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Melissa Norton, MD Medical Editor
Jigisha Patel, MRCP PhD In-house Editor
Rikki Graham
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Research article
 
The discordance between clinical and radiographic knee osteoarthritis: a systematic search and summary of the literature
John Bedson, Peter R Croft
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:116 (2September2008)
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Validation of the GALS musculoskeletal screening exam for use in primary care: a pilot study
Karen A Beattie, Raja Bobba, Imaan Bayoumi, David Chan, Inge Schabort, Pauline Boulos, Walter Kean, Joyce Obeid, Ruth McCallum, George Ioannidis, Alexandra Papaioannou, Alfred Cividino
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:115 (27August2008)
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The Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand Questionnaire (DASH) can measure the impairment, activity limitations and participation restriction constructs from the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
Diane Dixon, Marie Johnston, Margaret McQueen, Charles Court-Brown
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:114 (20August2008)
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Photographic measurement of upper-body sitting posture of high school students: A reliability and validity study.
Sjan-Mari S van Niekerk, Quinette Q Louw, Christopher C Vaughan, Karen K Grimmer-Somers, Kristiaan K Schreve
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:113 (20August2008)
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Work-related musculoskeletal disorders among Nigerian Physiotherapists
Babatunde O.A Adegoke, Ashiyat K. Akodu, Adewale L Oyeyemi
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:112 (18August2008)
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The effect of low-dye taping on rearfoot motion and plantar pressure during the stance phase of gait
Kieran O'Sullivan, Norelee Kennedy, Emer O'Neill, Una Ni Mhainin
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:111 (18August2008)
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Responsibility for managing musculoskeletal disorders - A cross-sectional postal survey of attitudes
Maria EH Larsson, Lena A Nordholm
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:110 (5August2008)
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Evaluation of patients with a recent clinical fracture and osteoporosis, a multidisciplinary approach
Bianca Dumitrescu, Svenjhalmar van Helden, Rene ten Broeke, Arie Nieuwenhuijzen-Kruseman, Caroline Wyers, Gabriela Udrea, Sjef van der Linden, Piet Geusens
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:109 (5August2008)
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Tai Chi for treating knee osteoarthritis: Designing a long-term follow up randomized controlled trial
Chenchen Wang, Christopher H Schmid, Patricia L Hibberd, Robert Kalish, Ronenn Roubenoff, Ramel Rones, Aghogho Okparavero, Timothy McAlindon
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:108 (29July2008)
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Post-traumatic glenohumeral cartilage lesions: a systematic review
Heidi Ruckstuhl, Eling D de Bruin, Edgar Stussi, Benedicte Vanwanseele
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:107 (23July2008)
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Translation of the Neck Disability Index and validation of the Greek version in a sample of neck pain patients
Marianna N Trouli, Howard T Vernon, Kyriakos N Kakavelakis, Maria D Antonopoulou, Aristofanis N Paganas, Christos D Lionis
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:106 (22July2008)
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Effects of work ability and health promoting interventions for women with musculoskeletal symptoms: A 9-month prospective study
Agneta Larsson, Lena Karlqvist, Gunvor Gard
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:105 (21July2008)
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Clinical effectiveness of post-operative splinting after surgical release of Dupuytren's contracture: a systematic review
Debbie Larson, Christina Jerosch-Herold
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:104 (21July2008)
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Factor structure of the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index in patients with adhesive capsulitis
Einar Kristian Tveit , Leiv Sandvik, Ole Marius Ekeberg, Niels Gunnar Juel, Erik Bautz-Holter
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:103 (17July2008)
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Prevalence of widespread pain and associations with work status: a population study
Bj rn Gerdle, Jonas Bjrk, Lars Cster, KG Henriksson, Chris Henriksson, Ann Bengtsson
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:102 (15July2008)
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The effect on the extracellular matrix of the deep fascia in response to leg lengthening
Hai-Qiang Wang, Xin-Kui Li, Zi-Xiang Wu, Yi-Yong Wei, Zhuo-Jing Luo
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:101 (9July2008)
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Technical advance
Ipsilateral free semitendinosus tendon graft transfer for reconstruction of chronic tears of the Achilles tendon
Nicola Maffulli, Umile Giuseppe Longo, Nikolaos Gougoulias, Vincenzo Denaro
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:100 (8July2008)
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Muscle performance and ankle joint mobility in long-term patients with diabetes
Claudia Giacomozzi, Emanuela D'Ambrogi, Stefano Cesinaro, Velio Macellari, Luigi Uccioli
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:99 (4July2008)
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Tibial tubercle osteotomy for access during revision knee arthroplasty: Ethibond suture repair technique
Crawford R Deane, Nicholas A Ferran, Adel Ghandour, Rhidian L Morgan-Jones
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:98 (30June2008)
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Treatment of chronic back pain by sensory discrimination training. A Phase I RCT of a novel device (FairMed) vs. TENS
Karen L Barker, Christopher J Elliott, Catherine M Sackley, Jeremy CT Fairbank
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:97 (28June2008)
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Musculoskeletal symptoms of the upper extremities and the neck: A cross-sectional study on prevalence and symptom-predicting factors at visual display terminal (VDT) workstations
Andr Klussmann, Hansjuergen Gebhardt, Falk Liebers, Monika A Rieger
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:96 (27June2008)
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Comorbidity, limitations in activities and pain in patients with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee
Gabriella M van Dijk, Cindy Veenhof, Francois Schellevis, Harry Hulsmans, Jan PJ Bakker, Henk Arwert, Jos HM Dekker, Guus J Lankhorst, Joost Dekker
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:95 (26June2008)
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Alterations in the vimentin cytoskeleton in response to single impact load in an in vitro model of cartilage damage in the rat
Frances MD Henson, Thea A Vincent
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:94 (24June2008)
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Time-Action Analysis (TAA) of the Surgical Technique Implanting the Collum Femoris Preserving (CFP) Hip Arthroplasty. TAASTIC trial Identifying pitfalls during the learning curve of surgeons participating in a subsequent randomized controlled trial (An observational study)
Jakob van Oldenrijk, Matthias U Schafroth, Mohit Bhandari, Wouter C Runne, Rudolf W Poolman
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:93 (24June2008)
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Complex regional pain syndrome 1  the Swiss cohort study
Florian Brunner, Lucas M Bachmann, Ulrich Weber, Alfons GH Kessels, Roberto SGM Perez, Johan Marinus, Rudolf Kissling
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:92 (23June2008)
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Study to prospectively evaluate reamed intramedually nails in patients with tibial fractures (S.P.R.I.N.T.): Study rationale and design
The SPRINT Investigators
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:91 (23June2008)
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Altered motor control patterns in whiplash and chronic neck pain
Astrid Woodhouse, Ottar Vasseljen
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:90 (20June2008)
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Gait analysis does not correlate with clinical and MR imaging parameters in patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis
Felix Zeifang, Marcus Schiltenwolf, Rainer Abel, Babak Moradi
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:89 (20June2008)
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Biomechanical comparison of a new stand-alone anterior lumbar interbody fusion cage with established fixation techniques a three-dimensional finite element analysis
Shih-Hao Chen, Ching-Lung Tai, Chien-Yu Lin, Pang-Hsing Hsieh, Weng-Pin Chen
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:88 (18June2008)
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A simplified guide ruler from numeric table method in doing rotational osteotomy
Chen-Kun Liaw, Rong-Sen Yang, Sheng-Mou Hou, Tai-Yin Wu, Chiou-Shann Fuh
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:87 (16June2008)
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Isolation and characterization of side population stem cells in articular synovial tissue
Takeshi Teramura, Kanji Fukuda, Shinji Kurashimo, Yoshihiko Hosoi, Yoshihisa Miki, Shigeki Asada, Chiaki Hamanishi
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:86 (12June2008)
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Choline-stabilized orthosilicic acid supplementation as an adjunct to Calcium/Vitamin D3 stimulates markers of bone formation in osteopenic females: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial
Tim D Spector, Mario R Calomme, Simon H Anderson, Gail Clement, Liisa Bevan, Nathalie Demeester, Rami Swaminathan, Ravin Jugdaohsingh, Dirk A Vanden Berghe, Jonathan J Powell
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:85 (11June2008)
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Biomechanical comparison of lumbar spine instability between laminectomy and bilateral laminotomy for spinal stenosis syndrome an experimental study in porcine model
Ching-Lung Tai, Pang-Hsing Hsieh, Weng-Pin Chen, Lih-Huei Chen, Wen-Jer Chen, Po-Liang Lai
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:84 (11June2008)
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Damages of the tibial post in constrained total knee prostheses in the early postoperative course a scanning electron microscopic study of polyethylene inlays
Adrian Skwara, Carsten O Tibesku, Rudolf Reichelt, Susanne Fuchs-Winkelmann
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:83 (11June2008)
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Gender difference in symptomatic radiographic knee osteoarthritis in the Knee Clinical Assessment CAS(K): A prospective study in the general population
Rosie J Lacey, Elaine Thomas, Rachel C Duncan, George Peat
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:82 (11June2008)
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Differences across health care systems in outcome and cost-utility of surgical and conservative treatment of chronic low back pain: a study protocol
Markus Melloh, Christoph Rder, Achim Elfering, Jean-Claude Theis, Urs M ller, Lukas P Staub, Emin Aghayev, Thomas Zweig, Thomas Barz, Thomas Kohlmann, Simon Wieser, Peter Jni, Marcel Zwahlen
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:81 (6June2008)
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Are cervical multifidus muscles active during whiplash and startle? An initial experimental study
Gunter P Siegmund, Jean-Sbastien Blouin, Mark G Carpenter, John R Brault, J Timothy Inglis
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:80 (5June2008)
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Cross-cultural adaptation and determination of the reliability and validity of PRTEE-S (Patientskattad Utv rdering av Tennisarmbge), a questionnaire for patients with lateral epicondylalgia, in a Swedish population
Pia Nilsson, Amir Baigi, Bertil Marklund, Jrgen Mnsson
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:79 (5June2008)
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Technical advance
Soft tissue tenodesis of the long head of the biceps tendon associated to the Roman Bridge repair
Francesco Franceschi, Umile Giuseppe Longo, Laura Ruzzini, Giacomo Rizzello, Nicola Maffulli, Vincenzo Denaro
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:78 (4June2008)
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Perioperative celecoxib administration for pain management after total knee arthroplasty A randomized, controlled study
Yu-Min Huang, Chiu-Meng Wang, Chen-Ti Wang, Wei-Peng Lin, Lih-Ching Horng, Ching-Chuan Jiang
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:77 (3June2008)
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Spatiotemporal postural control deficits are present in those with chronic ankle instability
Patrick O McKeon, Jay Hertel
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:76 (2June2008)
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A systematic review with procedural assessments and meta-analysis of Low Level Laser Therapy in lateral elbow tendinopathy (tennis elbow)
Jan M Bjordal, Rodrigo AB Lopes-Martins, Jon Joensen, Christian Couppe, Anne E Ljunggren, Apostolos Stergioulas, Mark I Johnson
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:75 (29May2008)
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Patients with rheumatoid arthritis have an altered circulatory aggrecan profile
Jean C Rousseau, Eren U Sumer, Gert Hein, Bodil C Sondergaard, Suzi H Madsen, Christian Pedersen, Thomas Neumann, Andreas Mueller, Per Qvist, Pierre Delmas, Morten A Karsdal
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:74 (28May2008)
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Surgeons' beliefs and perceptions about removal of orthopaedic implants
Beate Hanson, Chris van der Werken, Dirk Stengel
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:73 (24May2008)
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Quantitative ultrasound does not identify patients with an inflammatory disease at risk of vertebral deformities
A Caroline Heijckmann, Bianca Dumitrescu, Arie C Nieuwenhuijzen Kruseman, Piet Geusens, Bruce HR Wolffenbuttel, Jolanda De Vries, Marjolein Drent, Maya SP Huijberts
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:72 (20May2008)
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Study protocol
The 2BFit study: is an unsupervised proprioceptive balance board training programme, given in addition to usual care, effective in preventing ankle sprain recurrences? Design of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Maarten DW Hupperets, Evert ALM Verhagen, Willem van Mechelen
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:71 (20May2008)
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Hallux valgus angle as main predictor for correction of hallux valgus
Axel R Deenik, Enrico de Visser, Jan-Willem K Louwerens, Maarten de Waal Malefijt, Frits F Draijer, Rob A de Bie
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:70 (15May2008)
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Charnley low-friction arthroplasty of the hip. Five to 25 years survivorship in a general hospital
Daniel Hern ndez-Vaquero, Abelardo Surez-Vazquez, Jesus Fernandez-Lombardia
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:69 (15May2008)
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Agreement, reliability and validity in 3 shoulder questionnaires in patients with rotator cuff disease
Ole M Ekeberg, Erik Bautz-Holter, Einar K Tveit, Anne Keller, Niels G Juel, Jens I Brox
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:68 (15May2008)
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Technical advance
A comparison between one- and two-fluoroscopic techniques in percutaneous vertebroplasty
Yen-Yao Li, Tsung-Jen Huang, Chin-Chang Cheng, Robert Wen-Wei Hsu
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:67 (13May2008)
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Technical advance
Percutaneous acetabuloplasty for metastatic acetabular lesions
Giulio Maccauro, Francesco Liuzza, Laura Scaramuzzo, Alessandro Milani, Francesco Muratori, Barbara Rossi, Victor Waide, Giandomenico Logroscino, Carlo A Logroscino, Nicola Maffulli
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:66 (5May2008)
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Study protocol
Motor control or graded activity exercises for chronic low back pain? A randomised controlled trial
Luciana G Macedo, Jane Latimer, Chris G Maher, Paul W Hodges, Michael Nicholas, Lois Tonkin, James H McAuley, Ryan Stafford
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:65 (5May2008)
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The relative timing of VMO and VL in the aetiology of anterior knee pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Rachel Chester, Toby O Smith, David Sweeting, John Dixon, Sarah Wood, Fujian Song
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:64 (1May2008)
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Fatigue in osteoarthritis: a qualitative study
J Denise Power, Elizabeth M Badley, Melissa R French, Angela J Wall, Gillian A Hawker
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:63 (1May2008)
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Study protocol
Splinting after contracture release for Dupuytren's contracture (SCoRD): protocol of a pragmatic, multi-centre, randomized controlled trial
Christina Jerosch-Herold, Lee Shepstone, Adrian J Chojnowski, Debbie Larson
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:62 (30April2008)
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Comparison of two self-reported measures of physical work demands in hospital personnel: A cross-sectional study
Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen, Nils Fallentin, Karl B Christensen, Jette N Jensen, Finn Diderichsen
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:61 (29April2008)
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Effectiveness of prolonged use of continuous passive motion (CPM), as an adjunct to physiotherapy, after total knee arthroplasty
Ton AF Lenssen, Mike JA van Steyn, Yvonne HF Crijns, Eddie MH Waltj, George M Roox, Ruud JT Geesink, Piet A van den Brandt, Rob A De Bie
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:60 (29April2008)
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Effectiveness of accelerated perioperative care and rehabilitation intervention compared to current intervention after hip and knee arthroplasty. A before-after trial of 247 patients with a 3-month follow-up
Kristian Larsen, Karen Elisabeth Hvass, Torben B Hansen, Per B Thomsen, Kjeld S balle
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:59 (28April2008)
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Study protocol
A randomised clinical trial of subgrouping and targeted treatment for low back pain compared with best current care. The STarT Back Trial Study Protocol
Elaine M Hay, Kate M Dunn, Jonathan C Hill, Martyn Lewis, Elizabeth E Mason, Kika Konstantinou, Gail Sowden, Simon Somerville, Kanchan Vohora, David Whitehurst, Chris J Main
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:58 (22April2008)
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Bracing Patients with Idiopathic Scoliosis: Design of the Dutch Randomized Controlled Treatment Trial
Eveline M Bunge, Harry J de Koning, the brace trial group
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:57 (22April2008)
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Efficacy and safety of a subacromial continuous ropivacaine infusion for post-operative pain management following arthroscopic rotator cuff surgery: A protocol for a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial
Jennifer A Coghlan, Andrew Forbes, Simon N Bell, Rachelle Buchbinder
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:56 (22April2008)
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Cutpoints for mild, moderate and severe pain in patients with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee ready for joint replacement surgery
Heidi Kapstad, Berit R Hanestad, Norvald Langeland, Tone Rusten, Knut Stavem
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:55 (21April2008)
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