Osteoarthritis and Bone Disorders News

Patients with arthritis experienced greater medical care expenditures and earnings losses compared to patients without arthritis, according to recently published results.

The animated activity questionnaire, a tool for assessing activity limitations with some aspects of both patient-reported outcome measure and performance-based tests, demonstrated good overall cross-cultural validity, according to recent findings.

An association exists between twins in the development of hallux valgus, but there is no indication that this association is the result of shared genetics, according to recently published findings.

Older men with incident radiographic-only vertebral fractures have more back pain — and may limit their usual physical activities as a result — compared with men without vertebral fractures, study data show.

According to a study in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, intra-articular corticosteroid injections effectively managed symptoms of knee osteoarthritis in the short-term.

Utilization of anti-osteoporosis therapies increased by 41% from 2001 to 2006 before steadily declining by 63% during the next 7 years, according to an analysis of Spanish registry data.

Calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease appears to be positively associated with increased odds of rheumatoid arthritis, hypomagnesemia and osteoporosis, according to findings.

The incidence of hip fracture is highest among white men and lowest among Asian men, with Asian men also experiencing lower 1-year mortality risk than white, Hispanic and black men, according to a retrospective database analysis.

In patients who have undergone total knee arthroplasty, both high-intensity and low-intensity rehabilitation protocols appear to be effective in improving strength and function, according to findings.

In the United Kingdom, there was an increased number of new clinical osteoarthritis cases. These cases continued to be imaged with plain radiography and were increasingly managed with opioid analgesic medications, according to recently published findings.