Knee News

SAN DIEGO — The key to developing effective therapies for the management of osteoarthritis may lie in appreciating neuroplasticity in patients with the disease, according to a speaker at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology West.

A significant complication following total joint arthroplasty, the reported incidence of periprosthetic joint infection ranges from 1% to 2% depending on the involved joint, according to the published literature.

PJI is a dreaded complication of primary and revision total joint arthroplasty, with an estimated incidence of 1% to 2% in primary arthroplasty and up to 10% in revision procedures.

In this blog, Victoria Tam, PA-S, discusses the etiology, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment of PJI. She includes a clinical case study to demonstrate how a prosthetic joint infection is diagnosed and managed.

Published results showed many total hip and knee arthroplasties are performed by low-volume surgeons more than 2 decades after the volume-outcome relationship was established for joint arthroplasty.

Socioeconomic disadvantages may explain a proportion of disparities in health care utilization parameters after primary total joint arthroplasty that were previously assumed to be driven by race, according to published results.

A 75-year-old man presented to the ED with left ankle pain after a low-speed fall off a motorcycle that resulted in a twisting injury to his left leg.

The delivery of health care is in turmoil. Uncertainty about how to provide the health care patients desire at an affordable price has led to efforts to disrupt the status quo.

A sensor-enabled tibial stem may successfully collect kinematic mobility data to be used for predictive value and better patient care after total knee arthroplasty, according to results.

Patients with type 2 diabetes who report regular metformin use demonstrate a potential slowing of knee osteoarthritis progression, according to data published in Scientific Reports.