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  1. Cross-sectional studies have shown associations between lumbar degenerative manifestations on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and low back pain (LBP). Disc herniations and other degenerative manifestations, h...

    Authors: Ole Kudsk Jensen, Claus Vinther Nielsen, Joan Solgaard Sørensen and Kristian Stengaard-Pedersen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:374
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  2. For the analysis of different treatments concerning anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture, objective methods for the quantification of knee stability are needed. Therefore, a new method for in-vivo stabilit...

    Authors: Andrea Lorenz, Verena Krickl, Ingmar Ipach, Eva-Maria Arlt, Nikolaus Wülker and Ulf G. Leichtle
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:373
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  3. In the last decades a lot of new reconstructive techniques were developed for the treatment of mangled lower extremity. However failed attempt to limb salvage is related to high risk of mortality for the patie...

    Authors: Giuseppe Rosario Schirò, Sergio Sessa, Andrea Piccioli and Giulio Maccauro
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:372
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  4. Short stems have become more and more popular for cementless total hip arthroplasty in the past few years. While conventional, uncemented straight stems for primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) have shown high...

    Authors: Michael W. Maier, Marcus R. Streit, Moritz M. Innmann, Marlis Krüger, Jan Nadorf, J. Philippe Kretzer, Volker Ewerbeck and Tobias Gotterbarm
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:371
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  26. Low back pain is a common and costly health complaint for which there are several moderately effective treatments. In some fields there is evidence that funder and financial conflicts are associated with trial...

    Authors: Robert Froud, Tom Bjørkli, Philip Bright, Dévan Rajendran, Rachelle Buchbinder, Martin Underwood, David Evans and Sandra Eldridge
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:370
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  27. Benign primary bone tumors are commonly treated by surgery involving bone grafts or synthetic bone void fillers. Although synthetic bone grafts may provide early mechanical support while minimizing the risk of...

    Authors: Jacek Kaczmarczyk, Piotr Sowinski, Maciej Goch and Katarzyna Katulska
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:369
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  28. No treatment to date is available which specifically targets bone formation in ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Several recent studies have shown that sclerostin (SOST), a Wnt inhibitor specific to osteocytes and ...

    Authors: Katelin R. Haynes, Hsu-Wen Tseng, Michaela Kneissel, Tibor T. Glant, Matthew A. Brown and Gethin P. Thomas
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:368
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  29. Low back pain (LBP) is the world’s leading cause of disability and yet poorly understood. Cross-national comparisons may motivate hypotheses about outcomes being condition-specific or related to cultural diffe...

    Authors: Alice Kongsted, Laura Davies and Iben Axen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:367
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  30. To investigate and compare the impact of primary hip (THA) and knee (TKA) arthroplasty on quality of life in patients with osteoarthritis, to determine patients’ satisfaction with total joint arthroplasty, and...

    Authors: Zoe H. Dailiana, Ippolyti Papakostidou, Sokratis Varitimidis, Lycurgos Liaropoulos, Elias Zintzaras, Theofilos Karachalios, Emmanuel Michelinakis and Konstantinos N. Malizos
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:366
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  31. Fracture of an ossified Achilles tendon is a rare entity, and no standard treatment has been established. This is the first report to describe the use of a hamstring tendon graft and gastrocnemius fascia flap ...

    Authors: Hisatoshi Ishikura, Naoshi Fukui, Hiroshi Takamure, Satoru Ohashi, Mitsuyasu Iwasawa, Kentaro Takagi, Ayako Horita, Ikuo Saito and Toshihito Mori
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:365
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  32. Musculoskeletal pain in people with type 2 diabetes is a common issue even to this day. The study aimed to explore the 10-year cumulative incidence of musculoskeletal pain, the mean number of doctor visits for...

    Authors: Lee-Wen Pai, Chin-Tun Hung, Shu-Fen Li, Li-Li Chen, Yueh- Chin Chung and Hsin-Li Liu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:364
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  33. Local corticosteroid injections are commonly used to improve the short-term symptomatic severity and the functional status of the hands affected by carpal tunnel syndrome. We conducted a systematic review and ...

    Authors: Po-Cheng Chen, Ching-Hui Chuang, Yu-Kang Tu, Chyi-Huey Bai, Chieh-Feng Chen and Mei- Yun Liaw
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:363
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  34. The treatment of infection-related delayed bone unions is still very challenging for the orthopedic surgeon. The prevalence of such infection-related types of osteitis is high in complex fractures, particularl...

    Authors: Lars Helbig, Thorsten Guehring, Svenja Rosenberger, Adriana Ivanova, Kathrin Kaeppler, Christian Alexander Fischer, Arash Moghaddam and Gerhard Schmidmaier
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:362
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  35. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a serious problem in the recent aging society, and early diagnosis and intervention of articular cartilage degeneration are very important for the onset of OA. Therefore, development of ...

    Authors: Si Shen, Hao Wang, Jing Zhang, Fei Wang and Meng Chen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:361
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  36. Hook plate (HP) is popularly used for acute and severely displaced acromioclavicular (AC) dislocations. However, subacromial impingement and acromion osteolysis induced by transarticular fixation are notorious...

    Authors: You-Shui Gao, Yue-Lei Zhang, Zi-Sheng Ai, Yu-Qiang Sun, Chang-Qing Zhang and Wei Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:360
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  37. Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common cause of disability in the elderly. Clinical frailty is associated with high mortality, but few studies have explored the relationship between OA and frailty.

    Authors: Maria Victoria Castell, Suzan van der Pas, Angel Otero, Paola Siviero, Elaine Dennison, Michael Denkinger, Nancy Pedersen, Mercedes Sanchez-Martinez, Rocio Queipo, Natasja van Schoor, Sabina Zambon, Mark Edwards, Richard Peter, Laura Schaap and Dorly Deeg
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:359
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  38. Sitting for more than 8 h a day has been shown to negatively impact health and mortality while standing is the recommended healthier alternative. Home-based standing programs are commonly recommended for adult...

    Authors: Ginny Paleg and Roslyn Livingstone
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:358
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  39. To compare instruments designed for arthroscopic suture handling during arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, to assess the force needed to penetrate the tendon, and to evaluate the residual defect size.

    Authors: Christopher G. Lenz, Karl Wieser, Georg Lajtai and Dominik C. Meyer
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:357
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  41. Prolonged bisphosphonate treatment might suppress bone remodeling to the extent that normal bone repair is impaired. While this adverse side effect is usually ascribed to the negative effects of bisphosphonate...

    Authors: Kuo-Chin Huang, Chin-Chang Cheng, Po-Yao Chuang and Tien-Yu Yang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:355
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  42. Recommendations for rheumatology nursing management of chronic inflammatory arthritis (CIA) from European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) states that nurses should take part in the monitoring patients’ disea...

    Authors: Ingrid Larsson, Bengt Fridlund, Barbro Arvidsson, Annika Teleman, Petra Svedberg and Stefan Bergman
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:354
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  43. It is still unclear whether high flexion (HF) activities correlated with the early loosening of the femoral component and whether HF activities are possible. We investigated what is the capability for performi...

    Authors: Chul-Won Ha, Chandramohan Ravichandran, Choong-Hee Lee, Jun-Ho Kim and Yong-Beom Park
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:353
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  44. Exercise programmes have shown to be important for the prevention of fractures in patients with established osteoporosis. However, few studies have evaluated the effect of such programmes for women with low bo...

    Authors: K. A. Hakestad, M. K. Torstveit, L. Nordsletten and M. A. Risberg
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:352
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  45. In cerebral palsy (CP) there is an increased risk of scoliosis. It is important to identify a progressive scoliosis early-on because the results of surgery depend on the magnitude of the curve. The Swedish fol...

    Authors: Måns Persson-Bunke, Tomasz Czuba, Gunnar Hägglund and Elisabet Rodby-Bousquet
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:351
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  46. The efficiency of treating simple bone cyst (SBC) is low. Depending on the choice of treatment, a positive response occurs in 20 to 80 % of cases. These rates are unacceptable, particularly considering they co...

    Authors: Pawel Flont, Krzysztof Malecki, Anna Niewola, Zbigniew Lipczyk and Kryspin Niedzielski
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:350
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  47. All diabetic neuroosteoarthropathy (Charcot arthropathy) treatment concepts are focused on a long-term infection-free, ulcer-free, and plantigrade sufficiently stable foot in order to avoid amputation. Reconst...

    Authors: Anica Eschler, Georg Gradl, Annekatrin Wussow and Thomas Mittlmeier
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:349
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  48. Many injury prevention and rehabilitation programs aim to train hamstring and quadriceps co-activation to constrain excessive anterior tibial translation and protect the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) from i...

    Authors: Benjamin G. Serpell, Jennie M. Scarvell, Mark R. Pickering, Nick B. Ball, Phillip Newman, Diana Perriman, John Warmenhoven and Paul N. Smith
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:348
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  49. Axial spondyloarthropathy typically has its onset in early adulthood and can impact significantly on quality of life. In the UK, biologic anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy is recommended for patients who are...

    Authors: Gary J. Macfarlane, Maxwell S. Barnish, Elizabeth A. Jones, Lesley Kay, Andrew Keat, Karen T. Meldrum, Ejaz Pathan, Roger D. Sturrock, Claudia Zabke, Paul McNamee and Gareth T. Jones
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:347
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  50. Current research emphasizes the high prevalence and costs of low back pain (LBP). The STarT Back Tool was designed to support primary care decision making for treatment by helping to determine the treatment pr...

    Authors: Sven Karstens, Katja Krug, Jonathan C. Hill, Christian Stock, Jost Steinhaeuser, Joachim Szecsenyi and Stefanie Joos
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:346
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