng
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:319
  17. Tibiotalocalcaneal arthrodesis (TTCA) using intramedullary nails is a salvage procedure for many diseases in the ankle and subtalar joint. Despite “newly described intramedullary nails” with specific anatomica...

    Authors: Julia Evers, Martin Schulze, Dominic Gehweiler, Martin Lakemeier, Michael J. Raschke, Dirk Wähnert and Sabine Ochman
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:318
  18. Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) in adolescents can influence functioning and well-being, and has negative consequences for families and society as well. According to the Fear Avoidance Model, fear of moveme...

    Authors: Carolien Dekker, Mariëlle E. J. B. Goossens, Caroline H. G. Bastiaenen and Jeanine A. M. C. F. Verbunt
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:317
  19. Behavioral medicine (BM) treatment is recommended to be implemented for pain management in physical therapy. Its implementation requires physical therapists (PTs), who are skilled at performing functional beha...

    Authors: C. Emilson, P. Åsenlöf, S. Pettersson, S. Bergman, M. Sandborgh, C. Martin and I. Demmelmaier
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:316
  20. With the increasingly severe energy shortage and climate change problems, developing wind power has become a key energy development strategy and an inevitable choice to protect the ecological environment world...

    Authors: Ning Jia, Tao Li, Shuangqiu Hu, Xinhe Zhu, Kang Sun, Long Yi, Qiong Zhang, Guilian Luo, Yuzhen Li, Xueyan Zhang, Yongen Gu and Zhongxu Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:314
  21. Intravenous tranexamic acid (IV TXA) is one of the most effective agents in use for reducing blood loss following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) but its safety regarding venous thromboembolic events (VTEs) rema...

    Authors: P Pinsornsak, S Rojanavijitkul and S Chumchuen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:313
  22. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a novel self-administered questionnaire for assessing the patient’s own range of motion (ROM) of the wrist and the elbow.

    Authors: Marc Schnetzke, Svenja Schüler, Holger Keil, Sara Aytac, Stefan Studier-Fischer, Paul-Alfred Grützner and Thorsten Guehring
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:312
  23. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a complex arthritic condition in which the genetic factor plays a crucial role. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs1137101 (Gln223Arg) of leptin receptor (LEPR) gene has been demo...

    Authors: Jianhui Yang, Heng Du, Jianguo Lv and Lianhe Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:311
  24. The results of studies investigating the association between the ladybird homeobox 1 (LBX1) gene polymorphisms and the risk of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) are not all the same. As such, we performed a m...

    Authors: Yaqin Cao, Jikang Min, Qianghua Zhang, Heng Li and Haidong Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:309
  25. Femoral neck fractures are a common occurrence in patients suffering from osteoporosis, while intracapsular hip fracture is rare in cases of osteoarthritis of the hip. Previous histomorphometric studies have e...

    Authors: Jan Vaculík, Martin Braun, Pavel Dungl, Karel Pavelka and Jan J. Stepan
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:308
  26. Although there are many studies discussing the etiological and pathological factors leading to both, acute and chronic tendon injuries, the pathophysiology of tendon injuries is still not clearly understood. A...

    Authors: Esra Arslan, Thomas Nellesen, Andreas Bayer, Andreas Prescher, Sebastian Lippross, Sven Nebelung, Holger Jahr, Christine Jaeger, Wolf Dietrich Huebner, Horst Fischer, Marcus Stoffel, Mehdi Shakibaei, Thomas Pufe and Mersedeh Tohidnezhad
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:307
  27. Giant cell tumor of the bone (GCTB) is classified as an intermediate, locally aggressive but rarely metastasizing tumor. The mainstay of treatment for the treatment of GCTB had been the surgical removal until ...

    Authors: Akihiko Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya, Takeshi Ishii, Yoshihiro Nishida, Satoshi Abe, Akihiko Matsumine, Akira Kawai, Kenichi Yoshimura and Takafumi Ueda
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:306
  28. Spinal sagittal imbalance is a widely acknowledged problem, but there is insufficient knowledge regarding its occurrence. In some patients with lumbar disc herniation (LDH), their symptom is similar to spinal ...

    Authors: Chen Liang, Jianmin Sun, Xingang Cui, Zhensong Jiang, Wen Zhang and Tao Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:305
  29. There is approximately a 17 % dissatisfaction rate with knee replacements. Calls for tools that can pre-operatively identify patients at risk of being dissatisfied have been widespread. However, it is not know...

    Authors: Timothy Barlow, Patricia Scott, Damian Griffin and Alba Realpe
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:304
  30. School scoliosis screening has been carried out around the world. The screen program has never been performed on Chongming Island, the third largest island in China and characterized less population exchange w...

    Authors: Qing Du, Xuan Zhou, Stefano Negrini, Nan Chen, Xiaoyan Yang, Juping Liang and Kun Sun
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:303
  31. Cartilage tissue engineering is a promising approach for repairing and regenerating cartilage tissue. To date, attempts have been made to construct zonal cartilage that mimics the cartilaginous matrix in diffe...

    Authors: Xiang Ren, Fuyou Wang, Cheng Chen, Xiaoyuan Gong, Li Yin and Liu Yang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:301
  32. For osteoporotic femoral neck fractures, suitable bone-implant stability is critical for pain relief, early return to daily activities and reduction of complications. Teriparatide (parathyroid hormone [PTH1-34...

    Authors: Tsan-Wen Huang, Kuo-Chin Huang, Shih-Jie Lin, Po-Yao Chuang, Hsin-Nung Shih, Mel S. Lee, Robert Wen-Wei Hsu and Wun-Jer Shen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:300
  33. Accelerated knee osteoarthritis may be a unique subset of knee osteoarthritis, which is associated with greater knee pain and disability. Identifying risk factors for accelerated knee osteoarthritis is vital t...

    Authors: Jeffrey B. Driban, Alina C. Stout, Jeffrey Duryea, Grace H. Lo, William F. Harvey, Lori Lyn Price, Robert J. Ward, Charles B. Eaton, Mary F. Barbe, Bing Lu and Timothy E. McAlindon
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:299
  34. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients failing disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) may undergo anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor (anti-TNF) therapy. Using the Quebec health services administrative databases, w...

    Authors: Marina Amaral de Ávila Machado, Sasha Bernatsky, Louis Bessette, Hacene Nedjar and Elham Rahme
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:298
  35. The aims of our study were to evaluate the validation of measurement of weight-bearing lateral radiographs. Two hypotheses were tested: the measurements on the lateral radiographs are reliable, and a theoretic...

    Authors: Changjun Guo, Yuan Zhu, Mu Hu, Lianfu Deng and Xiangyang Xu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:297
  36. Police officers are required to perform dynamic movements in unpredictable environments, the results of which can lead to injury. Early identification of poor movement patterns of a police population, and pote...

    Authors: Robin Marc Orr, Rodney Pope, Michael Stierli and Ben Hinton
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:296
  37. Concerns about test administration, reliability estimations, content and internal structure (dimensionality) of available shoulder measures for people with proximal humeral facture led to the development of a ...

    Authors: Alexander T. M. van de Water, Megan Davidson, Nora Shields, Matthew C. Evans and Nicholas F. Taylor
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:295
  38. Patient participation is an important indicator of quality care. Currently, there is little evidence to support the belief that participation in care is possible for patients during the acute postoperative per...

    Authors: Jo McDonall, Richard de Steiger, John Reynolds, Bernice Redley, Patricia Livingston and Mari Botti
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:294
  39. Glucocorticoids (GCs), such as prednisone, are the standard of care for several inflammatory and immunologically mediated diseases, but their chronic systemic administration is severely limited by serious adve...

    Authors: Dona L. Fleishaker, Arnab Mukherjee, Fredrick S. Whaley, Shanthini Daniel and Bernhardt G. Zeiher
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:293
  40. Focal lesions to the articular cartilage in the knee might have demolishing consequences to the knee. There exists a wide range of possible surgical procedures targeting these injuries, however no significant ...

    Authors: Tommy Frøseth Aae, Per-Henrik Randsborg, Anne Berg Breen, Håvard Visnes, Søren Vindfeld, Einar Andreas Sivertsen, Sverre Løken, Jan Brinchmann, Heidi Andreassen Hanvold and Asbjørn Årøen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:292
  41. Associations between socioeconomic position (SEP) and the uptake of primary total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) is not well understood in the Australian population, thus potentially limiting equitable allocation...

    Authors: Sharon L. Brennan-Olsen, Richard S. Page, Stephen E. Lane, Michelle Lorimer, Rachelle Buchbinder, Richard H. Osborne, Julie A. Pasco, Anita E. Wluka, Kerrie M. Sanders, Peter R. Ebeling and Stephen E. Graves
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:291
  42. The balance between Th17 cells and regulatory T (Treg) cells has been shown to play an important role in the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Recent studies have shown that treatment with abatacept (A...

    Authors: Yoshifumi Tada, Nobuyuki Ono, Rie Suematsu, Satoko Tashiro, Yuri Sadanaga, Yukiko Tokuda, Yukihide Ono, Yoshinobu Nakao, Akihito Maruyama, Akihide Ohta and Syuichi Koarada
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:290
  43. The treatment of elderly patients with Kashin-Beck disease (KBD) remains clinically challenging, and clinical data are very lacking. The aim of this study was to retrospectively evaluate pain and functional ou...

    Authors: Xin Tang, Jing Zhu, Zongke Zhou, Bin Shen, Pengde Kang, Fuxing Pei and Jian Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:289
  44. The management of displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures (DIACFs) remains challenging and controversial. A prospective randomized controlled trial was conducted to compare percutaneous reduction, cannul...

    Authors: Yongzeng Feng, Xiaolong Shui, Jianshun Wang, Leyi Cai, Yang Yu, Xiaozhou Ying, Jianzhong Kong and Jianjun Hong
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:288
  45. Tibial head depression fractures demand a high level of fracture stabilization to prevent a secondary loss of reduction after surgery. Elderly individuals are at an increased risk of developing these fractures...

    Authors: Martin C. Jordan, Christina Zimmermann, Sheridan A. Gho, Soenke P. Frey, Torsten Blunk, Rainer H. Meffert and Stefanie Hoelscher-Doht
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:287

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