OBJECTIVES To explore whether hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has a protective role for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hand and knee in a cross sectional study of women in the general population. METHODS 1003 women aged 45-64 (mean age 54.2) from the Chingford Study were asked details of HRT use. Standard anteroposterior radiographs of hands, knees were taken and scored according to the methods...

The effectiveness of current rehabilitation programs is supported by high-level evidence from the results of randomized controlled trials, but an increasing number of patients are not discharged from the hospital because of the schedule of the critical path (CP). The present study aimed to determine which factors can be used to assess the effectiveness of early rehabilitation. We enrolled 123 p...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the incidence of radiographic osteoarthritis in the operated knee in comparison with the contralateral knee ten years after a bone-tendon bone patellar autograft ACL-reconstruction and to evaluate to which level patients regain activity ten years after reconstruction. METHODS Fifty-three patients with ACL instability were operated arthrosc...

BACKGROUND Adipokines are related to knee osteoarthritis, but their exact role is not well known. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between adipokines in synovial fluid and clinical severity in patients with knee osteoarthritis with joint effusion. METHODS Cross-sectional study with systematic inclusion of female patients with symptomatic primary knee osteoarthritis with u...

Gonarthrosis in the relatively young and active population causes major daily discomfort and disability. If the arthritic process is mainly limited to the medial compartment, the axis of a varus knee can be realigned laterally with high tibial osteotomy to unload the medial compartment and allow some cartilage regeneration and pain relief. This study describes the outcomes of patients who under...

Osteoarthritis is the most common joint disorder, with a prevalence that increases with age. In 80 year old women radiologically defined osteoarthritis is found in over 70% in the distal interphalangeal joints (DIP) and in approximately 50% in the knees.' Osteoarthritis is characterised by pain on movement, and the pathophysiological processes can be visualised radiologically. Radiographic find...

BACKGROUND Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis affecting the elderly. Understanding the risk factors for knee OA has been derived from cross sectional studies. There have been few longitudinal studies of risk factors for knee OA among Asian populations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the risk factors for knee OA in elderly Korean community residents. METHO...

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the roles diabetes mellitus (DM) on quality life, function knee, and muscle strength in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA).
 Material Method: This single-center, case-control prospectively enrolled outpatients OA visiting a physical therapy rehabilitation clinic. were grouped according presence DM diagnosis. Demographic data, disease du...