BACKGROUND Recent international guidelines recommend intra-articular corticosteroid injections for patients with hip osteoarthritis who have moderate to severe pain and do not respond satisfactorily to oral analgesic/anti-inflammatory agents. Of the five available randomized controlled trials, four showed positive effects with respect to pain reduction. However, intra-articular injection in the...

A recent study investigated the therapeutic response of dogs afflicted by hip osteoarthritis when evaluating therapeutic modalities compared to a negative (placebo) control group. Authors suggested a placebo effect based on peak vertical force measurement. In addition, small effect size for each of the tested therapeutics as well as the extremely large sample size needed (>450) to discern thera...

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...