Sudden onset joint pain can be due to a newly acquired condition or a long-term disease that flares up to cause sudden pain. Some causes include arthritis, infections, and chronic conditions like ...

Septic arthritis is an important cause of musculoskeletal infection with high morbidity and mortality arising from irreversible joint destruction and overwhelming sepsis. Prompt diagnosis and ...

Mary Meyer MD, MPH, is an emergency physician with The Permanente Medical Group. She also holds a Master of Public Health and ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — The use of biologic and targeted therapies for children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) surpassed more typical therapies in recent years, according to ...

Seven hip joints and 7 knee joints were affected. Only 4 patients had risk factors for prosthetic joint infection (diabetes mellitus in 2, cancer in 1, and myelodysplasia in 1). The average time ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a form of arthritis and an autoimmune disease. An RA flare, also known as an exacerbation, is when a person experiences transient worsening of their RA symptoms—such as ...

The first therapeutic injections of hyaluronan in animal joints were performed on track horses for traumatic arthritis, the treatment proved effective and since then ... Lesquesne index for knee OA, ...

help confirm it as a distinct entity from rheumatoid arthritis and highlight some unique non-synovial based disease imaging features. The advent of magnetic resonance imaging and a better ...