OBJECTIVE Musculoskeletal US is being increasingly used for the assessment of synovitis, although questions remain about its reliability. One potential factor affecting reliability is the lack of consensus of image acquisition methods such as using different joint positions. This may have an implication on the reproducibility of studies that use US as an outcome measure. The aim of this study w...

The aim of this study was to determine whether differences exist between physiotherapists with work-related thumb pain and physiotherapists without thumb pain. Twenty-four physiotherapists with work-related thumb pain (Pain Group) and 20 physiotherapists without thumb or wrist pain (Non-pain Group), who were working at least 20 hours per week in an outpatient musculoskeletal setting, were compa...

5 Treatment of Dyslipidemia in Patients With Chronic Kidney Diseases A In 1972, the Mayo Clinic Department of Orthopedic Surgery opened a new frontier of diagnosis and treatment of wrist injury with the publication of a classic paper by Ronald L. Linscheid, MD, and James H. Dobyns, MD. In it, the investigators set forth a framework for understanding carpal instability that influenced many subse...

A case is presented of a 69 year old male patient with a history of wrist fracture from over 50 years ago with pain refractory to analgesics and with joint destruction of the wrist in conventional radiology. We have conducted a review of extrapulmonary tuberculous osteoarthritis discussing the diagnosis and treatment of this unusual presentation of the disease.

The wrist is the most commonly involved region of the upper extremity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Because the wrist joint becomes involved early during the disease course and its involvement rapidly progresses, and because the disabilities associated with progressive RA are significant, early and adequate treatment must be introduced to prevent disease progression. Various treatment methods c...