Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ORLANDO — Understanding the nature and role of the synovium and synovial fluid is critical to managing various ...

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease which commonly impacts the knees, hands, hips, neck and lower back. This is the first of two stories describing recent progress in understanding the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Synovial fluid absolute neutrophil count had a sensitivity of 88.4% for detecting periprosthetic joint infection ...

Joints often crack due to harmless gas bubbles in fluid or tendons moving over bones. While usually normal, persistent pain, ...

A recent meta-analysis examined 217 trials involving 15,684 participants and six types of exercise to manage knee ...

A team at the University of Cambridge has shown how, in osteoarthritis patients, the viscous lubricant that ordinarily allows our joints to move smoothly triggers a pain response from nerve cells ...

Cartilage is filled with fluid -- about 80% of the volume of the cartilage tissue -- that plays the essential roles of supporting weight and lubricating joint surfaces. Loss of this fluid, called ...

First author K Elsaid (University of Rhode Island) and colleagues initially studied the phenomenon in animals and then in patients. In the first set of studies, they examined the correlation between ...

Scientists at Swansea University developing a platform that would use artificial intelligence to speed up the process of detecting biomarkers in biofluids have shown that the concept could work. It ...