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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have a patient with recurrent attacks of acute arthritis of the knee that last for about 1 week and then subside spontaneously. Joint aspiration shows inflammatory change with no crystal but a very ...

Dr. Ho Sang Jung and his research team from the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), in collaboration with Seoul St. Mary's ...

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 ...

There's something almost eerie about it. Your knee starts aching on a clear morning, the sky still blue, no rain in sight. Then, a few hours later, the clouds roll in. People who live with arthritis ...