Weight loss is associated with reduced pain, improved function, and better quality of life in patients with knee OA who are overweight or obese. Osteoarthritis (OA), or degenerative joint disease, is ...

Ultrasonography (US)-identified features like osteophytes, effusion, meniscal extrusion, cartilage damage, calcium crystals, and popliteal cysts were associated with knee symptoms, radiographic knee ...

Tricompartmental osteoarthritis causes pain and damage due to the cartilage (cushioning) in a joint breaking down. This form of osteoarthritis occurs when there's damage in the three compartments of ...

The NHS will now advise people who have osteoarthritis to exercise to help ease pain and keep joints supple. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published new draft guidelines ...

A minimally invasive procedure may reduce symptoms of knee osteoarthritis, results of a German retrospective single-center study suggested. In patients with moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis that ...

2 Finnish Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopedics (FICEBO), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Objectives To assess the long-term effects of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) on the ...

Arthritis in general is defined as damage to cartilage, the connective tissue that cushions joints, explains Jeffrey Zarin, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute. “Think of ...

In a revolutionary discovery, scientists have identified a specific protein that, when blocked, allows the body to naturally ...

Delhi’s RML Hospital performed India’s first knee salvage surgery on a 30-year-old using the patient's own tendon and bone ...