Osteoarthritis 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
• ACP-IM 2022 'Where Does It Hurt?': Primary Care Tips for Common Ortho Problems Musculoskeletal pain is one of the most common problems seen in primary care; in a presentation at the annual ACP meeting, an expert offered pointers on assessment and treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 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
• Women in Rheumatology: A Look Back, a Look Forward This article takes a look at women's impact on the specialty in research, education, patient care, and leadership, as well as the evolving challenges they face.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2022
• OARSI 2022 Inadequate Pain Relief in OA, High Opioid Use Before TKA Rates of inadequate pain relief in knee and hip OA, and high opioid use before total knee replacement surgery were reported in separate studies at the OARSI 2022 World Congress.
  Medscape Medical News, April 20, 2022
• OARSI 2022 Weight Gain May Exacerbate Structural Damage in Knee OA Although there have been various studies looking at weight loss and weight gain in OA, most have focused on weight loss rather than gain.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2022
• OARSI 2022 High Comorbidity Rate Seen Before Osteoarthritis Diagnosis Since this was an explorative study, the results are "very interesting starting points for future research," said one of the investigators.
  Medscape Medical News, April 13, 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
• AAOS 2022 Medical Cannabis May Cut Opioid Use for Back Pain, OA Preliminary data suggest more than one third of people with back pain no longer used opioids after filling cannabis prescriptions. Opioid prescriptions decreased as well for those with osteoarthritis.
  Medscape Medical News, March 28, 2022
• AAOS 2022 Shoulder Arthritis Surgery: Depression Complicates Care Screening and follow-up for depression may help improve outcomes and reduce costs when patients have reverse shoulder arthroplasty for osteoarthritis, a study suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, March 24, 2022
• AAOS 2022 TKA Outcomes for Age 80+ Similar to Younger Patients In a study of more than 1.7 million cases, length of hospital stay and readmission rates were only slightly higher for octogenarians than for those ages 65-79, and medical complications were similar.
  Medscape Medical News, March 24, 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
• RWCS 2022 Rheumatology Patients Seek Guidance on CBD, Cannabis Products Orrin Troum, MD, suggests putting away any personal biases to learn how to best advise patients who are using or considering using cannabis, cannabidiol, or other cannabis-derived products.
  Medscape Medical News, February 25, 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
• Latest ACR COVID Vax Guide Addresses Supplemental, Booster Doses A fifth update to the American College of Rheumatology's guidelines makes new recommendations on supplemental and booster doses in patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases.
  Medscape Medical News, February 04, 2022
• Health Issues in Women Midlife Linked With Health Decline at 65 Having specific health issues, including depressive symptoms and cardiovascular disease, as a middle-aged woman was associated with experiencing clinically important declines in health later in life.
  Medscape Medical News, January 11, 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
• Coronary Calcium Better Predictor of Need for Statin Than Equations A feasibility study shows coronary artery calcium scanning has the potential to better target patients who require statin therapy than the current standard of pooled cohort equations.
  Medscape Medical News, December 21, 2021