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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Benjamin Schultz Overgaard, Anders Bossel Holst Christensen, Lene Terslev, Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu, Søren Andreas Just
OBJECTIVE: To develop an artificial intelligence (AI) model able to perform both segmentation of hand joint ultrasound images for osteophytes, bone, and synovium and perform osteophyte severity scoring following the EULAR-OMERACT grading system (EOGS) for hand osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS: One hundred sixty patients with pain or reduced function of the hands were included. Ultrasound images of the metacarpophalangeal (MCP), proximal interphalangeal (PIP), distal interphalangeal (DIP), and first carpometacarpal (CMC1) joints were then manually segmented for bone, synovium and osteophytes and scored from 0 to 3 according to the EOGS for OA...
2024: Frontiers in Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chunran Pan, Fan Lu, Xiaoxia Hao, Xiaofeng Deng, Jiawei Liu, Kai Sun, Wenjie Hou, Xingru Shang, Ruimin Chi, Fengjing Guo, Tao Xu
BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the joint. As the disease progresses, patients will gradually develop symptoms such as pain, physical limitations and even disability. The risk factors for OA include genetics, gender, trauma, obesity, and age. Unfortunately, due to limited understanding of its pathological mechanism, there are currently no effective drugs or treatments to suspend the progression of osteoarthritis. In recent years, some studies found that low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) may have a positive effect on osteoarthritis...
March 16, 2024: Journal of Translational Medicine
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Samir Ghandour, Atta Taseh, Walter Sussman, Daniel Guss, Soheil Ashkani-Esfahani, Ashim Gupta, Gregory Waryasz
BACKGROUND: Intra-articular injections are commonly used to manage joint pathologies, including osteoarthritis. While conventional ultrasound (US) guidance has generally improved intra-articular injection accuracy, forefoot and midfoot joint interventions are still often performed without imaging guidance. This pilot study aims to evaluate the efficacy of office-based, portable ultrasound (P-US) guided intra-articular injections for forefoot and midfoot joint pain caused by various degenerative pathologies...
2024: Front Pain Res (Lausanne)
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REVIEW
Natalia Domańska-Kruppa, Małgorzata Wierzbicka, Elżbieta Stefanik
Back pain is common in ridden horses. Back diseases in horses include Impinging Dorsal Spinous Processes, Ventral Spondylosis, Osteoarthritis of Articular Process, Intervertebral Discs Disease, Vertebral Fractures, Conformational Abnormalities, Desmopathy of the Supraspinous Ligament, Desmopathy of the Intraspinous Ligament, and Longissimus Muscle Strain. Back pain may also develop as a result of lameness (particularly hindlimb lameness). A poorly fitting saddle and an unbalanced rider are also considered important factors influencing the development of back pain in horses...
February 23, 2024: Animals: An Open Access Journal From MDPI
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Christian T Schamberger, Tobias Grossner, Christian Fischer, Sebastian Findeisen, Thomas Ferbert, Arnold J Suda, Gerhard Schmidmaier, Stephan Stein
BACKGROUND: An increased or decreased critical shoulder angle (CSA) is a known risk factor for osteoarthritis, lesions, and re-ruptures in the rotator cuff. A CSA greater than 35° correlates with degenerative rotator cuff tears, while a CSA of less than 30° correlates with osteoarthritis in the glenohumeral joint. The diagnostic gold standard for its determination is X-ray or MRI. OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of this research was to assess the viability of utilizing sonography imaging as a diagnostic tool to determine the modified critical shoulder angle (mCSA)...
February 23, 2024: Diagnostics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rodrigo Correia, Luís Oliveira, Inês Andrade, Miguel de Castro Correia, Eugénio Gonçalves, Andre Borges, Tiago Lopes, José Luís Carvalho
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Hip osteoarthritis (OA) has a prevalence of 2.9% in Portugal and is a related cause of pain and disability. A sufficient number of patients report these symptoms even after total hip arthroplasty (THA), while others are contraindicated to such surgery and suffer from uncontrolled pain. Percutaneous denervation of hip nerve branches using radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has emerged as a powerful therapeutic avenue to consider for patients with chronic hip pain. METHODS: Between January 2020 and March 2021, 26 patients with chronic hip pain received ultrasound-guided RFA with a pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block technique adaptation...
February 2024: Curēus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sherif M Zaki, Dina S El Karsh, Tuleen M Faden, Leen T Almghamsi, Joud O Fathaldin, Omar A Alhazmi
REVIEW: A common chronic health problem among Saudi Arabians is diabetes mellitus (DM). One of the most serious complications of diabetes is diabetic foot (DMF). AIM: The objective of this study was to identify the most common complications that develop among patients with DMF. In addition, we conducted a demographic analysis of chronic diabetic complications related to DMF. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study involved 100 DMF attending the Jeddah clinic of Dr Soliman Fakeeh Hospital...
February 2024: Curēus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrea Di Matteo, Gianluca Smerilli, Stefano Di Donato, An Ran Liu, Andrea Becciolini, Federica Camarda, Tomas Cazenave, Edoardo Cipolletta, Davide Corradini, Juan José de Agustín, Giulia Maria Destro Castaniti, Eleonora Di Donato, Luca Di Geso, Emine Duran, Bayram Farisogullari, Marco Fornaro, Francesca Francioso, Pamela Giorgis, Amelia Granel, Cristina Hernández-Díaz, Rudolf Horvath, Jana Hurnakova, Diogo Jesus, Omer Karadag, Ling Li, Josefina Marin, María Victoria Martire, Xabier Michelena, Erica Moscioni, Laura Muntean, Matteo Piga, Marcos Rosemffet, João Rovisco, Didem Sahin, Fausto Salaffi, Liliana Saraiva, Crescenzio Scioscia, Maria-Magdalena Tamas, Shun Tanimura, Aliki Venetsanopoulou, Lucio Ventura-Rios, Orlando Villota, Catalina Villota-Eraso, Paraskevi V Voulgari, Gentiana Vukatana, Johana Zacariaz Hereter, Helena Marzo-Ortega, Walter Grassi, Emilio Filippucci
OBJECTIVES: To assess, in spondyloarthritis (SpA), the discriminative value of the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) ultrasound lesions of enthesitis and their associations with clinical features in this population. METHODS: In this multicentre study involving 20 rheumatology centres, clinical and ultrasound examinations of the lower limb large entheses were performed in 413 patients with SpA (axial SpA and psoriatic arthritis) and 282 disease controls (osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia)...
March 5, 2024: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yosuke Ishii, Masakazu Ishikawa, Noboru Shimada, Makoto Takahashi, Yoshitaka Iwamoto, Shota Date, Hiroshi Kurumadani, Goki Kamei, Toru Sunagawa, Nobuo Adachi
BACKGROUND: Medial meniscus extrusion (MME) is associated with knee osteoarthritis (OA) progression because of increased loading stress in the medial compartment of the knee. Using a lateral wedge insole (LWI) decreases loading stress and immediately reduces MME. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the wearing duration of LWI affects the midterm response to MME and is associated with knee OA progression. STUDY DESIGN: Cohort study. METHODS: Twenty-three patients with knee OA who were conservatively treated with LWI were classified according to the duration of the LWI wear per day: less than 5 h (short-duration group) or over 5 h (long-duration group)...
March 5, 2024: Prosthetics and Orthotics International
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Carmelo Pirri, Antonio Stecco, Carla Stecco, Levent Özçakar
BACKGROUND: Retinacula of the ankle are thickening of the deep fascia of the leg (crural fascia) and foot i.e. inseparable structures. Recent studies report their crucial role in functional stability and proprioception of the ankle. CASE PRESENTATION: A 38-yr-old Caucasian man - with a history of lateral malleolus fracture 12 years ago, obesity and right ankle osteoarthritis - was referred to a physiatrist for a right ankle pain that had significantly worsened over the last year...
January 2024: Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sevilay Şimşek Karaoğlu, Sinem Sari, Yusufcan Ekin, Yasemin Özkan, Osman Nuri Aydin
BACKGROUND: Chronic hip pain is one of the most common and difficult-to-treat causes of disability. Our study's primary aim was to investigate the effects of ultrasound and fluoroscopy-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation of the femoral and obturator nerve articular branches on chronic hip pain, and the secondary aim was to determine its effects on hip function and quality of life. METHODS: Fifty-three patients with hip pain lasting more than three months were enrolled in the study...
March 1, 2024: Pain Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alisa J Johnson, Sarah M Barron, Jennifer A Nichols, Yenisel Cruz-Almeida
OBJECTIVE: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of chronic pain in adults and shows wide interindividual variability, with peripheral and central factors contributing to the pain experience. Periarticular factors, such as muscle quality (eg, echo intensity [EI] and shear wave velocity [SWV]), may contribute to knee OA pain; however, the role of muscle quality in OA symptoms has yet to be fully established. METHODS: Twenty-six adults (age >50 years) meeting clinical criteria for knee OA were included in this cross-sectional study...
February 25, 2024: Arthritis & Rheumatology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
G K Sharma, A Patil, P Kaur, S Rajesh, Elena Drakonaki, Rajesh Botchu
PURPOSE: To assess whether Ultrasound guided dry needling is adequate for both common extensor tendon tears and tendinosis or whether ultrasound guided platelet rich plasma (PRP) has a superior outcome when compared to dry needling when there are tears of the common extensor tendon. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a single-centre, single-blinded, randomised controlled trial conducted between November 2018 and April 2020. 40 patients diagnosed with lateral epicondylitis based on clinical and sonographic features and having comparable baseline characteristics were randomly assigned to the two study groups (dry needling and PRP)...
February 23, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gianni Belcaro, Maria R Cesarone, Claudia Scipione, Valeria Scipione, Morio Hosoi, Shu Hu, Andrea Ledda, Beatrice Feragalli, Roberto Cotellese, David Cox
BACKGROUND: The aim of this registry study was to evaluate the progress of osteoarthrosis (OA) symptoms after the intake of a new standardized supplement combination (Pycnogenol® + Centellicum® , both Horphag Research) in a group of subjects with OA. METHODS: Supplemented subjects took daily 150 mg Pycnogenol® + 450 mg Centellicum® for 6 months. Another comparable group of subjects using only standard management (SM) was included as a reference...
February 2024: Minerva surgery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mustafa Karaoğlan, Bilge Küçükçay Karaoğlan
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the efficiency and tolerability of pericapsular nerve group block (PENG) for the treatment of chronic hip pain. METHODS: This is a retrospective, single-centre, 4-group study conducted over a 3-month period to find out the most typical cause of chronic hip pain. A total of 112 patients with symptomatic hip osteoarthritis (OA), Stage 2-3, greater trochanteric pain (GTPS) and chronic pain after total hip arthroplasty (cTHA), who had an ultrasound-guided PENG block, were selected...
February 21, 2024: Hip International: the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Research on Hip Pathology and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Samy Slimani, Amel Aissoug, Souhila Aouidane, Nacif Eddine Ghodbane, Aicha Ladjouze-Rezig
BACKGROUND: Intra-articular glucocorticoid injection (IAGI) is widely used for treatment of knee osteoarthritis (OA) flares. Response rates are generally around 70%. Several studies have tried to identify predictors of good response, but response to ultrasound (US)-guided injection has not yet been investigated. This study aimed to identify the predictors of response to IAGI performed under US guidance in patients with primary knee OA. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 116 patients (116 knees) presenting with unilateral or bilateral primary knee OA were enrolled for this prospective single-center study...
February 13, 2024: ARP Rheumatol
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ben Foxcroft, Gareth Stephens, Tim Woodhead, Colin Ayre
BACKGROUND: Cortico-Steroid Injections (CSI) are commonly used to treat patients with Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome (GTPS) but it is unclear which patients will experience improvements in pain. OBJECTIVES: To identify factors that influence improvements in pain for patients with GTPS treated with CSI. DESIGN: Systematic review. METHODS: A search was undertaken of AMED, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Medline and PEDro databases...
February 17, 2024: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarah Kate Eustace, John Hynes, Aisling O Byrne, Daire Hurley, Orla Murray, Stephen Eustace
OBJECTIVES: To describe the percutaneous image-guided treatment of mucoid degeneration of the ACL causing deep knee pain on flexion in patients with advanced knee osteoarthritis. METHODS: Five patients with mucoid degeneration of the ACL complicating knee osteoarthritis underwent percutaneous image-guided steroid bupivacaine ACL sleeve injections over a 3-year period. RESULTS: There were four males and one female of mean age 54 (range 48-59 years)...
February 13, 2024: Irish Journal of Medical Science
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Ho Xuan Tuan, Nguyen-Thi Huyen, Nguyen Duy Hung, Nguyen-Thi Hai Anh, Nguyen Minh Duc
Osteoarticular tuberculosis is less common than pulmonary tuberculosis and is often overlooked in the differential diagnosis of people with joint disease. In this article, we present a case of a 71-year-old female patient admitted to the hospital because of pain and limited movement of her right shoulder for a year. The patient had diabetes for 10 years, and no history of tuberculosis or previous history of tuberculosis exposure. Blood test results showed inflammatory condition and positive IGRA test. X-ray, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging images revealed osteolytic and sclerotic lesions of the humeral head, diffuse thickening of the synovial membrane, and loose bodies in the joint and bursa...
April 2024: Radiology Case Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shogo Okada, Masashi Taniguchi, Masahide Yagi, Yoshiki Motomura, Sayaka Okada, Kaede Nakazato, Yoshihiro Fukumoto, Masashi Kobayashi, Kyoseki Kanemitsu, Noriaki Ichihashi
This study determined whether the acute cartilage response, assessed by cartilage thickness and echo intensity, differs between patients with early-mild knee osteoarthritis (OA) and healthy controls. We recruited 56 women aged ≥ 50 years with Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) grade ≤ 2 (age, 70.6 ± 7.4 years; height, 153.7 ± 5.2 cm; weight, 51.9 ± 8.2 kg). Based on KL grades and knee symptoms, the participants were classified into control (KL ≤ 1, asymptomatic, n = 27) and early-mild knee OA groups (KL 1 and symptomatic, KL 2, n = 29)...
February 8, 2024: Annals of Biomedical Engineering
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