A number of patterns of osteoarthritis of the hip are described, though studies are conflicting with respect to the frequency of such patterns and their associations. Two hundred and eleven patients (133 women, 78 men; mean age 66 years, range 29-86) referred to hospital with osteoarthritis of the hip were studied. Involvement was unilateral in 108 (51%) and bilateral in 89 (42%); 14 (7%) had u...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether familial aggregation of osteoarthritis differs by joint site in a sibling pair study (GARP) of patients with osteoarthritis at multiple sites. SUBJECTS White Dutch probands aged 40 to 70 years and their siblings with primary osteoarthritis at multiple sites. METHODS The diagnosis of knee, hip, and spine osteoarthritis was based on a combination of pain or stiff...

introduction: low-level laser therapy (lllt) is thought to have analgesic and biomodulatory effects. our objective was to assess the pain-relieving effect of lllt and possible changes in joint stiffness and disability of patients with knee osteoarthritis (koa) and compare it to the more commonly used modality; therapeutic ultrasound(us). methods: 37 patients with mild or moderate koa were rando...

introduction: knee osteoarthrosis is one of the most debilitating diseases. prolotherapy includes intraarticular injection of various drugs to decrease inflammation. injection of intradiscal o2-o3 has reduced pain and disability of patients with low back pain due to prolapsed lumbar disk. objective: to compare the effect of intraarticular injection of ozone and steroids in improvement of clinic...

Volume 3 • Isse 2 • 1000134 arthroplasty, as a result of the association of atrophic osteoarthritis with low body mass and osteoporotic fractures [15]. Some other examinations have demonstrated that 25 percent of postmenopausal women scheduled for undergoing total hip arthroplasty had hidden osteoporosis [16]. It has been also shown that osteoporosis could elevate the progression of osteoarthri...

Osteoarthritis and falls are common conditions affecting older individuals which are associated with disability and escalating health expenditure. It has been widely assumed that osteoarthritis is an established risk factor for falls in older people. The relationship between osteoarthritis and falls has, quite surprisingly, not been adequately elucidated, and published reports have been conflic...

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Osteoarthritis, also known as degenerative joint disease, is the most common pathology. As a osteoarthritis can develop in any joint. Broad classification of includes two main types such primary and secondary osteoarthritis. Primary idiopathic origin, i.e. its cause unknown usually characterized by multiple damages. Secondary osteoarthritis, develops one Currently, there no uniform clinical man...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Chronic arthritis of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) involves weight-bearing joints and can occur in patients without a history of acute attack. Our aim was to investigate a possible causal relationship between FMF and osteoarthritis in a population in which FMF is quite common. METHODS Patients with late stage primary osteoarthritis were enrolled, and five MEFV gene mutati...