Tag: osteoarthritis

Online, Unsupervised Tai Chi Program Achieves Significant Improvements in Pain and Function in Knee Osteoarthritis

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From Medscape Medical News, 31 October 2025: People with knee osteoarthritis (OA) who took part in a 12-week online, unsupervised tai chi program showed significant improvements in both knee pain and function compared to controls. Clinical guidelines for knee OA strongly endorse tai chi as a recommended exercise option, and systematic reviews have shown improvements … Continue reading Online, Unsupervised Tai Chi Program Achieves Significant Improvements in Pain and Function in Knee Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis has a placebo problem, and it’s challenging both research and clinical practice

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From Medscape Medical News, 18 June 2025: At the recent World Congress on Osteoarthritis (OARSI) 2025 Annual Meeting in Incheon, South Korea, speaker after speaker presented on studies that were carefully designed to identify even the smallest benefit of interventions, including drugs, physical therapy, exercise therapy, and even surgery, compared with placebo. And in many cases, the … Continue reading Osteoarthritis has a placebo problem, and it’s challenging both research and clinical practice

Novel shoe intervention may cut low back pain, delay knee arthroplasty in osteoarthritis

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From Medscape Medical News, 6 May 2025: A shoe-based biomechanical intervention worn for a short time each day may achieve greater improvements in low back pain and greater reductions in the risk for total knee replacement surgery than standard physical therapy, according to two studies presented at the World Congress on Osteoarthritis (OARSI) 2025 Annual … Continue reading Novel shoe intervention may cut low back pain, delay knee arthroplasty in osteoarthritis

Platelet-rich plasma injections show no benefit in knee OA in placebo-controlled trial

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From Medscape, 23 November 2021: A large randomized, placebo-controlled trial of platelet-rich plasma injections for knee osteoarthritis has found almost no symptomatic or structural benefit from the treatment, giving some clarity to an evidence base that has seen both positive and negative trials for the treatment modality. Given the need for better disease-modifying treatments for … Continue reading Platelet-rich plasma injections show no benefit in knee OA in placebo-controlled trial

Platelet-Rich Plasma Injections Show No Benefit in Knee OA in Placebo-Controlled Trial

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From Medscape, 23 November 2021: A large randomized, placebo-controlled trial of platelet-rich plasma injections for knee osteoarthritis has found almost no symptomatic or structural benefit from the treatment, giving some clarity to an evidence base that has seen both positive and negative trials for the treatment modality. Given the need for better disease-modifying treatments for … Continue reading Platelet-Rich Plasma Injections Show No Benefit in Knee OA in Placebo-Controlled Trial