Background. Patellofemoral osteoarthritis (PF OA) is a leading cause of significant pain and disability of the knee joint. Stair climbing dysfunction is commonly reported in this cohort. Objectives. To compare the temporal muscle activation between females with PF OA and healthy controls during stair ascent and decide whether there is a link between altered core activity and Patellofemoral oste...

Sandhigatavata is a disease with Shoola (pain), Shotha (swelling) and Hanti Sandhi Gatah (impairment of the functions joints). This can be correlated osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis degenerative arthritis. While any joint affected in osteoarthritis, knee most commonly affected. Vangasena Samhitha mentions Ksheera Vaitarana Vasti as treatment for Janu Sankocha (stiffness joint), Kati Prushta (swe...

BACKGROUND Osteoarthritis is a significant burden on personal health and for social cost, and its prevalence is rising. Recent research has revealed an association between osteoarthritis and cardiovascular disease, and this study uses the Framingham risk score (FRS), which is widely used as a composite index of cardiovascular risk factors, to investigate the association between osteoarthritis a...

BACKGROUND Joint pain is common in community-dwelling older adults. Osteoarthritis is the most likely cause and the most common diagnosis made in this age group by GPs. However, the level of agreement between patients and their GPs in this diagnosis is questionable and may have important implications for clinical care. OBJECTIVES Our aim was to determine the level of agreement between GP diag...

BACKGROUND Osteoarthritis is a chronic and costly condition affecting 14% of adults in the US, and has a significant impact on patient quality of life. This retrospective cohort study compared direct health care utilization and costs between patients with osteoarthritis and a matched control group without osteoarthritis. METHODS MarketScan(®) databases were used to identify adult patients wit...

Obesity is widely acknowledged as a risk factor for both the incidence and progression of osteoarthritis, and has a negative influence on outcomes. Loss of at least 10% of body weight, coupled with exercise, is recognized as a cornerstone in the management of obese patients with osteoarthritis, and can lead to significant improvement in symptoms, pain relief, physical function and health-relate...

OBJECTIVES Osteoarthritis is uncommon at the elbow in contemporary populations. We sought to determine whether this was also the case in medieval and premodern times. MATERIAL AND METHODS Standard criteria for osteoarthritis were applied to 496 complete elbows from a necropolis in Provence, France. RESULTS Osteoarthritis was found in 27% of elbows. Significant differences were noted across ...

background: knee osteoarthritis is one of the most common disabilities, which may lead to some limitations in physical activity. this study aimed to evaluation of grade one mobilization in improvement of physical function. methods: in this single blind clinical trial with a randomized sampling method, 30 patients of grade two or three, knee osteoarthritis were assigned into three groups: group ...

Osteoarthritis is a common hip joint disease, involving loss of articular cartilage. The prevalence and prognosis of hip osteoarthritis have been difficult to determine, with various clinical and radiological methods used to derive epidemiological estimates exhibiting significant heterogeneity. MRI-based methods directly visualise hip joint cartilage, and offer potential to more reliably define...

AIM The aim of this study was to describe the distribution of demographic factors and socioeconomic characteristics among primary health care users diagnosed with osteoarthritis in Albania, a transitional country in the Western Balkans. METHODS This study included all individuals diagnosed with osteoarthritis during January 2013 - December 2014 in selected primary health care centers in Tiran...