In this secondary analysis, nearly 80% of patients with knee osteoarthritis did not require total knee replacement within 10 years of nonoperative care with or without knee arthroscopic surgery.
Results of the STEP 9 study in people with knee OA and obesity show that semaglutide not only induced significant weight loss but also improved knee pain and physical function.
Progressive resistance training or neuromuscular exercise for 12 weeks helped to improve hip function, pain, and quality of life to a similar degree in people with osteoarthritis.
Medscape Medical News spoke with osteoarthritis experts on the ideal amount of exercise for patients, available resources, and how to motivate patients to move more.
A new study failed to find an association between prior exposure to tick bites and chronic musculoskeletal symptoms and radiographic measures of osteoarthritis.
Rock music could offer patients with type 1 diabetes the means to stimulate insulin release and achieve real-time diabetes control via adapted pancreatic cells and speakers, suggests a novel study.
Rapid weight loss with antiobesity drugs had no significant impact on reduced mortality in a population-based study of more than 6000 adults with knee or hip osteoarthritis.