Some complications are more common when total knee replacement surgery is done as an outpatient or same-day procedure, reports a study in the December...
Orthopaedics
Ultrasound in Diagnosis of Low Back Pain
Dr. Pedram Heidari and associates conducted a Review of the Literature for ascertaining Role of Ultrasound in Diagnosis of the Causes of Low Back Pai...
Rheumatoid arthritis during pregnancy increases RA risk in children
New research reveals that children born to women with rheumatoid arthritis face an increased susceptibility to certain chronic diseases. The findings,...
Arthroscopy not found beneficial in subacromial shoulder pain
Arthroscopic Subacromial Decompression Doesn’t Relieve Pain is finding of a new study , since at 6 months, shoulder pain outcomes were similar a...
Screening could catch a quarter of hip fractures before they happen
Community screening for osteoporosis could prevent more than a quarter of hip fractures in older women – according to new research led by the Un...
FDA Safety alert for Product Marketed for Osteoarthritis
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended that Limbrel, a capsule marketed to “manage the metabolic processes associated with osteoar...
Spinal cord injury affects the heart
Spinal cord injury affects the heart, that’s what research published in Experimental Physiology and carried out by researchers from the Universi...
Gabapentinoids not found suitable for treating long-term low back pain
In a Meta-analysis of eight published trials in unselected patients, Dr. Harsha Shanthanna and associates evaluated the role of gabapentinoids in adul...
Obese have less risk of death
Researchers call it the obesity paradox: the phenomenon, observed in studies of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other chronic conditions, ...
Hip steroid injections associated with risky bone changes
Osteoarthritis patients who received a steroid injection in the hip had a significantly greater incidence of bone death and collapse compared with con...
