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  1. Chronic pain (CP) can be a symptom of many underlying health issues. The consequences of CP may vary from slight discomfort to disruption of quality of life and normal functioning. In this study, we aim to inv...

    Authors: Ashraf El-Metwally, Quratulain Shaikh, Abdulrahman Aldiab, Jamaan Al-Zahrani, Sameer Al-Ghamdi, Abdullah A. Alrasheed, Mowafa Househ, Omar B. Da’ar, Shanila Nooruddin, Hira Abdul Razzak and Khaled K. Aldossari
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:177
  2. Few, if any, patient reported symptoms have been shown to be related to objective measures of spine function. Recently, patient-reported measures of disability following spinal manipulative therapy have been a...

    Authors: Maliheh Hadizadeh, Greg N. Kawchuk and Eric Parent
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:176
  3. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are prevalent in working populations and could result in a number of detrimental consequences. In China, healthcare professionals (HCP) in large hospitals may be likely to suff...

    Authors: Hongyun Dong, Qiong Zhang, Guangzeng Liu, Tingguo Shao and Yingzhi Xu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:175
  4. The objectives of this study were to assess the maintenance of effect of duloxetine 60 mg once-daily (QD) in Chinese patients with chronic pain due to osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee or hip and to provide addi...

    Authors: Guochun Wang, Liqi Bi, Xiangpei Li, Zhijun Li, Dongbao Zhao, Jinwei Chen, Dongyi He, Chia-Ning Wang, Tao Wu, Héctor Dueñas, Vladimir Skljarevski and Li Yue
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:174
  5. As several neurologic and hardware complications have been reported with screw fixation. Suture buttons are used to serve as an alternative to screw fixation to obtain better outcome and to reduce the complica...

    Authors: Jian Xu, Haifeng Liu, Wei Lu, Weimin Zhu, Liangquan Peng, Kan Ouyang, Hao Li and Daping Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:173
  6. Hip resurfacing arthroplasty (HRA) and in particular, Birmingham hip resurfacing (BHR), is commonly employed as an alternative to total hip arthroplasty (THA) in young patients, as it allows for preservation o...

    Authors: Olga S. Pérez-Moro, Marcos E. Fernández-Cuadros, Inmaculada Neira-Borrajo, Eduvigis Aranda-Izquierdo, María J. Albaladejo-Florin and Rafael Llopis-Miró
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:172
  7. Osteoid osteoma is a benign bone-forming tumour, which very unfrequently has multifocal or multicentric presentation. We report the first known case of a multicentric, multifocal and recurrent osteoid osteoma ...

    Authors: Maria Cristina Cortese, Domenico Albano, Carmelo Messina, Giuseppe Perrucchini, Enrico Gallazzi, Mauro Battista Gallazzi, Primo Andrea Daolio and Luca Maria Sconfienza
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:171
  8. A small cross sectional area (CSA) of the paraspinal muscles may be related to low back pain among military aviators but previous studies have mainly concentrated on spinal disc degeneration. Therefore, the pr...

    Authors: Tuomas Honkanen, Matti Mäntysaari, Tuomo Leino, Janne Avela, Liisa Kerttula, Ville Haapamäki and Heikki Kyröläinen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:170
  9. Fifth metacarpal fractures are the most common fractures of the hand. These fractures are generally treated with conservative methods. The aim of this study was to compare the radiological and clinical outcome...

    Authors: Gokhan Kaynak, Huseyin Botanlioglu, Mustafa Caliskan, Bedri Karaismailoglu, Mahmut Kursat Ozsahin, Soner Kocak, Enis Yildirim, Onder Aydingoz and Mehmet Fatih Guven
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:169
  10. Schwannomas are well-encapsulated, benign neoplasms, and enucleation is a standard operation procedure. The incidence of neurological complications after surgical treatment for schwannomas of the extremities v...

    Authors: Toshihide Hirai, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Toru Akiyama, Tomotake Okuma, Hiroyuki Oka, Yusuke Shinoda, Masachika Ikegami, Yusuke Tsuda, Takashi Fukushima, Takahiro Ohki, Yuki Ishibashi, Ryoko Sawada, Takahiro Goto and Sakae Tanaka
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:166
  11. This cross-sectional study evaluated associations of joint hypermobility and multiple joint osteoarthritis (MJOA) in a community-based cohort of adults 45+ years of age.

    Authors: Terese R. Gullo, Yvonne M. Golightly, Portia Flowers, Joanne M. Jordan, Jordan B. Renner, Todd A. Schwartz, Virginia B. Kraus, Marian T. Hannan, Rebecca J. Cleveland and Amanda E. Nelson
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:165
  12. We live in a world with an ever-increasing ageing population. Studying healthy ageing and reducing the socioeconomic impact of age-related diseases is a key research priority for the industrialised and develop...

    Authors: Rebecca Lewis, Constanza B. Gómez Álvarez, Margaret Rayman, Susan Lanham-New, Anthony Woolf and Ali Mobasheri
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:164
  13. An increasing number of patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are undergoing total joint arthroplasty (TJA) surgery in China. Less attention is provided to the special populations and the purpose of ...

    Authors: Jin Wang, Guanglei Zhao, Jie Chen, Jun Xia, Siqun Wang, Gangyong Huang, Feiyan Chen, Jingsheng Shi, Yuanqing Yang and Yibing Wei
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:163
  14. Given no consensus on optimal timeframe of periarticular multimodal drug injection (PMDI) in knee osteoarthritis patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA), this study was aimed to compare the postopera...

    Authors: Artit Laoruengthana, Atthakorn Jarusriwanna, Piti Rattanaprichavej, Supachok Rasamimongkol, Panapol Varakornpipat and Krit Pongpirul
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:162
  15. Post-operative limb swelling may negatively affect the outcome of arthroscopic surgery and prolong rehabilitation. The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the effect of compression stockings versus no comp...

    Authors: Tina S. Tischer, Sebastian Oye, Robert Lenz, Peter Kreuz, Wolfram Mittelmeier, Rainer Bader and Thomas Tischer
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:161
  16. Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is common in elderly people, causes pain, loss of physical functioning, and disability. This was a two-arm, superiority, quasi-experimental trial. The aim of this study was to evaluat...

    Authors: Hongbo Chen, Xiaoyan Zheng, Hongjie Huang, Congying Liu, Qiaoqin Wan and Shaomei Shang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:160
  17. Previous studies reported the beneficial effects of walking in individual with mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis (OA). The current study aimed to compare the effect of 6-week retro versus forward walking pr...

    Authors: Ahmad H. Alghadir, Shahnawaz Anwer, Bibhuti Sarkar, Ashis K. Paul and Dilshad Anwar
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:159
  18. Chronic low back pain (cLBP) affects millions of Americans and costs billions. Studies suggest a link between cLBP and joint hypermobility.

    Authors: Adam P. Goode, Rebecca J. Cleveland, Todd A. Schwartz, Amanda E. Nelson, Virginia B. Kraus, Howard J. Hillstrom, Marian T. Hannan, Portia Flowers, Jordan B. Renner, Joanne M. Jordan and Yvonne M. Golightly
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:158
  19. Endoscopic carpal tunnel release (ECTR) has been gradually adopted for the treatment of severe carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). However, perioperative assessment of neuroanatomical parameters of median nerve, whi...

    Authors: Miao Li, Jue Jiang, Qi Zhou and Chen Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:157

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:562

  20. This systematic review focusses on inflammation as an underlying pathogenic mechanism in sciatica. We addressed two questions in particular: (1) what inflammatory biomarkers have been identified in patients wi...

    Authors: Maarten J. Jungen, Bastiaan C. ter Meulen, Tim van Osch, Henry C. Weinstein and Raymond W. J. G. Ostelo
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:156
  21. Lumbar traction is a traditional treatment modality for chronic low back pain (CLBP) in many countries. However, its effectiveness has not been demonstrated in clinical practice because of the following: (1) t...

    Authors: Shigeru Tadano, Hideki Tanabe, Sadao Arai, Keiji Fujino, Tokuhide Doi and Masami Akai
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:155
  22. Gorham-Stout syndrome (GSS) with spinal involvement is extremely rare, and bilateral chylothorax as a complication is usually fatal. In our case, pleural effusion appeared in the left hemithorax after ligating...

    Authors: Peng Wang, Wenbo Liao, Guangru Cao and Yongyan Jiang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:154
  23. Literature addressing the mechanical properties of kinesiology tape is quite scarce. There are no studies which focus on the mechanical characteristics of kinesiology tape, its mechanical properties, nor its a...

    Authors: Francisco Selva, Alberto Pardo, Xavier Aguado, Ignacio Montava, Luis Gil-Santos and Carlos Barrios
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:153
  24. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the modality of choice for diagnosing and monitoring muscular tissue pathologies and bone marrow alterations in the context of lower back pain, neuromuscular diseases and os...

    Authors: Egon Burian, Alexander Rohrmeier, Sarah Schlaeger, Michael Dieckmeyer, Maximilian N. Diefenbach, Jan Syväri, Elisabeth Klupp, Dominik Weidlich, Claus Zimmer, Ernst J. Rummeny, Dimitrios C. Karampinos, Jan S. Kirschke and Thomas Baum
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:152
  25. There is no cure for knee osteoarthritis (KOA) and typically patients live approximately 30-years with the disease. Most common medical treatments result in short-term palliation of symptoms with little consid...

    Authors: Jonathon Charlesworth, Jane Fitzpatrick, Nirmala Kanthi Panagodage Perera and John Orchard
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:151
  26. Humeral stress fractures are rare injuries usually related to sports practice and joint overload without a direct trauma. A proximal humeral stress fracture has never been reported in a CrossFit athlete.

    Authors: Ivan R. B. Godoy, Eduardo A. Malavolta, Jan Stefan Lundberg, Jader J. da Silva and Abdalla Skaf
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:150

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:289

  27. The aim of the study was to evaluate changes in plantar pressure distribution in feet affected by hallux valgus compared with their contralateral non-affected feet and with the feet of healthy control subjects.

    Authors: Ulf Krister Hofmann, Marco Götze, Katharina Wiesenreiter, Otto Müller, Markus Wünschel and Falk Mittag
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:149
  28. Surgical treatment is mainly used for atlantoaxial tuberculosis with neurological damage. However, the anatomic structure around the atlantoaxial joint is complex, and the position of vertebral body is deep, w...

    Authors: Biao Wang, Rongan Shang, Tong Yang, Haiping Zhang, Huimin Hu, Wei Hu and Dingjun Hao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:148
  29. The most common location for articular fractures of the radial head is often reported to be the anterior lateral aspect of the radial head with the arm in neutral position. However, these findings mainly base ...

    Authors: Lucca Lacheta, Sebastian Siebenlist, Maximillian Lauber, Lukas Willinger, Nicole Fischer, Andreas B. Imhoff and Andreas Lenich
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:147
  30. Although the stenotic femoral intercondylar notch was associated with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, the parameters for notch assessment were numerous. The present study aimed to compare the 2-dime...

    Authors: Chengyuan Zhang, Xuancheng Zhang, Zhaoyi Fang, Feng Wang, Feng Yuan, Guoming Xie and Jinzhong Zhao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:146
  31. Adhesive capsulitis (AC) is a disabling and poorly understood pathological condition of the shoulder joint. The current study aims to increase our understanding of the pathogenesis, diagnosis and clinical outc...

    Authors: Richard S. Page, Sean L. McGee, Kevin Eng, Graeme Brown, Sally Beattie, Fiona Collier and Stephen D. Gill
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:145
  32. This study compared clinical, laboratory and radiographic features of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) between ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nrAxSpA) of young male pa...

    Authors: Hong Ki Min, Hyonjoung Cho and Sung-Hwan Park
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:144
  33. Microvascular problems like increased intraosseous pressure or venous congestion may influence the development of Kienböck’s disease. We examined if wrist position modifies the blood flow in the nutrient vessels.

    Authors: S. Kim, F. Eichenauer, A. Asmus, S. Mutze, A. Eisenschenk and P. Honigmann
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:143
  34. The number of studies and clinical interest in the anterolateral ligament of the knee (ALL) has grown in recent years. A meticulous and accurate ALL dissection is vital in anatomic and biomechanical studies, a...

    Authors: Diego Ariel de Lima, Camilo Partezani Helito, Matthew Daggett, Francisco Magalhães Monteiro Neto, Lana Lacerda de Lima, José Alberto Dias Leite and Maria Luzete Costa Cavalcante
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:142
  35. It has been suggested that smoking is associated with reduced risk of knee osteoarthritis (OA). However, supplementary studies are needed to further investigate any such potential association. Thus, our aim wa...

    Authors: Marianne Bakke Johnsen, Kenneth Pihl, Nis Nissen, Rasmus Reinholdt Sørensen, Uffe Jørgensen, Martin Englund and Jonas Bloch Thorlund
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:141
  36. We have previously reported quantitative exposure-response relationships between physical exposures recorded by technical methods, and complaints and diagnoses in the neck/shoulders, and the elbows/hands, base...

    Authors: Istvan Balogh, Inger Arvidsson, Jonas Björk, Gert-Åke Hansson, Kerstina Ohlsson, Staffan Skerfving and Catarina Nordander
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:139
  37. The gracilis tendon is commonly used as an autograft to reconstruct torn tendons or ligaments in many parts of the body. Little is known about the subjective and functional outcome after gracilis tendon harves...

    Authors: Jonas S. Nordin, Ola Olsson and Karl Lunsjö
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:138
  38. Physical capacity tasks are useful tools to assess functioning in patients with low back pain (LBP), but evidence is scarce regarding the responsiveness (ability to detect change over time) and minimal importa...

    Authors: Max Jakobsson, Helena Brisby, Annelie Gutke, Mari Lundberg and Rob Smeets
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:137
  39. It is known that there are large regional variations in treatment methods for the management of proximal humeral fractures. The objective of this study was to investigate the national surgical trends in elderl...

    Authors: Young-Hoon Jo, Kwang-Hyun Lee and Bong-Gun Lee
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:136
  40. Dupuytren’s disease (DD) is a progressive, debilitating condition of the hand that can eventually cause contractures of the affected fingers. Transforming growth factor- β1 (TGF-β1) has been reported to play a...

    Authors: Chaoming Zhou, Yael Zeldin, Mark E. Baratz, Sandeep Kathju and Latha Satish
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:135
  41. Sufficient data on outcome of patients with clinically and radiologically aggressive enchondromas and atypical cartilaginous tumors (ACT) is lacking. We therefore analyzed both conservatively and surgically tr...

    Authors: Georg W. Omlor, Vera Lohnherr, Jessica Lange, Simone Gantz, Gunhild Mechtersheimer, Christian Merle, Patric Raiss, Joerg Fellenberg and Burkhard Lehner
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:134
  42. Recent findings indicate that wide international variation in the prevalence of disabling regional musculoskeletal pain among working populations is driven by unidentified factors predisposing to pain at multi...

    Authors: E. Rizzello, G. Ntani, I. Madan and D. Coggon
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:133
  43. The Zimmer Trabecular Metal Total Ankle Replacement (Zimmer TM TAR) is a recent ankle arthroplasty approved for use in the United States and Europe. Many of the studies reporting the results of this implant ar...

    Authors: Alberto Bianchi, Nicolò Martinelli, Mohammad Hosseinzadeh, Jacopo Flore, Carlo Minoli, Francesco Malerba and Fabio Galbusera
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:132
  44. Hip fracture in elderly patients is a serious health concern due to the associated morbidity and mortality. Although acute kidney injury after hip fracture is known to be a significantly poor prognostic factor...

    Authors: Woo Young Jang, Jae-Kyun Jung, Dong Ki Lee and Seung-Beom Han
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:131
  45. Involuntary hamstring muscle activity is present in some people during the straight leg raise test, but it is not known to what extent involuntary muscle activity limits passive joint range of motion. This stu...

    Authors: Yanni Foo, Martin E. Héroux, Lionel Chia and Joanna Diong
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:130
  46. A novel loaded self-managed exercise programme that includes pain education and self-management strategies may result in better outcomes for people with patellofemoral pain (PFP). However, establishing program...

    Authors: Benjamin E. Smith, Paul Hendrick, Marcus Bateman, Fiona Moffatt, Michael Skovdal Rathleff, James Selfe, Toby O. Smith and Pip Logan
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:129
  47. The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability of plain radiographic methods of determining the lunate type and its compatibility with magnetic resonance arthrography (MRA) findings.

    Authors: Ji Hun Park, Tae Wook Kang, Jimi Choi, Seul Gi Kim, Kyung-Sik Ahn and Jong Woong Park
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:128

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