Background Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common adult rheumatic disease characterized by cartilage degradation, synovial inflammation and subchondral bone remodeling. Risk factors associated with OA ...

Knuckle cracking, a common habit, involves the formation of an air bubble in the synovial fluid of finger joints. While the exact cause of the cracking sound remains unclear, studies have not ...

The purpose of our study was to determine whether axial loading of a flexed knee by an impacting instrument panel produced MRI-detectable bone bruising in head-on motor vehicle accidents. All ...

The IW fs sequence demonstrated size of subchondral BMLs as being larger in 186 (93.0%) subregions when compared to the DESS (Wilcoxon signed-rank test, p < 0.0001) (Table 2). This includes ...