OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of the individual components of physiotherapy in subjects with anterior knee pain. METHODS An observer blind, prospective, factorial design randomised controlled ...

Background The SELENA flare index (SFI) has functioned well in clinical and clinical trial settings (1), but has the limitation that it classifies only severe versus combined mild/moderate flares.

MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Community Clinical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK Correspondence to: Dr K T Palmer, MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, ...

Objective: To validate and refine two sets of candidate criteria for the classification/diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (SpA). Methods: All Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society ...

Background Relationship between inflammatory lesions on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and clinical disease activity measures is still unclear in patients (pts) with spondyloarthritis (SpA). In some ...

Background: Macrophage activation plays a crucial part in synovial inflammation, a driving force in osteoarthritis (OA) [1]. Our previous research has revealed that NOD2 attenuates OA by modulating ...

Objectives To report the level and trends of prevalence, incidence and years lived with disability (YLDs) for osteoarthritis (OA) in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2017 by age, sex and ...

Background: Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) is a rare type of ANCA associated Vasculitis (AAVs). Cyclophosphamide (CYC) is generally recommended for the induction of remission in ...

Background Significant trauma and muscular tightness often result during Total Knee Artroplasty (TKA) surgery and thus act to restrict tissue fluid movement resulting with lower extremity oedema.

Pathology Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium Correspondence to Professor F A Houssiau, Rheumatology Department, Cliniques ...

1 Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Beijing, China 2 Pingxiang People’s Hospital, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Pingxiang ...

Correspondence to Dr Laura C Cappelli, Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA; lcappel1{at}jhmi.edu Objective We sought to investigate the long-term outcomes of ...