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Since massage is one of the most popular and important therapies for back pain, its effectiveness was investigated in a randomized study involving 400 patients with chronic low back pain (lasting longer than 3 months), treated with either usual care, 10 weekly sessions of relaxing massage (intended [...]
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Up to now, the results of observational and RCT studies concerning calcium intake have been rather inconclusive. With this in mind, a Swedish prospective study has recently investigated the associations between calcium intake and the risk of fracture of any type, in 61,000 women. Risk of [...]
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A recent study (March 2011) has suggested the possibility that the use of bisphosphonates for long terms can cause atypical hip fractures, in general subtrochanteric ones. Now, some researchers have examined again the cases of atypical hip fractures occurred in 2008 among all Swedish women ≥ 55 [...]
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Not many data have been published on the death causes in people suffering from hip or knee osteoarthritis, so, in the South-East of England, a cohort study has been performed, assessing both the causes for specific mortality and the ones for overall mortality in 1,163 subjects with a documented hip [...]
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Pulmonary embolism represents, no doubt, a very rare complication after an arthroscopy procedure, and, in order to evaluate its extent, a group of researchers in New York have examined a database including 418,000 patients undergoing knee arthroscopy between 1997 and 2006. A symptomatic pulmonary [...]
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It is usually thought that a deficit in vitamin D is associated with an increased bone weakness in old population. In order to verify the correctness of this opinion, some researchers have performed a cross-sectional and longitudinal study on the relation between the levels of vitamin D and a [...]
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The diagnosis of osteoporosis and its consequent pharmacological treatment are based on T-score assessment, obtained through DEXA. In recent times, prediction models of fracture risk at 10 years have been created and researchers have tried to see how these predictions can influence the use of [...]
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For the treatment of postmenopausal and of cortisone-related osteoporosis, the primary role is kept by bisphosphonates, even if some studies have suggested a possible link between the continued use of these molecules and the onset of low-energy hip fractures (subtrochanteric or diaphisary ones), a [...]
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Both in randomized and observational studies, glitazones (pioglitazone and rosiglitazone) have been associated with an increased risk of fracture and the biological explanation is convincing: activating PPAR-gamma bone receptors (a wide group of proteins intervening in transcription processes) [...]
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Despite there is not drugs capable to reduce the risk of fractures of 50%-70% after 6-12 months of treatment, postmenopausal osteoporosis often remains not recognized and consequently not treated, with easily foreseeable consequences. The North American Menopause Society (NAMS), in its declarations [...]