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  1. Some studies suggest that leg length discrepancy (LLD) is associated with low back pain (LBP) but many have not found such an association leading to conflicting evidence on the role of LLD in LBP.

    Authors: Satu Rannisto, Annaleena Okuloff, Jukka Uitti, Markus Paananen, Pasi-Heikki Rannisto, Antti Malmivaara and Jaro Karppinen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:110
  2. A survey was conducted to evaluate whether a steady improvement in the quality of life of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients as frequently reported in clinical studies, does actually occur. The focus of this s...

    Authors: Rudolf Puchner, Hans Peter Brezinschek, Josef Fritz, Manfred Herold, Monika Mustak, Thomas Nothnagl, Stephan E Puchner, Andrea Studnicka-Benke and Burkhard F Leeb
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:109
  3. Sarcopenia is an important public health problem that affects mainly elders, and has negative consequences, such as disability and even death. Due to the lack of studies evaluating sarcopenia in elderly person...

    Authors: Bruno Prata Martinez, Anne Karine Menezes Santos Batista, Isabela Barboza Gomes, Flávia Milholo Olivieri, Fernanda Warken Rosa Camelier and Aquiles Assunção Camelier
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:108
  4. The aim of this study was to determine which combination of personal, disease-related and environmental factors is best associated with at-work productivity loss in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and...

    Authors: Myrthe van Vilsteren, Cecile RL Boot, Dirk L Knol, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg, Alexandre E Voskuyl, Romy Steenbeek and Johannes R Anema
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:107
  5. Musculoskeletal injuries during initial military training are a significant medical problem facing military organisations globally. In order to develop an injury management programme, this study aims to quanti...

    Authors: Jagannath Sharma, Julie P Greeves, Mark Byers, Alexander N Bennett and Iain R Spears
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:106
  6. Dynamic knee valgus and internal femoral rotation are proposed to be contributory risk factors for patellofemoral pain and anterior cruciate ligament injuries. Multimodal interventions including hip abductor s...

    Authors: Kathryn Palmer, Clair Hebron and Jonathan M Williams
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:105
  7. Military service in Finland is compulsory for all male citizens and annually about 80% of 19-year-old men enter into the service. The elevated risk for many chronic diseases and loss of function among those wh...

    Authors: Henri Taanila, Jaana H Suni, Pekka Kannus, Harri Pihlajamäki, Juha-Petri Ruohola, Jarmo Viskari and Jari Parkkari
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:104
  8. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) promote angiogenesis and vascular repair. Though reduced EPC levels have been shown in rheumatoid arthritis, no study has so far evaluated EPCs in children with juvenile idio...

    Authors: Giorgia Martini, Francesca Biscaro, Elisa Boscaro, Fiorella Calabrese, Francesca Lunardi, Monica Facco, Carlo Agostini, Francesco Zulian and Gian Paolo Fadini
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:103
  9. The increasing incidence of prosthesis revision surgery in the Western world has led to an increased focus on the capacity for stem removal. We previously reported on a femoral stem implanted in goats with an ...

    Authors: Knut Harboe, Christian Lycke Ellingsen, Einar Sudmann, Nils Roar Gjerdet, Kjetil Søreide and Kari Indrekvam
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:102
  10. Improving functional status preoperatively through exercise may improve postoperative outcome. Previous knowledge on preoperative exercise in knee osteoarthritis is insufficient. The aim of the study was to co...

    Authors: Erika O Huber, Ewa M Roos, André Meichtry, Rob A de Bie and Heike A Bischoff-Ferrari
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:101
  11. The evaluation of swelling is important for the outcome of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgery. The circumference or volume measurements are applicable at the bedside of the patient but are altered by muscul...

    Authors: Claude Pichonnaz, Jean-Philippe Bassin, Estelle Lécureux, Damien Currat and Brigitte M Jolles
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:100
  12. Anterior cervical discectomy with fusion is a common surgical procedure for patients experiencing pain and/or neurological deficits due to cervical spondylosis. Although iliac crest bone graft remains the gold...

    Authors: Elizabeth Chong, Matthew H Pelletier, Ralph J Mobbs and William R Walsh
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:99
  13. The association of Modic changes (MC) with low back pain (LBP) is unclear. The purpose of our study was to investigate the associations between the extent of Type 1 (M1) and Type 2 (M2) MC and low back symptom...

    Authors: Jyri Järvinen, Jaro Karppinen, Jaakko Niinimäki, Marianne Haapea, Mats Grönblad, Katariina Luoma and Eeva Rinne
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:98
  14. Lumbar spondylolisthesis (LS) and lumbar instability (LI) are common disorders in patients with low back or lumbar radicular pain. However, few physical examination tests for LS and LI have been reported. In t...

    Authors: Kang Ahn and Hyung-Joon Jhun
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:97
  15. Lumbar spinal stenosis is the most common reason for spinal surgery in elderly patients. However, the surgical management of spinal stenosis is controversial. The aim of this review was to list aspects a surge...

    Authors: Jakob M Burgstaller, François Porchet, Johann Steurer and Maria M Wertli
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:96
  16. Cementless hip cups need sufficient primary tilting stability to achieve osseointegration. The aim of the study was to assess differences of the primary implant stability in osteoporotic bone and in bone with ...

    Authors: Christoph von Schulze Pellengahr, Lars V von Engelhardt, Bernd Wegener, Peter E Müller, Andreas Fottner, Patrick Weber, Ole Ackermann, Matthias Lahner and Wolfram Teske
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:95
  17. Neck and back pain are among the most common causes of prolonged disability, and development of interventions with effect on pain, disability and return to work is important. Reduction of fear avoidance might ...

    Authors: Gunn Hege Marchand, Kjersti Myhre, Gunnar Leivseth, Leiv Sandvik, Bjørn Lau, Erik Bautz-Holter and Cecilie Røe
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:94
  18. To determine the prevalence of patient-reported joint pain among patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection, chronic HCV monoinfection, and HIV monoinfection f...

    Authors: Alexis Ogdie, Wyki Gina Pang, Kimberly A Forde, Bhangle D Samir, Lakeisha Mulugeta, Kyong-Mi Chang, David E Kaplan, Valerianna K Amorosa, Jay R Kostman, Rajender K Reddy, Ralph H Schumacher and Vincent Lo Re III
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:93
  19. Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most frequent articular disease and a leading cause of disability. There is a need for effective treatments able to slow the progression of disease. Some of the available treatments ...

    Authors: María Luisa Ferrándiz, María Carmen Terencio, María Carmen Carceller, Ramón Ruhí, Pere Dalmau, Josep Vergés, Eulàlia Montell, Anna Torrent and María José Alcaraz
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:92
  20. Non-destructive structural evaluation of the osteochondral unit is challenging. Here, the capability of high-field magnetic resonance imaging (μMRI) at 9.4 Tesla (T) was explored to examine osteochondral repair e...

    Authors: Lars Goebel, Andreas Müller, Arno Bücker and Henning Madry
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:91
  21. Thrombocytosis can follow surgery and has occasionally been observed after major orthopaedic surgery. The aim of the present study was to ascertain the platelet count (PLTC) change in patients admitted to a re...

    Authors: Domenico Intiso, Filomena Di Rienzo, Andrea Iarossi, Massimiliano Copetti, Luigi Pazienza, Mario Russo, Maurizio Tolfa and Giuseppe Maruzzi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:90
  22. Many individuals with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) are hypermobile, suffer from long term pain, and have complex health problems. Since these sometimes have no objective physical signs, individuals with EDS so...

    Authors: Britta Berglund, Carina Pettersson, Maritta Pigg and Per Kristiansson
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:89
  23. The answers to patient reported outcome measures and global transition questions for back pain can be discordant. For example, the most commonly used outcome measure in back pain trials, the Roland Morris Disa...

    Authors: Robert Froud, David Ellard, Shilpa Patel, Sandra Eldridge and Martin Underwood
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:88
  24. Other than activity and exercise, lifestyle practices such as not smoking and healthy nutrition, well established for preventing and managing lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases (i.e., heart disease, c...

    Authors: Elizabeth Dean and Anne Söderlund
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:87
  25. Hypertension is one of the most common encountered medical comorbidities after hip fracture. Whether fracture is a potential risk factor for hypertension remains poorly understood. The aim of our study was to ...

    Authors: Shuman Yang, Aimin Chen and Tianying Wu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:86
  26. Physical forces have been widely used to stimulate bone growth in fracture repair. Addition of bone growth stimulation to the conservative treatment regime is more costly than standard health care. However, it...

    Authors: Pascal F W Hannemann, Brigitte A B Essers, Judith P M Schots, Koen Dullaert, Martijn Poeze and Peter R G Brink
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:84
  27. Non-specific chronic low back pain (NSCLBP) is a major health problem. Identification of subgroups and appropriate treatment regimen was proposed as a key priority by the Cochrane Back Review Group. We develop...

    Authors: Philipp Wälti, Jan Kool and Hannu Luomajoki
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:83
  28. Biological augmentation of rotator cuff repair is of growing interest to improve biomechanical properties and prevent re-tearing. But intraoperative single shot growth factor application appears not sufficient...

    Authors: Stefan Buchmann, Gunther H Sandmann, Lars Walz, Thomas Reichel, Knut Beitzel, Gabriele Wexel, Weiwei Tian, Achim Battmann, Stephan Vogt, Gerhard Winter and Andreas B Imhoff
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:82
  29. Pedicle-screw-based posterior dynamic stabilization devices are designed to alleviate the rate of accelerated degeneration of the vertebral level adjacent to the level of spinal fusion. A new pedicle- screw-ba...

    Authors: Chen-Sheng Chen, Chang-Hung Huang and Shih-Liang Shih
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:81
  30. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an inflammatory disease with documented elevated cardiovascular (CV) risk due to systemic inflammation and a higher prevalence of CV risk factors. CV risk management (CV-RM) coul...

    Authors: Sjoerd C Heslinga, Inge A Van den Oever, Alper M Van Sijl, Mike J Peters, Irene E Van der Horst-Bruinsma, Yvo M Smulders and Michael T Nurmohamed
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:80
  31. The prescription of the oral anticoagulant rivaroxaban to prevent thromboembolic episodes associated with orthopaedic surgery has dramatically increased since it was introduced. Rivaroxaban is beeing prescribe...

    Authors: Tim Klüter, Matthias Weuster, Stefan Brüggemann, Leif Menzdorf, Stefanie Fitschen- Oestern, Nadine Steubesand, Yahya Acil, Thomas Pufe, Deike Varoga, Andreas Seekamp and Sebastian Lippross
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:79
  32. Ankle sprains are one of the most frequent injuries of the musculoskeletal system, with yearly around 680.000 new sprains in the Netherlands. Of these, about 130.000 people will visit the general practitioner ...

    Authors: Adinda KE Mailuhu, Evert ALM Verhagen, John M van Ochten, Patrick JE Bindels, Sita MA Bierma-Zeinstra and Marienke van Middelkoop
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:78
  33. Approximately a fifth of all total hip arthroplasty (THA) patients suffers from bilateral osteoarthritis of the hip. It is unclear whether mortality risks differ between simultaneous bilateral THA and staged b...

    Authors: Anne Garland, Ola Rolfson, Göran Garellick, Johan Kärrholm and Nils P Hailer
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:77

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  34. OA is a complex disease caused by environmental and genetic risk factors. The purpose of this study is to identify candidate copy number variations (CNVs) associated with OA.

    Authors: Sanghoon Moon, Bhumsuk Keam, Mi Yeong Hwang, Young Lee, Suyeon Park, Ji Hee Oh, Yeon-Jung Kim, Heun-Sik Lee, Nam Hee Kim, Young Jin Kim, Dong-Hyun Kim, Bok-Ghee Han, Bong-Jo Kim and Juyoung Lee
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:76
  35. Uncertainty exists with regards to the extent of prevalence and health care use for musculoskeletal disorders in Norway. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of chronic musculoskeletal disorder...

    Authors: Jonas Minet Kinge, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Vegard Skirbekk and Stein Emil Vollset
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:75
  36. Reports vary considerably concerning characteristics of patients who will respond to mobilizing exercises or manipulation. The objective of this prospective cohort study was to identify characteristics of pati...

    Authors: Tom Petersen, Robin Christensen and Carsten Juhl
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:74
  37. To investigate whether a modified Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Index-5 could be applied as a routine assessment tool for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients.

    Authors: Burkhard F Leeb, Pia M Haindl, Hans-Peter Brezinschek, Harsono T H Mai, Christoph Deutsch and Bernhard Rintelen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:73
  38. Degeneration of cartilage will change load distribution, affecting bone remodeling progress and trabecular structure and strength. However, in human primary osteoporosis, whether cartilage lesions would also a...

    Authors: Houchen Lv, Licheng Zhang, Fei Yang, Zhe Zhao, Qi Yao, Lihai Zhang and Peifu Tang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:72
  39. We investigated whether Body Mass Index (BMI) at 11 years old has a direct effect on bone mass at age 18 operating through alterations to bone growth and development, or whether the association is mediated by ...

    Authors: Ludmila Correa Muniz, Ana Maria Baptista Menezes, Maria Cecília Formoso Assunção, Jeovany Martínez-Mesa, Fernando Cesar Wehrmeister, Laura D Howe, Pedro Curi Hallal, Helen Gonçalves and Fernando C Barros
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:71
  40. Since the reference value is the core factor of the T-score calculation, it has a significant impact on the prevalence of osteoporosis. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of using the Korea...

    Authors: Sungwha Lee, Moon-Gi Choi, Jaemyung Yu, Ohk-Hyun Ryu, Hyung Joon Yoo, Sung-Hee Ihm, Doo-Man Kim, Eun-Gyung Hong, Kyutae Park, Myungjin Choi and Hyunhee Choi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:69
  41. In adult patients with developmental hip dysplasia, a surgical procedure (triple innominate osteotomy) of the pelvic bone can be performed to rotate the acetabulum in the frontal plane, establishing better ace...

    Authors: Sjoerd Kolk, René Fluit, Jim Luijten, Petra JC Heesterbeek, Alexander CH Geurts, Nico Verdonschot and Vivian Weerdesteyn
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:68
  42. To generate an item list for the assessment of joint awareness in shoulder patients and to collect patient feedback on the comprehensibility of the items and the forgotten joint concept.

    Authors: Johannes M Giesinger, Nicolas Kesterke, David F Hamilton, Bernhard Holzner, Bernhard Jost and Karlmeinrad Giesinger
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:67
  43. The restoration of damaged meniscus has always been a challenge due to its limited healing capacity. Recently, bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) provide a promising alternative to repair menis...

    Authors: Zhe Ding and He Huang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:65
  44. Several cross-sectional studies have estimated that the prevalence of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) ranges from 14-17% among asymptomatic young adults to almost 95% among competitive athletes. With FAI, t...

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    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:64
  45. Two common surgical approaches included the sinus tarsi and extensile lateral are used for displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures. However, few studies have compared outcome of treated by the two approa...

    Authors: Je-Hyoung Yeo, Hyun-Jong Cho and Keun-Bae Lee
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:63
  46. The aim of the present study was to identify the relationship of physical activity (PA) and Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in patients suffering from low back pain (LBP).

    Authors: Andrea Schaller, Lea Dejonghe, Burkhard Haastert and Ingo Froboese
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:62
  47. Poor postoperative pain control is frequently associated with complications and delayed discharge from a hospital. Preemptive analgesia is one of the methods suggested for reducing postoperative pain. Opioids ...

    Authors: Koopong Siribumrungwong, Julin Cheewakidakarn, Boonsin Tangtrakulwanich and Sasikaan Nimmaanrat
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:59

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