Musculoskeletal Disorders
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Watchful Waiting Less Expensive, as Effective as Physical Therapy for Frozen Shoulder
Monitoring patients with shoulder adhesive capsulitis is as effective as and cheaper than PT, study says.
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Are There Benefits to Taking GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Before Joint Surgery?
Two new studies looked at the effects of the weight-loss drugs on rates of complications after hip replacement procedures. The results were mixed...
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Surgery Shows Longer-Term Benefits for Dupuytren Contracture
At 2 years, the success rate was maintained for surgery, but not for the other two invasive treatments.
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Proinflammatory Diet May Prompt Worse Pain Course in Knee OA
Energy-adjusted dietary inflammatory index scores were not associated with tibial cartilage volume loss or overall bone marrow loss.
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Night Bracing: A Good Alternative for Adolescent Scoliosis
Night bracing plus self-managed physical activity prevented curve progression of more than 6 degrees to a significantly greater extent than did...
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Do ‘Forever Chemicals’ Affect Bone Health in Youth?
Research suggests that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances may have deleterious effects on bone density and bone accrual over time.
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Bone Mineral Density Higher in Children Living Near Green Areas
Findings emphasize the need for urban investments in accessible green spaces as a strategy for fracture and osteoporosis...
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Corticosteroid Injections Don’t Move Blood Sugar for Most
Intra-articular corticosteroid injections pose a minimal risk of accelerating diabetes; the injections may temporarily raise glucose levels.
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia: A Single Disease Entity?
“The sum of these results does not support the hypothesis that ME/CFS and ME/CFS+FM are distinct entities, as currently defined.”
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Paget Disease of the Bone Progression Halted With Genetic Screening, Targeted Treatment
A single infusion of zoledronic acid substantially reduced existing bone lesions and biochemical markers of bone turnover over 7 years.
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Patients with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome report skin laxity, scarring
More clinician education is needed to manage skin comorbidities in genetic connective tissue disorder.