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  1. The biological mechanisms involved in non-contact musculoskeletal soft tissue injuries (NCMSTI) are poorly understood. Genetic risk factors may be associated with susceptibility to injuries, and may exert mark...

    Authors: Ricard Pruna, Rosa Artells, Jordi Ribas, Bruno Montoro, Francesc Cos, Carme Muñoz, Gil Rodas and Nicola Maffulli
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:221
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  2. Anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) followed by pedicle screw fixation (PSF) is used to restore the height of the intervertebral disc and provide stability. Recently, stand-alone interbody cage with anteri...

    Authors: Kyung-Chul Choi, Kyeong-Sik Ryu, Sang-Ho Lee, Yeong Hyeon Kim, Sung Jae Lee and Chun-Kun Park
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:220
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  3. Knee osteoarthritis (kOA) risk is increased by obesity and physical activities (PA) which mechanically stress the joint. We examined the associations of midlife kOA with body mass index (BMI) and activity expo...

    Authors: Kathryn R Martin, Diana Kuh, Tamara B Harris, Jack M Guralnik, David Coggon and Andrew K Wills
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:219
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  4. Earlier studies have found a positive effect of alcohol consumption, with a reduced disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The aim of this study was to assess alcohol consumption and its association wi...

    Authors: Stefan Bergman, Sofia Symeonidou, Maria L Andersson and Maria K Söderlin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:218
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  5. Although percutaneous posterior-ring tension-band metallic plate and percutaneous iliosacral screws are used to fix unstable posterior pelvic ring fractures, the biomechanical stability and compatibility of bo...

    Authors: Hongwei Chen, Lijun Wu, Rongmei Zheng, Yan Liu, Yang Li and Zihai Ding
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:217
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  6. Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) is a major mediator of local inflammation present in injured joints. In this study, we aimed at comparing the effect of IL-1β on engineered tissues from MCs, BMSCs and co-cultured MCs an...

    Authors: Anika Chowdhury, Louis W Bezuidenhout, Aillette Mulet-Sierra, Nadr M Jomha and Adetola B Adesida
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:216
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  7. Muscle morphology, age and gender may be determinants of muscle strength in older adults. However, very few research studies have directly examined such correlation in the ageing spine. The aim of the study wa...

    Authors: Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Martin Bailey and Raymond Lee
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:215
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  8. The progressive nature of knee osteoarthritis (OA) leads to not only to physical but also to psychosocial decline; this aspect can influence knee pain experience, manifestations and inevitably diagnostic accur...

    Authors: Duarte Pereira, Milton Severo, Henrique Barros, Jaime Branco, Rui A Santos and Elisabete Ramos
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:214
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  9. Among blue-collar workers, high physical work demands are generally considered to be the main cause of musculoskeletal pain and work disability. However, current available research on this topic has been criti...

    Authors: Marie Birk Jørgensen, Mette Korshøj, Julie Lagersted-Olsen, Morten Villumsen, Ole Steen Mortensen, Jørgen Skotte, Karen Søgaard, Pascal Madeleine, Birthe Lykke Thomsen and Andreas Holtermann
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:213
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  10. Symptomatic external snapping hip is a painful condition, where pain in the trochantor region and limitations of daily activity dominate clinical findings. The aetiology of symptomatic external snapping hip is...

    Authors: Julie S Jacobsen, Uwe G Kersting, Michael S Rathleff, Ole Simonsen, Kjeld Søballe and Michael Ulrich
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:212
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  11. The aim of the present study was to compare one-year-follow-up data on disability and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) between spinal fusion patients and age- and sex-matched general population.

    Authors: Liisa Pekkanen, Marko H Neva, Hannu Kautiainen, Joost Dekker, Kirsi Piitulainen, Marko Wahlman and Arja Häkkinen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:211
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  12. Little is known about the impact of the reason for revision total hip arthroplasty (THA) on the outcomes following revision THA. In this study, our objective was to assess the association of operative diagnosi...

    Authors: Jasvinder A Singh and David G Lewallen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:210
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  13. The purpose of the study was to understand the function and expression of ATF2 by JNK and p38 signal pathways in the chondrocytes apoptosis of articular cartilage of the Kashin-Beck disease (KBD).

    Authors: Jing Han, Xiong Guo, Wuhong Tan, Feng Zhang, Jiangtao Liu, Weizhuo Wang, Peng Xu and Mikko J Lammi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:209
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  14. Muscle loss and fat gain contribute to the disability, pain, and morbidity associated with knee osteoarthritis (OA), and thigh muscle weakness is an independent and modifiable risk factor for it. However, whil...

    Authors: Stephen P Messier, Shannon L Mihalko, Daniel P Beavers, Barbara J Nicklas, Paul DeVita, J Jeffery Carr, David J Hunter, Jeff D Williamson, Kim L Bennell, Ali Guermazi, Mary Lyles and Richard F Loeser
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:208
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  15. Osteoporotic hip fractures with a significant morbidity and excess mortality among the elderly have imposed huge health and economic burdens on societies worldwide. In this age- and sex-matched case control st...

    Authors: Wo-Jan Tseng, Li-Wei Hung, Jiann-Shing Shieh, Maysam F Abbod and Jinn Lin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:207
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  16. Clinical examination of patients with chronic lumbar radiculopathy aims to clarify whether there is nerve root impingement. The aims of this study were to investigate the association between findings at clinic...

    Authors: Trond Iversen, Tore K Solberg, Bertil Romner, Tom Wilsgaard, Øystein Nygaard, Knut Waterloo, Jens Ivar Brox and Tor Ingebrigtsen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:206
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  17. Not only joint destruction but also muscle wasting due to rheumatoid cachexia has been problem in terms of quality of life of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In the present study, we performed histopa...

    Authors: Naoto Horai, Takaharu Nagaoka, Itsuro Higuchi, Hayato Kasai, Takako Yoshioka, Yoshihisa Umekita, Koichiro Fukuzaki, Ryoichi Nagata, Atsuro Miyata and Kazuhiro Abeyama
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:205
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  18. Back extension exercises are often used in the rehabilitation of low back pain. However, at present it is not clear how the posterior muscles are recruited during different types of extension exercises. Theref...

    Authors: Eline MD De Ridder, Jessica O Van Oosterwijck, Andry Vleeming, Guy G Vanderstraeten and Lieven A Danneels
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:204
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  19. People suffering from musculoskeletal shoulder pain are frequently referred to physiotherapy. Physiotherapy generally involves a multimodal approach to management that may include; exercise, manual therapy and...

    Authors: Rachel Chester, Lee Shepstone, Helena Daniell, David Sweeting, Jeremy Lewis and Christina Jerosch-Herold
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:203
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  20. The use of Computer Assisted Surgery (CAS) for knee replacements is intended to improve the alignment of knee prostheses in order to reduce the number of revision operations. Is the cost effectiveness of compu...

    Authors: Øystein Gøthesen, James Slover, Leif Havelin, Jan Erik Askildsen, Henrik Malchau and Ove Furnes
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:202
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  21. Knowledge about the prevalence and consequences of osteoarthritis (OA) in the Norwegian population is limited. This study has been designed to gain a greater understanding of musculoskeletal pain in the genera...

    Authors: Nina ØsterÃ¥s, May Arna Risberg, Tore K Kvien, Lars Engebretsen, Lars Nordsletten, Dag Bruusgaard, Unni-Berit Schjervheim, Ida K Haugen, Hilde Berner Hammer, Sella Provan, Britt Elin Øiestad, Anne Grete Semb, Silvia Rollefstad, KÃ¥re Birger Hagen, Till Uhlig, Barbara Slatkowsky-Christensen…
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:201
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  22. Reproducible and suitable animal models are required for in vivo experiments to investigate new biodegradable and osteoinductive biomaterials for augmentation of bones at risk for osteoporotic fractures. Sheep ha...

    Authors: Karina Klein, Enrico Zamparo, Peter W Kronen, Katharina Kämpf, Mariano Makara, Thomas Steffen and Brigitte von Rechenberg
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:200
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  23. The Forkhead/Fox transcription factor Foxc2 is a critical regulator of osteogenesis and angiogenesis of cells. Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) have the capacity to differentiate into osteoblasts, ch...

    Authors: Wulin You, Hongwei Gao, Lihong Fan, Dapeng Duan, Chunsheng Wang and Kunzheng Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:199
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  24. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the gold standard for detailed visualisation of spinal pathological and degenerative processes, but the prevailing view is that such imaging findings have little or no clini...

    Authors: Rikke K Jensen, Tue S Jensen, Per Kjaer and Peter Kent
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:198
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  25. Osteoporosis is a skeletal disease leading to an increased risk of bone fracture. Using a mouse osteoporosis model induced by administration of a receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand (RANKL), sa...

    Authors: Hiroki Yokota, Kazunori Hamamura, Andy Chen, Todd R Dodge, Nancy Tanjung, Aysan Abedinpoor and Ping Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:197
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  26. Although insomnia is common in patients with low back pain (LBP), it is unknown whether commonly used self-report sleep measures are sufficiently accurate to screen for insomnia in the LBP population. This stu...

    Authors: Saad M Alsaadi, James H McAuley, Julia M Hush, Delwyn J Bartlett, Nicholas Henschke, Ronald R Grunstein and Chris G Maher
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:196
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  27. Low back pain is an important public health problem that is associated with poor quality of life and disability. Among the electrophysical treatments, interferential current (IFC) has not been studied in patie...

    Authors: Juliana Barbosa Corrêa, Leonardo Oliveira Pena Costa, Naiane Teixeira Bastos de Oliveira, Kathleen A Sluka and Richard Eloin Liebano
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:195
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  28. Bicompartmental or unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (BKA, UKA) is currently advocated as an alternative solution to conventional total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in order to preserve bone stock and ligaments fo...

    Authors: Eiko Yamabe, Teruko Ueno, Ryo Miyagi, Atsuya Watanabe, Christine Guenzi and Hiroshi Yoshioka
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:194
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  29. Culturing of the sonication fluid of removed implants has proven to be more sensitive than conventional periprosthetic tissue culture for the microbiological diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection. Since bact...

    Authors: Massimo Mariconda, Tiziana Ascione, Giovanni Balato, Renato Rotondo, Francesco Smeraglia, Giovan Giuseppe Costa and Marco Conte
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:193
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  30. Shoulder pain affects all ages, with a lifetime prevalence of one in three. The most effective treatment is not known. Physiotherapy is often recommended as the first choice of treatment. At present, it is not...

    Authors: Rachel Chester, Lee Shepstone, Jeremy S Lewis and Christina Jerosch-Herold
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:192
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  31. The Dynesys system provides stability for destabilized spines while preserving segmental motion. However, clinical studies have demonstrated that the Dynesys system does not prevent adjacent segment disease. M...

    Authors: Shih-Liang Shih, Chien-Lin Liu, Li-Ying Huang, Chang-Hung Huang and Chen-Sheng Chen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:191
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  32. The human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-B27 gene is considered to be a major gene associated with predisposition to ankylosing spondylitis (AS); however, studies have demonstrated that non-HLA-B27 genes also contrib...

    Authors: Bang-ping Qian, Jun Jiang, Ming-liang Ji, Bin Wang, Yang Yu and Yong Qiu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:190
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  33. In the anatomic double-bundle ACL reconstruction, 2 femoral tunnel positions are particularly critical to obtain better clinical results. Recently, a few studies have reported quantitative identification metho...

    Authors: Shuken Kai, Eiji Kondo, Nobuto Kitamura, Yasuyuki Kawaguchi, Masayuki Inoue, Andrew A Amis and Kazunori Yasuda
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:189
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  35. Osteomyelitis is a severe and often debilitating disease characterized by inflammatory destruction of bone. Despite treatment, chronic infection often develops which is associated with increased rates of treat...

    Authors: Carlos J Sanchez Jr, Catherine L Ward, Desiree R Romano, Brady J Hurtgen, Sharanda K Hardy, Ronald L Woodbury, Alex V Trevino, Christopher R Rathbone and Joseph C Wenke
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:187
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  36. The ulnar styloid is an important supportive structure for the triangular fibrocartilage complex. However, it remains inconclusive whether or not a fractured ulnar styloid should be fixed in an unstable distal...

    Authors: Yi-xin Chen, Xin Zheng, Hong-fei Shi, Yu-fan Wangyang, Han Yuan, Xiao-xiao Xie, Dong-ya Li, Chang-jun Wang and Xu-sheng Qiu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:186
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  37. Back pain in children is common and early onset of back pain has been shown to increase the risk of back pain significantly in adulthood. Consequently, preventive efforts must be targeted the young population ...

    Authors: Henrik Hein Lauridsen and Lise Hestbaek
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:185
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  38. Back pain is a major public health problem due to its high frequency, to the resulting activity constraint, and the need for surgery in many cases. Back pain is more frequent in women than men, mainly in postm...

    Authors: Ariane Viana de Souza e Silva, Paulo Gustavo Sampaio Lacativa, Luis Augusto Tavares Russo, Luiz Henrique de Gregório, Renata Alexandra Calixto Pinheiro and Lizanka Paola Figueiredo Marinheiro
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:184
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  39. The Foot and Ankle Outcome Score (FAOS) is a patient-reported questionnaire measuring symptoms and functional limitations of the foot and ankle. Aim is to translate and culturally adapt the Dutch version of th...

    Authors: Inge van den Akker-Scheek, Arnoud Seldentuis, Inge HF Reininga and Martin Stevens
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:183
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  40. Several chronic pain populations have demonstrated decreased conditioned pain modulation (CPM). However there is still a need to investigate the stability of CPM paradigms before the measure can be recommended...

    Authors: Carolina Valencia, Lindsay L Kindler, Roger B Fillingim and Steven Z George
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:182
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  41. Medical record review (MRR) is one of the most commonly used research methods in clinical studies because it provides rich clinical detail. However, because MRR involves subjective interpretation of informatio...

    Authors: Michael Y Mi, Jamie E Collins, Vladislav Lerner, Elena Losina and Jeffrey N Katz
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:181
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  42. Functional Capacity (FC) is a multidimensional construct within the activity domain of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health framework (ICF). Functional capacity evaluations (F...

    Authors: Sandra E Lakke, Remko Soer, Jan HB Geertzen, Harriët Wittink, Rob KW Douma, Cees P van der Schans and Michiel F Reneman
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:180
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  43. Myofascial trigger points (MTrPs) are hyperirritable spots located in taut bands of muscle fibres. Electrophysiological studies indicate that abnormal electrical activity is detectable near MTrPs. This phenome...

    Authors: Marco Barbero, Corrado Cescon, Andrea Tettamanti, Vittorio Leggero, Fiona Macmillan, Fiona Coutts and Roberto Gatti
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:179
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  44. Health assessment measurements for patients with Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have to be meaningful, valid and relevant. A commonly used questionnaire for patients with RA is the Stanford Health Assessment Questi...

    Authors: Kristina Areskoug Josefsson, Charlotte Ekdahl, Ulf Jakobsson and Gunvor Gard
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:178
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  45. Little information exists on the presentation of symptomatic venous thromboembolism (VTE) in orthopaedic surgery when a defined protocol for thromboprophylaxis is used. The objective with this study was to est...

    Authors: Lasse J Lapidus, Sari Ponzer, Hans Pettersson and Edin de Bri
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:177
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  46. The recovery of gait ability is one of the primary goals for patients following total arthroplasty of lower-limb joints. The aim of this study was to objectively compare gait differences of patients after unil...

    Authors: Nicola C Casartelli, Julia F Item-Glatthorn, Mario Bizzini, Michael Leunig and Nicola A Maffiuletti
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:176
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  47. Widely used rod rotation and translation techniques for idiopathic scoliosis (IS) are effective in correcting spinal coronal deformity. Bilateral apical vertebral derotation technique by vertebral column manip...

    Authors: Lin Sun, Yueming Song, Limin Liu, Yonggang An, Chunguang Zhou and Zhongjie Zhou
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:175
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  48. We have developed crosslinked salmon-derived atelocollagen sponge, which has a denaturation temperature of 47 degrees Celsius. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the fundamental in vivo efficacy of the o...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Mori, Eiji Kondo, Yasuyuki Kawaguchi, Nobuto Kitamura, Nobuhiro Nagai, Hirokazu Iida and Kazunori Yasuda
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:174
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