Rehabilitation News

Certain treatment modalities can keep middle-age and elderly athletes active and reduce the symptoms of knee osteoarthritis, according to a recent review.

While exercise increased the microvascular volume in patients with Achilles tendinopathy and healthy controls, the patients experienced significantly larger gains at measured time points, according to recent study results.

Researchers who analyzed veterans of the Iran-Iraq war who had hip disarticulation and a transpelvic amputation found better scores in the mental component of a Persian version of the SF-36 than in the physicial component at average 26-year follow-up.

In this study, researchers from Norway found that patient desires before and after total hip arthroplasty concerned improvements and participation in activities. They noted these desires remain the same in the first year after surgery.

Researchers from Denmark conducted a comparative cross-sectional study of patients with snapping hip and found the condition did not significantly impact gait pattern, according to results of this study.

Mayo Clinic and Athletes’ Performance have signed a letter of intent to collaborate in the advancement of proactive health and sports performance through research and development, integrated performance solutions, advanced diagnostics, access to leading specialists and the complete continuum of quality health and sports medicine care.

Australian researchers reviewed 20 clinical trials for various rehabilitation treatments after carpal tunnel syndrome surgery and found limited evidence to suggest their efficacy vs. placebo and other interventions.

A well-designed exercise program prescribed prior to referral for orthopedic surgery can play a key role in reducing waiting lists and lead to better selections of patients likely to benefit from surgery, according to a presenter at the EFORT Congress in Istanbul.

The cost of health care and lost production remain higher for men with traumatic arm and hand injuries during their first year after injury, despite improved work environments in recent decades, according to Swedish researchers.

A non-invasive biomechanical device placed on the foot of patients who underwent total hip arthroplasty improved gait velocity, step length and single limb support after 26 weeks of therapy, according to this study.