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Inflammatory OA Knee

Effect of Low-dose Oral Prednisolone on Symptoms and Systemic Inflammation in Older Adults with Moderate to Severe Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Placebo-controlled Trial J Rheumatol. 2014 Jan;41(1):53-9. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.130199. Epub…

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Treating Knee Pain

Placebo bests chondroitin, glucosamine combo for knee osteoarthritis Combination therapy involving chondroitin sulfate… rheumatologynews.com|By DEEPAK CHITNIS Glucosamine and Chondroitin combination was no better than placebo for pain reduction in OA…

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Evaluating OA Knee

MRI-detected subchondral bone marrow signal alterations of the knee joint: terminology, imaging appearance, relevance and radiological differential diagnosis   www.sciencedirect.com MRI is arguably the most important investigative tool in knee…

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Knee Pain

2016 Patellofemoral pain consensus statement from the 4th International Patellofemoral Pain Research Retreat, Manchester. Part 1: Terminology, definitions, clinical examination, natural history, patellofemoral osteoarthritis and patient-reported outcome measures.com m.bjsm.bmj.com 2016…

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Meniscal Tear

Meniscal Tears May Not Need Surgery A study published in the British Medical Journal examines whether knee surgery or conservative medical management benefits those with degenerative meniscal… rheumnow.com For degenerative…

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Exercise

Closest Thing to a Wonder Drug? Try Exercise If the effects of exercise could be put in a pill and prescribed, it would be rightly hailed as an almost miraculous…

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Sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis: Practice Essentials, Background, Pathophysiology Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that predominantly affects the lungs and intrathoracic lymph nodes. Sarcoidosis is… emedicine.medscape.com Sarcoidosis  www.docguide.com Sarcoidosis Update…

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Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia: All you want to, need to, ought to know Fibromyalgia is currently understood to be a disorder of central pain processing or a syndrome of central sensitivity. Clauw describes…

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