Healio

Prior surgery has no impact on exercise therapy, education outcomes in knee osteoarthritis

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Improvements in knee OA were similar in an education and exercise program regardless of previous knee surgery.
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Flexion Therapeutics Announces Virtual Poster Presentations for FX201, an Intra-Articular Gene Therapy Candidate for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis, at the American Society of ...

FX201 preclinical in vivo data in a rodent model of OA showed slowing of disease progression 12 weeks post-surgery, persistence of the vector genome in the joint for at least 92 days with absence of ...
BMJ

May the force be with you: understanding how patellofemoral joint reaction force compares across different activities and physical interventions—a systematic review and meta ...

Objective To systematically review and synthesise patellofemoral joint reaction force (PFJRF) in healthy individuals and those with patellofemoral pain and osteoarthritis (OA), during everyday ...
Medscape

Knee Flexion Contractures: Soft Tissue Correction With Monolateral External Fixation

Pediatric patients with severe knee flexion contractures were evaluated clinically and radiographically both preoperatively and postoperatively. Demographics, diagnosis, previous operations, and ...
Healio

Device reliably measures knee flexion gap for TKA

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published results showed reproducible and reliable measurement of the knee flexion gap with use of a device for ...
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Flexion Therapeutics to Advance Investigational Gene Therapy FX201 into High Dose Cohort of Phase 1 Clinical Trial in Knee Osteoarthritis and Expand Low and Mid Dose Treatment ...

BURLINGTON, Mass., Feb. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Flexion Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:FLXN) today announced plans to advance FX201 into the high dose cohort of the Phase 1 dose-escalation trial. The ...
News Medical

Physical therapy associated with lower odds of long-term opioid use after total knee replacement

The world's most common form of arthritis, knee osteoarthritis, causes sufferers pain and hurts their quality of life. Total knee replacement is the only option for people with severe knee ...
Medscape

Clinical Gait Analysis and Its Role in Treatment Decision-Making

The body's response to the valgus thrust at the knee is a net knee adductor moment (Figure 13). Joint kinetic data, specifically the net knee coronal plane moment in stance, would substantiate the ...