Therapeutic potential low-intensity pulsed ultrasound for osteoarthritis: pre-clinical and clinical perspectives

SMZ Uddin, DE Komatsu - Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Osteoarthritis (OA), degeneration of cartilage associated with aging, lifestyle, and trauma, is
one of the most common diseases that leads to lower quality of life and socioeconomic …

Quantitative assessment of articular cartilage using high-frequency ultrasound: research findings and diagnostic prospects

HJ Nieminen, YP Zheng, S Saarakkala… - Critical Reviews™ in …, 2009 - dl.begellhouse.com
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a universal joint disease with significant socioeconomic effects. No
cure for OA is available, but its early diagnosis could enable more efficient treatment …

Sonographic evaluation of femoral trochlear cartilage in patients with knee pain

JK Kazam, LN Nazarian, TT Miller… - … of Ultrasound in …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate whether routine clinical sonographic
evaluation of femoral trochlear cartilage can identify abnormalities in patients with knee …

[PDF][PDF] Effect of ultrasound therapy for knee osteoarthritis: A meta-analysis of randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials

C Zhang, J Shi, C Zhu, T Xiang, Z Yi, Y Kong - Int J Clin Exp Med, 2016 - e-century.us
Objective: To perform a meta-analysis of randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled
clinical trials to separately assess the effect of continuous ultrasound (US) therapy and …

[HTML][HTML] The oral administration of highly-bioavailable curcumin for one year has clinical and chondro-protective effects: a randomized, double-blinded, placebo …

Y Nakagawa, K Mori, S Yamada, S Mukai… - … , Sports Medicine, and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical and chondroprotective
efficacy and safety of orally administered Theracurmin in patients who underwent …

Femoral cartilage ultrasound echo intensity associates with arthroscopic cartilage damage

MS Harkey, E Little, M Thompson, M Zhang… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study compared quantitative cartilage ultrasound metrics between people with (n= 12)
and without (n= 12) arthroscopic cartilage damage after anterior cruciate ligament injury …

[PDF][PDF] Quantitative ultrasound biomicroscopy for the analysis of healthy and repair cartilage tissue

K Gelse, A Olk, S Eichhorn, B Swoboda, M Schoene… - Eur Cell …, 2010 - ecmjournal.org
The increasing spectrum of different cartilage repair strategies requires the introduction of
adequate nondestructive methods to analyse their outcome in-vivo, ie arthroscopically. The …

Arthroscopic ultrasound assessment of articular cartilage in the human knee joint: a potential diagnostic method

E Kaleva, T Virén, S Saarakkala, J Sahlman… - Cartilage, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: We tested whether an intra-articular ultrasound (IAUS) method could be used to
evaluate cartilage status arthroscopically in human knee joints in vivo. Design: Seven …

Non-invasive and in vivo assessment of osteoarthritic articular cartilage: a review on MRI investigations

AFM Hani, D Kumar, AS Malik, RMKR Ahmad… - Rheumatology …, 2015 - Springer
Early detection of knee osteoarthritis (OA) is of great interest to orthopaedic surgeons,
rheumatologists, radiologists, and researchers because it would allow physicians to provide …

A retrospective analysis of characteristic features of responders and impaired patients to a single injection of pure platelet-rich plasma in knee osteoarthritis

C Bec, A Rousset, T Brandin, P François… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: The emergence of injectable “biologic” medication creates a new approach
to treat osteoarthritis (OA). Among them, the use of intra-articular injection of PRP became …