A controlled study by Finnish researchers from the ORTON Research Institute / University of Helsinki (Finland) showed that in patients with chronic patellofemoral pain syndrome the outcome of arthroscopy combined with a home exercise program was not better than the use of a home exercise program alone.

In a recent study on risk factors of progressive hip osteoarthritis, Dutch researchers with first author Annet M. Lievense from the Erasmus Medical Center (Rotterdam, Netherlands) found that using the variables obtained from patient history, physical examination, and radiologic findings enables the physician to better identify subjects at high risk for total hip replacement.

Despite an acute pain protocol, postoperative pain treatment is unsatisfactory, summarized the Dutch research group from the Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Treatment at the University Hospital of Maastricht (Netherlands). This is especially true after intermediate and major surgical procedures on an extremity or on the spine.

When patients suffering from acute low back pain receive recommended first-line care they do not recover more quickly with the addition of diclofenac or spinal manipulative therapy. This was the main outcome of a new study performed by researchers from the Back Pain Research Group, University of Sydney (Australia), with the aim to investigate whether the addition of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or spinal manipulative therapy, or both, would result in faster recovery in patients with acute low back pain.