July 15, 2025

Cementless Knee Implants Show Superior Outcomes in Patients With Obesity

A new review comparing knee implant methods in obese patients finds cementless fixation may improve implant survival and reduce loosening compared with cemented approaches, especially in patients with BMI ≥35 kg/m².

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July 15, 2025

Methotrexate Shows No Knee OA Symptom Benefit, Study Finds

A 52-week randomized clinical trial found no significant difference between methotrexate and placebo in reducing pain or effusion-synovitis in patients with inflammatory knee osteoarthritis.

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June 30, 2025

Can Typos Change a Diagnosis?

Large language models used in clinical decision-making may offer different treatment recommendations depending on how a patient writes their message—even when the medical facts remain unchanged.

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June 25, 2025

Top Physical Therapies for Knee OA

A large-scale analysis of physical therapies for knee osteoarthritis found knee bracing, hydrotherapy, and exercise to be the most effective options for reducing pain and improving function.

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June 23, 2025

Teen ACL Injuries Linked to High Reinjury Risk

A long-term study of adolescent athletes who underwent ACL reconstruction found high rates of reinjury and other knee damage but also noted that most returned to sports and reported improved knee function over time.

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February 13, 2025

How Some Sports Injuries Can Cause Arthritis at an Early Age

Your high school soccer career ended with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and knee surgery. Now, 20 years later, you’re experiencing increasing pain in that same knee and the doctor diagnoses the problem as post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA).

Cedars-Sinai Pulse

April 16, 2025

How Do Feet Beat the Stress?

"As the calcaneus grows in size, it becomes taller, wider, and relatively shorter—essentially, more cube-like—revealing nature’s quiet strategy to manage internal bone stress."

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April 18, 2025

Gout Remission Linked to Lower Urate, Fewer Flares

Remission in gout after urate-lowering therapy was seldom after 1 but high after 5 years, finds a five-year NOR-Gout study tracking 211 patients.

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April 02, 2025

Cost-Effectiveness of Shoulder Arthroplasties Analyzed

Total shoulder arthroplasty was found to be more cost-effective than hemiarthroplasty.

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