Joint Disorders News

• Intra-articular Steroid/lidocaine Injection Improves Hip Arthritis Pain, Function A single injection into the hip of steroid and local anesthetic improved pain and function in patients with hip osteoarthritis in a randomized controlled trial, with most of the benefit seen early after treatment.
  Reuters Health Information, May 05, 2022
• BSR 2022 Using DEXA to Grade Hip OA Could Aid Diagnosis, Prognosis A novel semiautomated scoring system enables dual energy x-ray absorptiometry scans of the hip to be graded and provide useful clinical information.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2022
• OARSI 2022 OARSI Sets Sights on Classifying Early-Stage Knee Osteoarthritis "Early-stage knee OA classification criteria, we believe, are critically required," Gillian Hawker, MD, said at the OARSI 2022 World Congress.
  Medscape Medical News, April 26, 2022
• OARSI 2022 Wearable Sensors Reliable for Home Gait Assessment in Knee OA Remote use of wearable gait sensors appears reliable but yields results slightly different from those achieved in the laboratory, researchers from Boston University have found.
  Medscape Medical News, April 26, 2022
• AAOS 2022 Investigational CBD Product for Easing Pain After Shoulder Surgery The cannabidiol product effectively reduced pain after arthroscopic rotator-cuff repair with no safety concerns and high satisfaction from patients in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial.
  Reuters Health Information, March 28, 2022
• Prehabilitation May Not Improve Knee Replacement Results A new study casts doubt on the value of exercises and education prescribed before total knee replacement.
  Medscape Medical News, March 09, 2022
• Virtual Reality Fitness? 'Yeah, It's a Workout' "VR has provided people a new way to get active, while having a ton of fun. Especially for people who may have struggled to find a routine that worked for them in the past, that's powerful."
  WebMD Health News, February 24, 2022
• Shear Wave Elastography Predicts Unsuccessful Rotator Cuff Repair Patients with higher elasticity ratios of the supraspinatus muscle were more than 15 times as likely to have insufficient repair.
  Medscape Medical News, February 08, 2022
• Duloxetine Added to Usual Care Doesn't Improve Hip, Knee OA Pain The results of a small, randomized trial could not find any benefit of duloxetine over usual care in patients with chronic knee or hip OA pain that was not improved through use of NSAIDs or acetaminophen.
  Medscape Medical News, January 06, 2022
• RSNA 2021 Cooled RFA Treats Chronic Pain After Knee Replacement More than 10 months after the treatment, patients reported reduced knee pain and stiffness.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2021
• Telehealth Exercise and Diet Programs Curb Pain in Knee Osteoarthritis In patients with knee osteoarthritis, telehealth-delivered exercise and diet programs are superior to electronic health information for reducing pain and improving function, a randomized trial shows.
  Reuters Health Information, November 29, 2021
• Platelet-Rich Plasma Injections Show No Benefit in Knee OA Platelet-rich plasma injections for mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis (OA) show no improvements in pain, function, or cartilage structure, compared with placebo.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2021
• PT May Lower Risk of Long-Term Opioid Use After Knee Replacement When patients who have undergone total knee replacement also undergo physical therapy soon after, the likelihood of long-term opioid use after surgery may be reduced.
  Medscape Medical News, October 29, 2021
• Tramadol Linked to Higher Risk of Mortality Compared to Codeine Tramadol in widely used for noncancer pain but as compared with codeine, it was associated with a higher risk for adverse outcomes, including death.
  Medscape Medical News, October 19, 2021
• AAOS Updates Guidelines for Nonoperative Knee OA Treatment The updated recommendations factor in research updates from the last 10 years.
  Medscape Medical News, September 28, 2021
• AAOS 2021 Early Surgery for Shoulder Instability May Prevent Osteoarthritis Other factors, such as obesity, smoking, and manual labor, increase the risk for developing osteoarthritis.
  Medscape Medical News, September 10, 2021
• AAOS 2021 Emotional 'Grit' Related to Function After Rotator Cuff Surgery 'Grit,' a popular term for resilience, grinds its way into the orthopedic literature.
  Medscape Medical News, September 10, 2021
• AAOS 2021 Knee Arthroscopy Timing May Complicate Total Knee Arthroplasty Study results suggest that arthroplasty should be delayed at least 9 months following knee arthroscopy to avoid complications.
  Medscape Medical News, September 03, 2021
• AAOS 2021 Cannabis Use Tied to Poorer Outcomes of Total Hip, Knee Replacement Cannabis use before total knee or hip replacement is associated with increased medical and implant-related complications, according to new research presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
  Reuters Health Information, September 02, 2021
• AAOS 2021 Subacromial Spacer Balloon as Good as Partial Rotator Cuff Repair Release of study results comes on the heels of the FDA's approval.
  Medscape Medical News, September 01, 2021