Background: Administration of Chondroitin Sulfate for treatment osteoarthritis included types include systemic and parenteral therapies. The benefits local therapies between difference route is ambivalent. Objectives: To evaluate effectiveness safety (CS) by intramuscular concomitant (intramuscular intraarticular) administration in patients with knee (OA). Methods: In total 150 OA according ACR...

An intraarticular osteoid osteoma of the knee is uncommon, and its treatment is challenging. The authors present a case of arthroscopic excision of an intraarticular osteoid osteoma in the distal femur, which was accessible through the knee joint. After confirming the nidus of the osteoid osteoma by computed tomography, the lesion was completely removed arthroscopically. The patient reported co...

Objective: Toassesspatients' awareness andattitude towardsintra-articulartherapy.Todetermine the frequency of refusal among patients who were offered intra-articularsteroid injections and to identify variousreasons for this refusal. Method: This was a cross-sectional study done at Rheumatology CMH Lahore outpatient clinic from 1st June 31st July 2022. A total 204 16 years or above potential can...

BACKGROUND Although shoulder pain is a commonly encountered problem in primary care, there are few studies examining its presenting characteristics and clinical management in this setting. METHODS We performed secondary data analysis of 692 office visits for shoulder pain collected through the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (Survey years 1993-2000). Information on demographic charact...