Osteoarthritis and Bone Disorders News

Patients who received automated text messages that encouraged exercise adherence reported improvements in their knee osteoarthritis pain at 24 weeks, according to results from randomized clinical trial.

Lower education is associated with higher all-cause and cause-specific mortality, as well as a greater burden of cardiovascular diseases, in patients with osteoarthritis, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Published results showed a single intra-articular injection of microfat with or without platelet-rich plasma may be safe and offer significant clinical improvement among patients with knee osteoarthritis.

The COVID-19 pandemic served to drive the creation and uptake of novel online osteoarthritis management programs, according to a speaker at the 2021 OARSI World Congress virtual meeting.

The placebo effect on pain scores in osteoarthritis may be attributed to a phenomenon called “regression to the mean,” according to a speaker at the 2021 OARSI World Congress.

The severity and cost of work-related musculoskeletal disorders among Ohio construction workers from 2007 to 2017 increased with age, peaking in those aged 55 to 64 years, according to data published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Two dosing regimens of tanezumab yielded comparable outcomes in pain and function as NSAIDs across a number of osteoarthritis patient subgroups, according to a speaker at the 2021 OARSI World Congress virtual meeting.

This year’s iteration of the Great Debate at the OARSI 2021 World Congress centered on the role of nerves in pain, functionality and pathogenesis of osteoarthritis.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced the rheumatology community to adopt a number of telehealth and digital approaches in patient care, according to a speaker at the 2021 OARSI World Congress virtual meeting.

Intra-articular injections of mesenchymal stem cells into the synovium may yield expression of a number of genes that inhibit progression of osteoarthritis, according to a speaker at the 2021 OARSI World Congress virtual meeting.