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  1. This study aimed to assess the impact of full endoscopic transforaminal discectomy (FETD) on clinical outcomes and complications in both obese and non-obese patients presenting with lumbar disc herniation (LDH).

    Authors: An-Ping Feng, Shang-Feng Yu, Chien-Min Chen, Li-Ru He, Shang-Wun Jhang and Guang-Xun Lin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:322
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  2. Increasing studies have shown degeneration of nucleus pulposus cells (NPCs) as an critical part of the progression of intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). However, there are relatively few studies on singl...

    Authors: Peigeng Wang, Zhencong Li and Dongping Ye
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:321
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  3. The precise influence of plate position on clinical outcomes in the context of volar fixed-angle plating for distal radius fractures is not fully understood. This article aims to investigate the influence of p...

    Authors: Abdulsamet Emet, Enejd Veizi, Yavuz Karaman, Erkan Akgun, Tolga Tolunay and Ahmet Firat
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:320
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  5. Non-contact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are a major concern in sport-related activities due to dynamic knee movements. There is a paucity of finite element (FE) studies that have accurately repli...

    Authors: Harish Rao, Ryan Bakker, Stewart McLachlin and Naveen Chandrashekar
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:318
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  6. The effects on bone mineral density (BMD)/fracture between type 1 (T1D) and type 2 (T2D) diabetes are unknown. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the causal relationship between the two types of diabetes and B...

    Authors: Yu-Dun Qu, Zhao-Hua Zhu, Jia-Xuan Li, Wei Zhang, Qi Chen, Chang-Liang Xia, Jun-Nan Ma, Shuan-Ji Ou, Yang Yang, Yong Qi and Chang-Peng Xu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:317
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  7. Chronic shoulder and neck pain is one of the most common chronic occupational disorders, with an average incidence rate of 48.5%, severely affecting patients’ quality of life and ability to work. According to ...

    Authors: Ansu Wang, Yufeng Zhou, Xuyan Li, Weiqun Wang, Xu Zhao, Ping Chen and Wenbo Liao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:316
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  8. We aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of bilateral decompression with minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) assisted by an ultrasonic bone curette (UBC) for treating severe ...

    Authors: Yuebing Ren, Ying Nian and Tongxin Sun
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:315
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  9. The role of lactate level in selecting the timing of definitive surgery for isolated extremity fracture remains unclear. Therefore, we aimed to elucidate the use of preoperative lactate level for predicting ea...

    Authors: Yusho Nishida, Ryo Yamamoto, Soichiro Ono and Junichi Sasaki
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:314
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  11. Hip offset, version, and length are interdependent femoral variables which determine stability and leg length. Balancing these competing variables remains a core challenge in hip arthroplasty. The potential be...

    Authors: David F. Scott, Kade Eppich, Edin Mehić, Celeste Gray, Crystal Lederhos Smith and Michael Johnston
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:312
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  12. Clinically, it has been found that patients undergoing knee replacement have a high incidence of concomitant hallux valgus. In this study, we analyzed whether patients with osteoarthritis who underwent surgery...

    Authors: Zhijun Li, Zhengxuan Liu, Wei Shi, Xinyu Liang, Chunlei Xu, Kai Zhang, Hui Li and Huafeng Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:311
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  13. Cases of bilateral hip fractures are rare, and even more so are cases of bilateral intertrochanteric fractures. Common causes include trauma, internal diseases, and primary or secondary bone diseases. We repor...

    Authors: Zhengjie Tang, Qingshu Wu, Pan Li and Xing Wei
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:310
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  14. Sarcopenia and multimorbidity are common in older adults, and most of the available clinical studies have focused on the relationship between specialist disorders and sarcopenia, whereas fewer studies have bee...

    Authors: Wenjing Xia, Kang Luo, Ziwei Gu, Jianping Hu, Xintong Liu and Qian Xiao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:309
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  15. In traditional surgical procedures, significant discrepancies are often observed between the pre-planned templated implant sizes and the actual sizes used, particularly in patients with congenital hip dysplasi...

    Authors: Han Zheng, Eryou Feng, Yao Xiao, Xingyu Liu, Tianyu Lai, Zhibiao Xu, Jingqiao Chen, Shiwei Xie, Feitai Lin and Yiling Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:308
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  16. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is often preceded by symptomatic phases during which classification criteria are not fulfilled. The health burden of these “at-risk” stages is not well described. This study assessed ...

    Authors: Barbara Torlinska, Karim Raza, Andrew Filer, Gurpreet Jutley, Ilfita Sahbudin, Ruchir Singh, Paola de Pablo, Elizabeth Rankin, Benjamin Rhodes, Nicole Amft, Elizabeth Justice, Catherine McGrath, Sangeetha Baskar, Jeanette Trickey, Melanie Calvert and Marie Falahee
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:307
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  17. Desmoplastic fibroma is an extremely rare primary bone tumor. Its characteristic features include bone destruction accompanied by the formation of soft tissue masses. This condition predominantly affects indiv...

    Authors: Yaokai Lu, Wei Lan, Qiangchu Wu, Yi Fu, Shengyuan Lan, Xixiong Wang, Xuwei Huang and Lu Ye
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:306
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  18. Historically, in-person physical therapy serves as a foundational component of nonoperative treatment of adhesive capsulitis (AC). This study compares the effectiveness of an at-home high-intensity stretch (HI...

    Authors: David E. Teytelbaum, Neil S. Kumar, Craig S. Dent, Spencer Neaville, Deborah H. Warren, Peter Simon and Christopher E. Baker
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:305
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  19. Clinicians and public health professionals have allocated resources to curb opioid over-prescription and address psychological needs among patients with musculoskeletal pain. However, associations between psyc...

    Authors: Kent F. Sutton, Grant H. Cabell, Lucas W. Ashley, Trevor A. Lentz, Brian D. Lewis, Steven A. Olson and Richard C. Mather III
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:304
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  20. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common orthopedic disorder, and its incidence has been increasing among young adults in recent years. The purpose of this study is to investigate the global, regional, and national tre...

    Authors: Yixiang He, Wenkai Jiang and Wenji Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:303
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  21. In transtendinous full thickness rotator cuff tears (FTRCT) with remnant cuff, conventionally, cuff remnant of the greater tuberosity (GT) is debrided for better tendon to bone healing. However, larger cuff de...

    Authors: Jae Min Lee, Jong-Hun Ji, Sang-Eun Park, Dongwhan Suh and Ki-Jeon Song
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:302
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  22. From the perspective of graft protection and early rehabilitation during the maturation and remodeling phases of graft healing, suture augmentation (SA) for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) has...

    Authors: Qingyang Meng, Ruilan Dai, Cheng Wang, Weili Shi, Yanfang Jiang, Ningjing Liu, Rui Li, Yingfang Ao, Xi Gong and Yong Ma
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:301
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  23. Obesity influences the development of osteoarthritis via low-grade inflammation. Progression of local inflammation (= synovitis) increased with weight gain in overweight and obese women compared to stable weig...

    Authors: Maximilian T. Löffler, Chotigar Ngarmsrikam, Paula Giesler, Gabby B. Joseph, Zehra Akkaya, John A. Lynch, Nancy E. Lane, Michael Nevitt, Charles E. McCulloch and Thomas M. Link
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:300
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  24. Comorbidities, as components of these heterogeneous features, often coexist with knee osteoarthritis, and are particularly prevalent in end-stage knee osteoarthritis. Here, we attempted to identify the differe...

    Authors: Jun Ma, Kai Zhang, Xilong Ma, Hao Wang, Chao Ma, Yahui Zhang and Ruiyu Liu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:299
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  25. To investigate factors that have an impact on the risk of falls and determine whether radiographic knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a factor involved in falls independent of knee pain, psychological factors, and p...

    Authors: Tatsuru Sonobe, Koji Otani, Miho Sekiguchi, Kenichi Otoshi, Takuya Nikaido, Mari Sato, Shinichi Konno and Yoshihiro Matsumoto
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:298
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  26. The efficacy and safety of perforator-based propeller flaps (PPF) versus free flaps (FF) in traumatic lower leg and foot reconstructions are debated. PPFs are perceived as simpler due to advantages like avoidi...

    Authors: Mitsutoshi Ota, Makoto Motomiya, Naoya Watanabe, Kohei Shimoda and Norimasa Iwasaki
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:297
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  28. Early assessment of the risk of nonunion in osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (OVCF) is beneficial to early clinical decision making. However, a comprehensive understanding of the risk factors for OV...

    Authors: Shichuan Liao, Yan Xu, Jing Liu, Ling Jiang, Guogang Dai and Yi Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:295
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  29. To assess the clinical safety, accuracy, and efficacy of percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) surgery using an enhanced method of unilateral puncture on the convex side for the treatment of painful osteoporotic vert...

    Authors: Qiuhan Li, Song Wang, Qing Wang, Pijun Yan and Jin Yang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:294
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  31. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can diagnose meniscal lesions anatomically, while quantitative MRI can reflect the changes of meniscal histology and biochemical structure. Our study aims to explore the associ...

    Authors: Lingtao Zhang, Wenfeng Mai, Xukai Mo, Ruifen Zhang, Dong Zhang, Xing Zhong, Shuangquan Zhao and Changzheng Shi
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:292
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  32. The aim of this study was to explore the long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) expression profiles in serum of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The role of these lncRNAs in this complex autoimmune situation n...

    Authors: Jianqiang Kou, Yongchen Bie, Mingquan Liu, Liqin Wang, Xiangyun Liu, Yuanliang Sun and Xiujun Zheng
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:291
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  33. The proximal femoral nail anti-rotation (PFNA) with cement enhancement enhances the anchorage ability of internal fixation in elderly with osteoporotic intertrochanteric fracture. However, whether it is superi...

    Authors: Xiang Zhou, Tao Chen, Yu-lin Jiang, De-bin Chen and Zhi-yong Tian
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:290
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  35. Teriparatide, a recombinant parathyroid hormone, is pivotal in osteoporosis treatment, particularly in post-surgical recovery for hip fractures. This study investigates its efficacy in functional recovery post...

    Authors: Ooi Chin Sheng, Wen-Tien Wu, Cheng-Huan Peng, Ting-Kuo Yao, Ing-Ho Chen, Jen-Hung Wang and Kuang-Ting Yeh
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:288
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  36. An accessory extreme far anteromedial portal can improve visualisation and ease inferior leaf meniscectomy in patients with lateral meniscal anterior horn horizontal tears. However, the therapeutic outcomes of...

    Authors: Na Guo, Cheng-bing Yang, An-hong Wang, Ying Jin, Shu-hong Wu and Hua-zhang Xiong
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:287
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  37. Femoral neck fractures (FNFs) are among the most common fractures in elderly individuals. Surgery is the main treatment for FNFs, and osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) is one of the unacceptable complic...

    Authors: Xiaoxiao Zhou, Shengyang Guo, Wenjun Pan, Linyuan Zhang, Houlin Ji and Yang Yang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:286
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  38. To investigate the effect of bone cement on the vertebral body and biomechanical properties in percutaneous cement discoplasty (PCD) for degenerative lumbar disc disease.

    Authors: Cunheng Yang, Fumin Wang, Xingxing Huang, Hao Zhang, Shengbo Shi, Fangjun Meng Zhang, Junxiao Gao and Xiaobing Yu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:285
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  39. The purpose of the study was to assess and compare the clinical efficacy of bone transport with either circular or unilateral external fixators over an intramedullary nail in the treatment of tibial bone defec...

    Authors: Xiayimaierdan Maimaiti, Kai Liu, Aihemaitijiang Yusufu and Zengru Xie
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:284
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  40. This study aimed to report the long-term survival of fixed-bearing medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) with a mean of 14-year follow-up, and to determine possible risk factors of failure.

    Authors: Kung-Tseng Hung, Chun‑Chieh Chen, Yu-Chih Lin, Sheng-Hsun Lee, Chih-Chien Hu, Yu-Han Chang, Pang-Hsin Hsieh, Hsin-Nung Shih and Chih-Hsiang Chang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:283
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  41. Ferritin heavy chain 1 (FTH1) is an important subunit of ferro-storing proteins and is indispensable for iron metabolism. Though it has been extensively studied in numerous organs and diseases, the relationshi...

    Authors: Zhikun Yuan, Lingfeng Yang, Yanhui Li, Xuming Li, Changgui Peng, Jianying Pan and Daozhang Cai
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:282
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  42. The Swedish Fracture Register (SFR) is a national quality register for all types of fractures in Sweden. Spine fractures have been included since 2015 and are classified using a modified AOSpine classification...

    Authors: Simon Blixt, Fabian Burmeister, Sebastian Mukka, Lukas Bobinski, Peter Försth, Olof Westin and Paul Gerdhem
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:281
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  43. The clinical efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) after Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is still controversial, and the purpose of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the effect of CBT on pain, knee fun...

    Authors: Kun Liu, Yuandong Liu, Xukai Ma, Donglin Fu and Zongqing Fan
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:280
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  44. There is evidence to suggest that assessing back-specific altered self-perception may be useful when seeking to understand and manage low back pain (LBP). The Fremantle Back Awareness Questionnaire (FreBAQ) is...

    Authors: Marco Monticone, Carolina Maurandi, Elisa Porcu, Federico Arippa, Benedict M. Wand and Giorgio Corona
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:279
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  46. The number of primary and revision Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) cases are expected to increase in future. There are various advantages and disadvantage to employing either of the two main types of stem fixati...

    Authors: Yogen Thever, Sir Young James Loh, Raghuraman Raghavan, Rong Chuin Toh and Ing How Moo
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:277
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  47. Traditional total hip arthroplasty (THA) using the direct anterior approach (DAA) requires a hip extension. This study aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of patients undergoing THA with DAA using either th...

    Authors: Hua-zhang Xiong, Kuan Xiang, Xiu-qi Liu, Ying Jin, He-he Zhong, Shu-hong Wu and Jia-chen Peng
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:276
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  48. Osteochondromas, classified as a new benign subtype of lipomas and characterised by chondroid and osseous differentiation, are rare lesions that have been infrequently reported in previous literature. The maxi...

    Authors: Fawzi Aljassir, Musab Alageel, Malak N. AlShebel, Abdulaziz M. Alsudairi, Ahmed Hashim and Ibrahim Alshaygy
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:275
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  49. There are a few studies on the effectiveness and safety of intravenous administration of tranexamic acid(TXA) in patients who underwent foot and ankle surgery, especially for preoperative hidden blood loss in ...

    Authors: Gang Tan, Jia Li, Jing Xu, Yongzhan Zhu and Hui Zhang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:274
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