The Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine Vol 29 No 2

March 03, 2012

The use of 3 Tesla MRI scans is becoming increasingly common in clinical practice.

March 03, 2012

A healthy 40-year-old active-duty male soldier presented with a painless groin mass, which he had noted a few weeks earlier.

March 03, 2012

Exercises to promote strengthening, conditioning, and pain control are prescribed regularly as part of the “medical armamentarium.”

March 03, 2012

Eosinophilic fasciitis (EF), also known as Shulman disease and diffuse fasciitis with eosinophilia, is an uncommon condition that often is confused with scleroderma because they have similar features.

March 03, 2012

Musculoskeletal problems are some of the main reasons why patients go to physicians or other health care professionals.

March 03, 2012

Thirty million Americans have used cocaine, making the United States the world’s largest consumer of the substance; there are about 5 million current users.

March 03, 2012

Tai chi training appears to be effective as a stand-alone behavioral intervention for reducing balance impairments in patients who have mild to moderate Parkinson disease.

March 03, 2012

There is a strong dose-dependent association between sleep problems and the risk of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) in women.

March 03, 2012

The sensitivity, specificity, and feasibility of the ClASsification criteria for Psoriatic ARthritis (CASPAR) are maintained when they are adapted for retrospective use to classify an established research cohort from medical records.

March 03, 2012

In patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), low pain thresholds reflect "fibromyalgic" RA (many tender points) and central pain sensitization with a prolonged disease duration.

March 03, 2012

Disease burden in patients with a new diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) changes over the first 5 years.

March 03, 2012

Statins help reduce total cholesterol (TC) concentrations in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) or rheumatoid arthritis (RA).