Lower Extremity Review
Researchers in Australia and Britain sought to understand the effects of non-surgical treatments on pain and function in people with patellofemoral pain (PFP). After reviewing the findings from 65 randomized controlled trials they found 6 interventions with positive effects at 3 months in people with PFP.
A recent study from the Polish Academy of Sciences looked at the number of training days lost due to COVID-19 and vaccination against COVID-19 in elite athletes. The retrospective survey of 1,073 elite athletes found that…
Metformin has long been considered the first-line medication for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Combined with diet and exercise, the 3-part treatment regimen has been considered the best early approach to diabetes care. But when blood glucose becomes difficult to control and a second medication is…
Osteochondral lesions of the talus (OLT) are often associated with ankle pain and dysfunction. They can occur after ankle trauma, such as sprains or fractures, but they usually present as a continued ankle pain after the initial injury has resolved. Chronic ankle ligament instability and subsequent microtrauma may lead to insidious development of an OLT. Medial-sided lesions are more common (67%) than lateral-sided lesions.
Candidaemia is the most common fungal bloodstream infection in hospitalized patients. Diabetes is one of the risk factors for mortality from candidaemia. A group of researchers from Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, compared the epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and…
For patients undergoing foot and ankle surgery, preoperative oral antibiotics are standard of care. Yet, there is no consensus on the efficacy of this postsurgical protocol. For this study, researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis wanted to know whether postoperative oral antibiotics reduce the rate of surgical site infections (SSIs) in patients, with…
Writing in the 50th anniversary edition of the journal Age and Ageing, researchers Avan Sayer and Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft express optimism that a newly formed Global Leadership Initiative on Sarcopenia will develop international consensus on definition and diagnosis.
Using data from the Lifescan server, researchers sought to provide real-world evidence, that their products—the OneTouch Verio Reflect (OTVR) meter which provides ColorSure Dynamic Range Indicator (DCRI) and Blood Sugar Mentor (BSM) features that are complemented by the OneTouch Reveal (OTR) mobile app—support improved blood glucose control.
Researchers from the University of Nottingham have discovered a new class of polymer that can provide instructions to both immune and non-immune cells to aid healing in hard-to-treat diabetic wounds. The findings have been published in Advanced Materials.
The purpose of this cadaveric study was to quantify the severity of medial knee injuries based on medial compartment gapping as measured by stress ultrasonography. Methods: In 8 cadaveric knees, the distance between the medial tibial and…
MOBILE and ENHANCE were similarly designed randomized trials of walking impaired adults with relapsing-remitting or progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) who received placebo or 10 mg prolonged-release (PR)-fampridine twice daily for 24 weeks. Both studies showed sustained and clinically…
Exercise to counteract the undesirable side effects of standard medical care is gaining increasing attention in the literature. For example, exercise would include resistance training for patients receiving corticosteroid treatment to counteract the associated proximal myopathy and osteopenia not fully…
Psoriasis is known to involve the nails in nearly 90% of affected patients and can cause significant changes to the nails including pitting, onycholysis, subungual hyperkeratosis, discoloration, and onchomycosis. Like other autoimmune diseases, treatment for nail psoriasis (NP) must be customized to…
Nineteen states and 2 territories* have at least 35% of residents with adult obesity–more than doubling the number of states with a high obesity prevalence since 2018–according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
As older people become frail, they tend to fall more easily. Moreover, women have a higher rate of falls than men. However, effective strategies to avoid elderly women falling are lacking. The Timed Up and Go (TUG) test is a well-known indicator of falling tendency. This study clarifies the motor elements related to the…
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