Osteoarthritis and Bone Disorders News

Erosive hand osteoarthritis tends to target older adults and women with preexisting OA, and is associated with severe articular structural damage and radiographic progression, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

WAILEA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2021, Jack M. Bert, MD, spoke about the use of biologics in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis.

Once-daily atorvastatin 40 mg fails to significantly reduce cartilage loss over 2 years in patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis, compared with placebo, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

In this video exclusive, Miguel Regueiro, MD, discussed a presentation from Digestive Disease Week on the impact of biologics on the prevalence of osteoporosis and bone fractures in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Findings from the Live Yes! INSIGHTS survey from the Arthritis Foundation showed that out of some 40,000 patient responses, 100% reported experiencing some kind of pain within the last 7 days.

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.