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Found 51 result(s) FROM 1963 pages containing the term 'anterior cruciate ligament'.
Tuesday Feb 09, 2010
Minimally Invasive Hip Replacements Growing in Popularity
Orthopedic surgeons have developed techniques to make hip replacement operations less invasive, cutting down the length of time patients spend in the hospital and speeding up total recovery time...
Friday Oct 16, 2009
EMG Finds “High Risk” Zone for ACL Tears in Female Athletes
Reduced semitendinosus (ST) and elevated vastus lateralis (VL) activity increase the risk of ACL tear—and taking bits from the ST for ACL repair is probably a mistake...
Thursday Oct 08, 2009
Second Knee Surgery Common Among Young Patients
Young people who have surgery to repair a damaged ACL will likely need additional surgery in the future...
Tuesday Aug 25, 2009
First RCTs Cast Doubt on Vertebroplasty Gains
The first 2 randomized, placebo-controlled trials of vertebroplasty for osteoporotic fractures show no significant benefits for the procedure...
Thursday Jul 09, 2009
EULAR Reports Link High Glutamate to Fibromyalgia Pain
Two studies on glutamate in brains of fibromyalgia patients show abnormal levels of the neurotransmitter in areas related to pain perception and emotional processing...
Friday Apr 24, 2009
Knee Laxity Tied to Menstrual Cycle
Female athletes are 2 to 8 times more likely to injure their ACL ligaments than men, and 3 new studies say that knee joint laxity related to the menstrual cycle is to blame...
Monday Mar 16, 2009
Chondrolysis Seen With Local Anesthetic After Shoulder Surgery
Local anesthetic infused into the shoulder joint after arthroscopy can destroy shoulder cartilage...
Wednesday Feb 25, 2009
ACL Repairs Becoming More Common in Kids, Don't Shorten NFL Careers
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is becoming more common in school-age athletes and needs longer healing time than is sometimes allowed, but it need not jeopardize a professional sports career...
Tuesday Feb 24, 2009
New Program Prevents ACL Tears In High School Girls' Sports
A pilot program to prevent anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears among female high school athletes has been so successful that it will be expanded to over 11,000 high school athletes...
Friday Jan 23, 2009
Shoulder Pain Imaging: Arthrography Not Always Needed
Arthrography adds important information to 3-T conventional MRI only in a subset of shoulder pain cases...
Wednesday Dec 03, 2008
Data from KANON Patients Blow Hole in ACL Repair
Surgical reconstruction was not better than training alone for restoring muscle strength and function after ACL injury…
Friday Nov 07, 2008
Studies Confirm, Extend Uses of MRI in Spondyloarthropathies
Severe romanus lesions in patients with back pain who are younger than 51 are very specific for spondyloarthropathy, and an MRI of just the sacroiliac joint is generally enough to diagnose nonradiographic axial SpA, regardless of the location of the back pain...
Friday Aug 29, 2008
Ligaments Tie Together OA Pathology
Ligaments are emerging as the key to understanding why osteoarthritis develops in nontraumatized joints...
Thursday Aug 28, 2008
Mesoblast Reports Preclinical Study Shows Allogeneic Stem Cells in Ewes are Safe, Effective for Cervical Spine Fusion; Therapy May Receive Boost From US FDA’s Recent Alert of Life-Threatening Complications Associated With rhBMP in Cervical Spine Fusions
Mesoblast is currently in phase II clinical trials for fusion of the lumbar spine and, based on these new results, will extend its market opportunity to cover the entire spectrum of spinal fusion. Subject to FDA approval, Mesoblast's therapy will eliminate the need for autograft...
Tuesday Apr 29, 2008
Women Risk Bone Loss After Knee Surgery
Women who underwent surgery to repair a torn ACL suffered significant bone loss surrounding the knee…
Friday Mar 07, 2008
ACL Tears Should Be Repaired Within 12 Weeks of Injury
ACL reconstruction should be done within 12 weeks of injury to avoid irreparable meniscus damage...
Friday Mar 07, 2008
Sports Doctors Urge for More Injury Prevention in Women Athletes
Sex matters in sports injuries, and more attention to special problems of women athletes is needed...
Tuesday Feb 19, 2008
Big-Time Injury Strikes Little Players
An increasing number of child and adolescent athletes are being diagnosed with torn ACLs...
Tuesday Feb 05, 2008
MGH Center is a Pioneer in Knee Repair
Physicians at the Massachusetts General Hospital sports medicine center are experimenting with new techniques for joint reconstruction in athletes...
Thursday Jan 31, 2008
Alendronate Decreases TRACP 5b Activity in Osteoarthritic Bone
Bisphosphonates may reduce TRACP 5b activity in the intertrochanteric area of the femoral head, suggesting that they are most effective in areas of well-supplied bone...
Friday Jan 18, 2008
Third Study Finds No Gain to Bracing Knee After ACL Reconstruction
Functional knee braces are widely used for patients returning to sports or other activity following ACL reconstruction, but a randomized, controlled trial found that the costly braces are no better than neoprene sleeves—and probably no better than not bracing at all...
Monday Oct 29, 2007
Research Shows Why Fibromyalgia Patients Don't Find Relief From Opioids
Fibromyalgia patients have abnormal functioning in a brain receptor involved in response to opioids, which may explain why they may not receive pain relief from narcotics or may require unusually high doses...
Wednesday Sep 19, 2007
Anticytokine Shots May Aid Healing Following Knee Injuries
Shooting TNF inhibitors or IL-1 blockers directly into the joint may help promote healing following meniscal tears…McNulty AL, et al. Arthritis Rheum. 2007;56:doi:10.1002/art [Epub ahead of print].
Monday Sep 10, 2007
Jury Out on Whether Surgical Repair of ACL Tears Staves Off OA
Little convincing evidence supports surgical repair of the anterior cruciate ligament or meniscus as a way of preventing OA, but the problem may lie in the way the studies have been done, not in the surgery…Lohmander LS, et al. Am J Sports Med. 2007 Aug 29; doi: 10.1177/0363546507307396 [Epub ahead of print].
Thursday Aug 30, 2007
Medtronic Receives FDA Approval for First Artificial Disc for Use in the Cervical Spine in the US
Medtronic, Inc, announced that it has received US FDA approval to market the PRESTIGE® Cervical Disc, the first artificial disc commercially available in the US for use in cervical disc arthroplasty or cervical artificial disc replacement...
Monday Aug 27, 2007
Harkness Dance Medicine Head Urges Clinicians to Prepare for the "High School Musical 2" Generation
Musicals are back, dance classes are filled, clinicians are facing more dancers or former dancers with musculoskeletal problems, and dance medicine experts are urging clinicians to heed the beat of dancing feet...
Wednesday Jul 18, 2007
Brain Function Linked to "Noncontact" Knee Injuries
Differences in brain function may predispose athletes to ACL injury…Swanik CB, et al. Am J Sports Med. 2007;35:943-948.
Monday Jul 09, 2007
Zap Away Knee OA Pain With Pulsed Electrostimulation
Pulsed electrostimulation may be a safe and effective way to reduce pain and improve function in knee OA patients...
Tuesday May 08, 2007
2-Year Results Support Use of New Chondrocyte Graft to Repair Knee OA Damage
Two-year follow-up of a new 3-dimensional scaffold that permits grafting of autologous chondrocyte to repair knee cartilage defects show promising results in both knee OA and knee trauma, and the procedure can be done arthroscopically...
Thursday Apr 26, 2007
Balance Training May Help Reverse Frailty, Prevent Osteoporosis-Related Fractures
Balance training alone or in combination with strength, agility and jumping training can reduce the risk of falls and prevent frailty in women at risk of osteoporosis…
Monday Mar 05, 2007
New Study Suggests MRI Might Be Alternative to Radiographic JSW as Efficacy Measure for Osteoarthritis Drugs
Radiographic JSW remains the gold standard for assessing progression of knee OA in clinical trials, but new research suggests that MRI might be a reasonable alternative...
Thursday Feb 15, 2007
Experts at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Predict Clinically Useful Gene Therapy, Tissue Engineering Will Be Available "in 5 to 10 Years"
Presentations at the AAOS meeting include advances in both gene therapy and tissue-engineered products for cartilage, bone, and tendon repair...
Thursday Jan 11, 2007
New Study Challenges Role of Low Vitamin D in OA Worsening
Low vitamin D levels did not predict worsening of knee OA joint space narrowing or cartilage loss...
Wednesday Jan 03, 2007
The Change in (Chronic) Pain Is Plainly in the Brain
Patients with chronic lower back pain show imaging changes in the cingulate gyrus, postcentral gyrus, and prefrontal cortex...
Tuesday Nov 21, 2006
Study Helps Explain Why Smoking Slows Ligament and Bone Healing
Smoking cigarettes delays cartilage formation in healing bone fractures and slows type I collagen production and recruitment of cells linked to healing of torn ligaments…
Tuesday Nov 07, 2006
Study IDs Predictors of Poor Outcome in Enthesitis-Related Arthritis
Enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) patients tend to have worse outcomes than children with other subtypes of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Predictors of poor outcome include family history of related diseases, the presence of HLA-DRB1*08, the absence of a protective HLA subtype, and persistently elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)…
Thursday Oct 19, 2006
Conventional strength training program has little effect on knee OA progression
Conventional strength training exercises have little effect on progression of knee osteoarthritis... Mikesky AE, et al. Arthritis Care & Research 2006;55:690-693.
Tuesday Oct 03, 2006
FRISK Score Seen As Alternative to T- or Z-Score for Predicting Fracture Risk
The Fracture Risk (FRISK) Score was developed to predict fracture more accurately than bone mineral density alone, but questions have been raised about its clinical usefulness... Henry MJ, et al. Radiology. 2006:241:190-196.
Friday Sep 29, 2006
US Docs Question RCT of Meniscus Repair Arrow, Norwegians Persevere
Rigid, bioabsorbable internal tacks have become popular for repairing meniscus tears, but problems identified with longer follow-up are leading many US orthopedists to shift to suture-based approaches. The arrow will be compared with a newer suture-based system in a Norwegian randomized clinical trial... Gifstad T, et al. Am J Sports Med. 2006;14 September 2006 [Epub ahead of print].
Thursday Aug 24, 2006
Apparent Changes in Joint Space Often Due to Changes in the Meniscus
New research suggesting that alterations in the meniscus contribute a large proportion to variations in joint space narrowing (JSN) may have ramifications for how clinical trials of disease modifying osteoarthritis drugs are conducted... Hunter DJ, et al. Arthritis Rheum. 2006;54:2488-2495.
Friday Aug 18, 2006
OA Radiography Correlates Well with Knee Pain, New Study Shows
A new study of radiographic changes in patients with knee pain finds a consistent association between pain severity, stiffness, and physical function and the presence of radiographic osteoarthritis. .... Duncan R, et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 2006 July 28; [Epub ahead of print]
Thursday Aug 17, 2006
Early Diagnosis of AS: Dr. Rudwaleit Does the Math to Make It Easy
Diagnosing early ankylosing spondylitis in a patient with chronic back pain may be easier with a simple method based on standard tests and symptoms... Rudwaleit M, et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 2006;65:1251-1252.
Thursday Aug 10, 2006
Michigan Researchers to Study ACL Injuries, Bone Bruises, in Knee OA
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are common in young athletes and often lead to later knee osteoarthritis (OA). A new prospective study will try to determine whether bone bruises add to that risk.
Saturday Jun 24, 2006
New Imaging Methods Show Ligament Damage Is the First Stage of Hand OA
New, high-resolution MRI and PET imaging are bringing the details of hand OA into focus, and show that changes in ligaments are the first signs of disease... Tan AL. 2006 EULAR Meeting; June 21–24, 2006; Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Abstract SP0060.
Thursday May 25, 2006
Higher Strength MRI Reduces Need for Arthroscopy for Shoulder Injuries
MR imaging at 3.0 Tesla may be able to replace arthroscopy for diagnosing some types of shoulder cartilage damage... Magee TH, Willams DS. Presented at: American Roentgen Ray Society 106th Annual Meeting; April 30–May 5; Vancouver, BC. Abstract 52.
Thursday Aug 04, 2005
Scientists Develop New Technique to Grow Bone In Vivo
In a development that one day may revolutionize spinal and knee-replacement surgery and the treatment of osteoporosis, researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, have demonstrated for the first time that healthy new bone can be grown in one part of the body to repair bony defects at another location... Stevens MM, et al. In vivo engineering of organs: The bone bioreactor. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2005; scheduled to appear online before print. Available at: http://www.pnas.org/.
Thursday May 05, 2005
Presence of Parallel Neural Pain Pathways May Assist in the Management of Fibromyalgia Patients
New research among patients with fibromyalgia shows evidence of parallel, independent neural processing pathways for sensory and affective pain, a finding that may lead to better diagnosis, selection of therapeutic agents, and efficacy for the chronic pain and concomitant depression that accompany the condition... Giesecke T, et al. Arthritis Rheum. 2005;52:1577-1584.
Tuesday Apr 26, 2005
EMEA Approves New Spinal Fusion Indication for BMP-2
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Astellas Pharma Europe announced that dibotermin alfa/absorbable collagen sponge (rhBMP-2/ACS or InductOs®) received additional marketing authorization from the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA) for the treatment of single level (L4-S1) anterior lumbar spine fusions as a substitute for autogenous bone graft in adults who have had at least 6 months of nonoperative treatment for degenerative disc disease.
Monday Apr 25, 2005
Novel Osteoinductive Molecule May Speed Fracture Healing and Enhance Spinal Fusion
A newly discovered osteoinductive protein promises greater specificity than bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs)...UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science [press release]. April 21, 2005.
Monday Feb 28, 2005
New Minimally Invasive Knee Arthroplasty Techniques Present Promise, Challenges
Direct-to-consumer marketing has spurred patient demand for minimally invasive joint replacements, but widespread application of these procedures is limited by a lack of experienced surgeons and of data supporting their use... The 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; February 23-27, 2005; Washington, DC.
Friday Feb 25, 2005
The Future of Spinal Surgery: Artificial Discs and Bone Growth Factors Show Promise
PCM cervical discs, Charité lumbar discs, and BMPs demonstrate improved outcomes and greater patient satisfaction as alternatives to traditional spinal fusion surgery...72nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons; February 23, 2005.
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