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  1. Osteoporotic fractures are associated with mortality in postmenopausal woman. Whether raloxifen treatment after vertebroplasty can reduce mortality is unclear in this group. To compare the effect of raloxifene...

    Authors: Fu-Mei Su, Ying-Chou Chen, Tien-Tsai Cheng, Wei-Che Lin and Chun-Chung Lui
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:209
  2. The unilateral approach for bilateral decompression was developed as an alternative to laminectomy. Unilateral laminotomy has been rated technically considerably more demanding and associated with more periope...

    Authors: Yi-Hung Ho, Yuan-Kun Tu, Chih-Kun Hsiao and Chih-Han Chang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:208
  3. Thoracic ossification of ligamentum flavum (TOLF) is a progressively disabling disease. Isolated or continuous TOLF has been frequently reported in literature, however there are very few reports of multilevel ...

    Authors: Wen-jing Li, Shi-gong Guo, Zhi-jian Sun and Yu Zhao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:206
  4. No previous studies have created and validated prediction models for outcomes in patients receiving spinal manipulation for care of chronic low back pain (cLBP). We therefore conducted a secondary analysis alo...

    Authors: Darcy Vavrek, Mitchell Haas, Moni Blazej Neradilek and Nayak Polissar
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:205
  5. Traditionally, non-communicable diseases including musculoskeletal disorders have not been a priority in low-and-middle income countries. The main aim of this paper is to assess age and gender specific burden ...

    Authors: Emmanuel Kweku Nakua, Easmon Otupiri, Veronica Millicent Dzomeku, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Peter Agyei-Baffour, Alfred Edwin Yawson, Gloria Folson and Sandra Hewlett
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:204
  6. Activation of the deep stabilizing trunk muscle transversus abdominis (TrA) is important for trunk stabilization and spine stability. Sling exercises are used for the activation of trunk muscles, therefore we ...

    Authors: Jörn Lükens, Kim J. Boström, Christian Puta, Tobias L. Schulte and Heiko Wagner
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:203
  7. Previous studies have found inflammation, growth factors, and androgen signaling pathways all contribute to sarcopenia. However, few studies simultaneously have investigated the association between these poten...

    Authors: Yongxia Meng, Hongmei Wu, Yi Yang, Huanmin Du, Yang Xia, Xiaoyan Guo, Xing Liu, Chunlei Li and Kaijun Niu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:202
  8. Stratification strategies based on identifying patient’s prognosis in order to guide patient care constitute one of the most prominent and recent approach in low back pain research. The STarT Back Screening To...

    Authors: Isabelle Pagé, Jacques Abboud, Julie O᾽Shaughnessy, Louis Laurencelle and Martin Descarreaux
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:201
  9. This study compared the rates of mortality, medical complication, and reoperation after fixation surgery for displaced femoral neck fracture with those after hemiarthroplasty surgery for undisplaced femoral ne...

    Authors: Jeff Chien-Fu Lin and Wen-Miin Liang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:199
  10. Flight-related neck/shoulder pain is frequent among military helicopter pilots and crew members. With a lifetime prevalence of 81 % for pilots and 84 % for crew members, the prevalence of neck pain is consider...

    Authors: Mike Murray, Britt Lange, Bo Riebeling Nørnberg, Karen Søgaard and Gisela Sjøgaard
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:198
  11. The treatment of end-stage tuberculosis (TB) of the knee remains a significant clinical challenge, and clinical data are lacking. This study aimed to retrospectively determine the outcome of single-stage knee ...

    Authors: Xin Tang, Jing Zhu, Qi Li, Gang Chen, Weili Fu and Jian Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:197
  12. Gout is a consequence of an innate immune reaction to monosodium urate crystals deposited in joints. Acute gout attacks can be triggered by dietary factors that are themselves associated with serum urate level...

    Authors: Tanya J Flynn, Murray Cadzow, Nicola Dalbeth, Peter B Jones, Lisa K Stamp, Jennie Harré Hindmarsh, Alwyn S Todd, Robert J Walker, Ruth Topless and Tony R Merriman
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:196
  13. Sensorimotor function is degraded in patients after lower limb arthroplasty. Sensorimotor training is thought to improve sensorimotor skills, however, the optimal training stimulus with regard to volume, frequ...

    Authors: Torsten Pohl, Torsten Brauner, Scott Wearing, Knut Stamer and Thomas Horstmann
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:195
  14. Although women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) face a number of challenges in negotiating the journey to parenthood, no studies have explored the information needs of women with RA in relation to their childbea...

    Authors: Ilana N. Ackerman, Joanne E. Jordan, Sharon Van Doornum, Margaret Ricardo and Andrew M. Briggs
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:194
  15. Osteoarthritis is one of the primary causes of long-term functional disability. With an estimated 13.5 % prevalence in the general population contributes to a significant financial burden both for patients and...

    Authors: Despena Andrioti, Kypros Kyprianou and George Charalambous
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:193
  16. Bone resorption in the proximal femur due to stress shielding has been observed in a number of conventional cementless implants used in total hip arthroplasty. Short femoral-neck implants are claiming less int...

    Authors: Wolfram Steens, Friedrich Boettner, Rainer Bader, Ralf Skripitz and Alberto Schneeberger
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:192
  17. Endothelial damage and activation may play central roles in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc) and are reflected by microparticles (MPs) and soluble selectins. The objective of this study was to dete...

    Authors: Line V. Iversen, Susanne Ullman, Ole Østergaard, Christoffer T. Nielsen, Poul Halberg, Tonny Karlsmark, Niels H.H. Heegaard and Søren Jacobsen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:191
  18. Periodontitis (PD) has been reported to be associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. gingivalis) is a gram-negative anaerobic bacterium that is recognized as one of the major pathoge...

    Authors: Joo Youn Lee, In Ah Choi, Jin-Hee Kim, Kyoung-Hwa Kim, Eun Young Lee, Eun Bong Lee, Yong-Moo Lee and Yeong Wook Song
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:190
  19. Rotator cuff repair incidence rates have reportedly increased in the United States and England. Here we analyzed nationwide data relating to rotator cuff repairs recorded in the Finnish National Hospital Disch...

    Authors: Juha Paloneva, Vesa Lepola, Ville Äärimaa, Antti Joukainen, Jari Ylinen and Ville M Mattila
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:189
  20. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune multi-organ disease, characterized by episodes of disease flares and remissions over time, which may restrain affected patients’ ability to perform daily act...

    Authors: Mathilda Björk, Örjan Dahlström, Jonas Wetterö and Christopher Sjöwall
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:188
  21. The assessment of mobility is important in the acute care setting. Existing tests suffer from limitations. The aim of the study was to examine the inter-rater reliability, the validity, the sensitivity to chan...

    Authors: Karin Pieber, Malvina Herceg, Tatjana Paternostro-Sluga, Eleonore Pablik, Michael Quittan, Peter Nicolakis, Veronika Fialka-Moser and Richard Crevenna
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:187
  22. There are quite a few controversies on the surgical management of single-segment thoracic spinal tuberculosis with neurological deficits (STSTND). In this study, the clinical efficacy and feasibility of one-st...

    Authors: Hao Zeng, Penghui Zhang, Xiongjie Shen, Chengke Luo, Zhengquan Xu, Yupeng Zhang, Zheng Liu and Xiyang Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:186
  23. Exercise therapy following total hip replacement (THR) is considered to be important during the initial postoperative care, but till date only a few evidence-based recommendations exist. The aim of this survey...

    Authors: Christine Eulenburg, Anna-Lina Rahlf, Andrej Kutasow and Astrid Zech
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:185
  24. Patellar tendinopathy identified by imaging modalities has been reported in asymptomatic athletes and associated with tendon-related symptoms. However there is little data in community-based populations. The a...

    Authors: Jason Toppi, Jessica Fairley, Flavia M. Cicuttini, Jill Cook, Susan R. Davis, Robin J. Bell, Fahad Hanna and Yuanyuan Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:184
  25. Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with a high number of health outcomes, and its role on the immune system has been deeply investigated in recent years, although poor data are still available on vitamin...

    Authors: Valentina Signori, Carlo L. Romanò, Elena De Vecchi, Roberto Mattina and Lorenzo Drago
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:183
  26. The aim of this study was to evaluate, the existence of a signature of differentially expressed microRNAs (miRNAs) during osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow MSCs from OA and healthy donors and to descri...

    Authors: Pilar Tornero-Esteban, Luis Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Lydia Abásolo, María Tomé, Pedro López-Romero, Eva Herranz, Manuel A. González, Fernando Marco, Enrique Moro, Benjamín Fernández-Gutiérrez and José Ramón Lamas
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:182
  27. Minimal invasive surgery (MIS) has gained growing popularity in total hip arthroplasty (THA) but concerns exist regarding component malpositioning. The aim of the present study was to evaluate femoral and acet...

    Authors: Moritz M. Innmann, Marcus R. Streit, Jeanette Kolb, Jochen Heiland, Dominik Parsch, Peter R. Aldinger, Matthias Königshausen, Tobias Gotterbarm and Christian Merle
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:180
  28. Core myopathies are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of congenital myopathies with the common defined histopathological feature of focally reduced oxidative activity on muscle biopsy. It has a ...

    Authors: Rafael de Paiva Luciano, Eduardo Barros Puertas, Delio Eulalio Martins, Flavio Faloppa, David Del Curto, Luciano Miller Reis Rodrigues, Beny Schmidt, Acary Souza Bulle de Oliveira and Marcelo Wajchenberg
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:179
  29. Osteoarthritis (OA) is likely to become an increasing burden in the coming decades. Various agents have been developed to slow the progression of OA, and are collectively known as ‘disease-modifying drugs’, ho...

    Authors: Kai Huang, Jia-peng Bao, Gavin James Jennings and Li-dong Wu
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:178
  30. Unicondylar knee arthroplasty (UKA) is a well-established treatment for isolated osteoarthritis (OA) of the medial knee compartment. Aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the early clinical and radio...

    Authors: Joel Baur, Lukas Zwicky, Michael Tobias Hirschmann, Thomas Ilchmann and Martin Clauss
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:177
  31. The emergence of new therapies for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the paucity of head-to-head studies, and the heterogeneous nature of responses to current biologics highlight the need for the ide...

    Authors: Hubert G. Nüßlein, Rieke Alten, Mauro Galeazzi, Hanns-Martin Lorenz, Michael T. Nurmohamed, William G. Bensen, Gerd R. Burmester, Hans-Hartmut Peter, Karel Pavelka, Melanie Chartier, Coralie Poncet, Christiane Rauch and Manuela Le Bars
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:176
  32. Fixation failure is a relatively common sequela of surgical management of proximal humerus fractures (PHF). The purpose of this study is to understand the current state of the literature with regard to the bio...

    Authors: David Cruickshank, Kelly A. Lefaivre, Herman Johal, Norma J. MacIntyre, Sheila A. Sprague, Taryn Scott, Pierre Guy, Peter A. Cripton, Michael McKee, Mohit Bhandari and Gerard P. Slobogean
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:175
  33. The Timed Up and Go (TUG) test is quick and easy tests to assess patients’ functional mobility. However, its reliability in individuals with knee osteoarthritis (OA) has not been well established. The aims of ...

    Authors: Ahmad Alghadir, Shahnawaz Anwer and Jean-Michel Brismée
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:174
  34. Retrieved metal-on-metal acetabular cups are valuable resources in investigating the wear behaviour of failed hip implants, but adequate methods to do so are lacking. To further contribute to addressing this i...

    Authors: Garima Govind, Johann Henckel, Harry Hothi, Shiraz Sabah, John Skinner and Alister Hart
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:173
  35. The purpose was to investigate prevalence of bilateral discoid lateral menisci (DLM) in Han Chinese patients who received surgery for symptomatic DLM, as well as a follow-up study of their asymptomatic contral...

    Authors: Wen-Xin Liu, Jin-Zhong Zhao, Xiao-Qiao Huangfu, Yao-Hua He and Xing-Guang Yang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:172
  36. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for pain offers an alternative to traditional Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approaches. ACT focuses on the enhancement of ‘psychological flexibility’ that enables ...

    Authors: Antonia Barke, Jenny Riecke, Winfried Rief and Julia A. Glombiewski
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:171
  37. Adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) are mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from adipose tissue. MSCs have multiple properties including anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects in various disease models...

    Authors: Hyoju Yi, Kwi Young Kang, Youngkyun Kim, Hyerin Jung, Yeri Alice Rim, Narae Park, Juryun Kim, Seung Min Jung, Sung-Hwan Park and Ji Hyeon Ju
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:170
  38. Single-photon emission computed tomography-computed tomography (SPECT-CT) is a highly sensitive tool for detecting bone metabolism. We determined whether subchondral bone metabolism, as indicated by SPECT-CT i...

    Authors: Du Hyun Ro, Ho-Young Lee, Chong Bum Chang and Seung-Baik Kang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:169
  39. A lack of data exists on the long-term magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings after surgical repair of tibial plateau fractures (TPFs). We evaluated the MRI findings 13 to 31 years after surgical repair of ...

    Authors: Georg Mattiassich, Ernst Foltin, Martin Pietsch, Oliver Djahani, Albert Kröpfl, Martin Fischmeister and Georg Scheurecker
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:168
  40. Unstable pelvic fractures usually result from high-energy trauma. There are several treatment modalities available. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical application of a new less invasive ili...

    Authors: Lei Zhu, Lu Wang, Di Shen, Tian-wen Ye, Liang-yu Zhao and Ai-min Chen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:167
  41. The advent of anti-tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα) drugs has changed the course of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). While data are available concerning the long term effectiveness of single anti-TNF agents, little ...

    Authors: Mariagrazia Lorenzin, Augusta Ortolan, Paola Frallonardo, Francesca Oliviero, Leonardo Punzi and Roberta Ramonda
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:166
  42. The clinical knowledge of factors related to the spread of pain on the body has increased and understanding these factors is essential for effective pain treatment. This population-based study examines local (...

    Authors: Anna Grimby-Ekman, Björn Gerdle, Jonas Björk and Britt Larsson
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:165
  43. Glenohumeral instability is a common problem following traumatic anterior shoulder dislocation. Two major risk factors of recurrent instability are glenoid and Hill-Sachs bone loss. Higher failure rates of art...

    Authors: David J. Saliken, Troy D. Bornes, Martin J. Bouliane, David M. Sheps and Lauren A. Beaupre
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:164
  44. Steroid associated osteonecrosis is difficult to treat. Teriparatide, as the only one bone anabolic drug, has achieved very promising effect in osteoporosis and other bone skeletal diseases. We carried out thi...

    Authors: Yulei Dong, Yulong Li, Cheng Huang, Kai Gao and Xisheng Weng
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:163
  45. Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) has been demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of osteoporotic fracture. The bilateral pedicular approach is the most frequently used method. However, unilateral PVP i...

    Authors: Haijun Li, Lei Yang, Jian Tang, Dawei Ge, Hao Xie, Jinhua Chen, Lipeng Yu, Haifeng Wei, Weizhong Tian, Tao Sui and Xiaojian Cao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:162
  46. The Short Musculoskeletal Function Assessment (SMFA) questionnaire is one of the most commonly used scales to evaluate functional status and quality of life (QOL) of patients with a broad range of musculoskele...

    Authors: Ying Wang, Zehui He, Lifang Lei, Dingkun Lin, Yajie Li, Gang Wang, Huimin Zhai, Jingli Xu, Guangqing Zhang and Meizhen Lin
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:161
  47. The optimal treatment for proximal humeral fractures remains under debate. In this article, we report the mid-term results of patients who underwent the less-invasive implantation of a polyaxial locking plate ...

    Authors: Benjamin Bockmann, Benjamin Buecking, Daniel Franz, Ralph Zettl, Steffen Ruchholtz and Juliane Mohr
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:160
  48. Mechanical loading of bones activates modeling and suppresses remodeling by promoting bone formation. Eldecalcitol is approved for the treatment of osteoporosis in Japan and is often used in patients undergoin...

    Authors: Yusuke Yamasaki, Keita Nagira, Mari Osaki, Hideki Nagashima and Hiroshi Hagino
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:158
  49. Direct measurement of disc biochemical content is impossible in vivo. Therefore, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to evaluate disc health. Unfortunately, current clinical imaging techniques do not adequat...

    Authors: Chun Chen, Zhiwei Jia, Zhihua Han, Tao Gu, Wei Li, Hao Li, Yong Tang, Jianhong Wu, Deli Wang, Qin He and Dike Ruan
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:157

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