Lateral view of a left osteoarthritic knee. Credit: David A. Walsh and Joanne Stocks A new review by David A. Walsh and Joanne Stocks in theSeptember 2017 issue ofSLAS Discovery(formerly theJournal of Biomolecular Screening) explores evolving treatments and future therapies for osteoarthritis (OA)...
Osteoarthritis: New knee raises pain threshold.Patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA) are more sensitive to various pain stimuli, new data confirm, but the good news is that joint replacement can normalize the pain response. The study, by Thomas Graven-Nielsen and colleagues, published ...
In the United States, osteoarthritis is twice as common today than it was a century ago. Surgery is an option when conservative treatments fail. Over the decades surgeons have developed a number of minimally invasive approaches, such as removing loose cartilage, making holes to stimulate new growt...
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis and is among the top 10 conditions contributing to Years Lived with Disability—a measure reflecting the impact an illness has on quality of life before it resolves or leads to death. To date, no treatments are approved that slow diseas...
Current Situation of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Treatments for Knee Ostheoarthritis and Hypothesis for a New Protocol Based on Cryoconservation and Multipl... Osteoarthritis (OA) is a widespread degenerative joint disease. The knee arthroplasty has represented for about 40 years the main treatment opt...
Osteoarthritis of the knee can be a very disabling condition. Common treatments for arthritis of the knee includes anti-inflammatory medications, physical therapy,bracesand injections. Those treatments are often effective for many years before you need to consider knee replacement surgery. For some of...
Osteoarthritis, a disease that causes severe joint pain, affects more than 20 million people in the United States. Some drug treatments can help alleviate the pain, but there are no treatments that can reverse or slow the cartilage breakdown associated with the disease. ...
Validation of the foot and ankle outcome score for ankle ligament reconstruction. Foot Ankle Int. 2001;22:788–94. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Roos EM, Roos HP, Lohmander LS, Ekdahl C, Beynnon BD. Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome score (KOOS)--development of a self-...
Pain in osteoarthritis (OA) can be resistant to the medical and surgical treatments currently in use. Local denervation of the arthritic joint could offer a new approach to relieve OA pain, if the results of a new cryoneurolysis clinical trial are confirmed. This is a preview of subscription ...
osteoarthritis, improving pain, function and quality of life, however, a proportion of people are left with ongoingpain. To have developed an intervention which has been shown to make a difference for some of these people is really satisfying for our team and a great step forward in treatment...