The development of disease-modifying drugs for patients with osteoarthritis (OA) has been hampered somewhat by difficulties associated with the accurate assessment of therapy responses in clinical ...

Physical and behavioral interventions have been shown to improve symptoms of advanced knee osteoarthritis ... relatively low at baseline with little scope for improvement. Although the results ...

Arthroscopy provides ... we can get into the knee, we can trim out loose tissue, we can remove torn edges of the meniscus, we can smooth cartilage, we can treat arthritis, we can remove loose ...

medportal.ca We make a strong recommendation against the use of arthroscopy in nearly all patients with degenerative knee disease, based on linked systematic reviews; further research is unlikely to ...

Knee arthroscopy is associated with harms. Taken together, these findings do not support the practise of arthroscopic surgery for middle aged or older patients with knee pain with or without signs of ...

"US [ultrasonography] is a valuable and accessible modality for assessment of KOA [knee osteoarthritis] features in clinical and research settings, including those with limited resources," the ...

People with knee osteoarthritis commonly undergo two types of surgery: knee arthroscopy and knee replacement. Knee ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether platelet-rich plasma therapy for early knee osteoarthritis is associated with good clinical outcomes and a change in magnetic resonance imaging ...