Diseases and Disorders

Paget’s Disease of bone is a disease that causes affected bones to become enlarged and mis-shapen. Our bones are living tissue, and our bodies are constantly breaking down old bone and replacing it with new bone. In Paget’s disease, however, old bone is broken down and replaced at a faster rate than normal. The new bone is larger and weaker than normal bone.

Does Paget’s disease affect all t…

New Insights into Pain Mechanisms; Practical Advice on Pain Management.

Long treated as a side effect, pain is now widely

recognized as an integral part of patient care. While the last decade has brought extraordinary advances in the unraveling of pain mechanisms at the molecular level, evaluating and alleviating pain remains an ongoing challenge for physicians, particularly rheumatologis…

Many young women are unaware of the dangers of osteoporosis, leaving them vulnerable to crippling bone disease. These sobering findings were presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) in Denver.

Mark J. Kasper, Ed.D., FACSM was lead researcher for a survey of 302 college females enrolled in an elective physical activity course. While almost all (97…

In a study of 276 adolescents with the most common form of scoliosis, the overweight were more than twice as likely as those of normal weight to develop worsening curvatures, despite the brace. Almost half of these overweight teens eventually needed corrective surgery.

The study’s findings were presented at the annual meeting of the Scoliosis Research Society. Scoliosis affects approximately…

Only 5% or less of national research councils’ spending is allocated to musculoskeletal conditions in established market economies, yet musculoskeletal impairments ranked number one in chronic impairments reported in the USA.

Musculoskeletal conditions have an enormous and growing impact worldwide. HEALTH 21: the health for all policy framework for the WHO European Region, identifies musculo…