Gender Differences in Intervention Effects for High-Impact Conditions among Women Veterans Interesting research from the VA Health Services Research and Development Division which studied what gender differences exist in veterans who have depression, diabetes, and chronic pain syndromes. The VA specifically wanted to better understand sex differences in intervention effects for high-impact medical conditions […]
chronic pain syndromes, Depression, diabetes, fibromyalgia, orthopedics, osteoarthritis, sex differences, Veterans
Hormone Therapy May Cut Risk of Repeat Joint Replacement Surgery in Women Those who took HR after hip/knee replacement saw risk of second procedure drop by about 50 percent when taken for at least one year. Reprinted from HealthDay News — Women who start hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after having had hip or knee replacement […]
arthritis, hormones, Muscluloskeletal, osteoarthritis, surgery
Hormone replacement therapy and mid-term implant survival following knee or hip arthroplasty for osteoarthritis: a population-based cohort study D Prieto-Alhambra, M K Javaid, A Judge, J Maskell, C Cooper, N K Arden, on behalf of the COAST Study GroupOxford NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; [email protected] ABSTRACT Objectives: Osteolysis and […]
hormones, Musculoskeletal, osteoarthritis, surgery
Women with knee osteoarthritis (OA) have greater pain and greater reductions in function and quality of life than men. Often, osteoarthritis pain is directly related to sensitization and activation of nociceptors in the injured joint and correlates with the degree of joint effusion and synovial thickening. Sometimes, the pain does not match the degree of […]
Musculoskeletal, Neurology, osteoarthritis, psychosocial
