Anterior knee pain and/or radiological evidence of degeneration of the patellofemoral joint are considered to be contraindications to unicompartmental knee replacement. The aim of this study was to determine whether this is the case. Between January 2000 and September 2003, in 100 knees (91 patients) in which Oxford unicompartmental knee replacements were undertaken for anteromedial osteoarthri...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Anterior knee pain (AKP) may compromise the results of total knee arthroplasty in more than quarter of cases. The aim of the current work was to determine the prevalence of AKP and the severity of patellofemoral symptoms among patients who received a total knee arthroplasty with non-replaced patella in East-Tallinn Central Hospital from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2...

  Background: Osteoarthritis is a disabling musculoskeletal disease with no definite treatment. This study compared the effect of Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) plus exercise in the treatment of patients with knee joint osteoarthritis.   Methods : 54 eligible patients with knee osteoarthritis were randomly allocated into two groups. (IRCT201211...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the influences of radiographic severity, quadriceps strength, knee pain, age, and gender on functional ability in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. METHODS Equal numbers of knee pain positive and negative respondents to a survey of registrants aged more than 55 years at a general practice were invited to attend for knee radiographs and quadriceps femoris isometr...

OBJECTIVES To examine the genetic contribution to common, apparently sporadic, radiographic knee chondrocalcinosis (CC) and pyrophosphate arthropathy (PA). METHOD (1). DESIGN radiographic sibling study. Comparison of the prevalences of knee CC and PA in siblings of index cases with PA with those in the community. (2). SUBJECTS 80 index cases with PA listed for total knee replacement; 122 ...

conclusions the accompanying case series suggests that this protocol is deserving of randomized, prospective study. results c-rfa of the genicular nerves after using the described selection protocol resulted in > 90% pain reduction, improved function and avoidance of surgery at 6 months in all four cases. all opioid and analgesic medication use decreased or was unchanged in all cases. no seriou...