Geriatric Musculoskeletal Resource Center

Women with higher uric acid levels around and after menopause show less bone loss. What could this mean?

Women do most housework and are at most risk of knee osteoarthritis. A study that assesses housework as a physical occupation has documented its toll on the knees. Again, recreational sports are vindicated.

High-dose vitamin D supplementation was somewhat favorable in preventing hip fracture and any nonvertebral fracture in persons aged 65 years and older in a Swiss study that appeared recently in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In a newly developed self-reported fitness survey intended to estimate fitness in adults aged 40 years and older, survey items in 4 fitness domains are correlated with analogous Senior Fitness Test items, indicating that participants can use the survey to self-report physical fitness accurately.

Women aged 50 years and older who experience worsening pain with aging also are at higher risk for depression, obesity, and declining physical function, according to researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle.

The aging process is difficult, involving multisystem functional decline, and the pharmacokinetics of medications are altered in older persons, resulting in increased risks. Concerns are demonstrated in case reports.

Knee pain is a common complaint in older patients, and osteoarthritis is the leading cause.

Hip fractures in older patients are projected to increase in frequency as the US population continues to age.

(AUDIO) Harvard orthopedic surgeon Jeffrey Katz discusses one of his recent studies that looked at risk factors for revision surgery after total hip replacement.

(AUDIO) Wilmer L. Sibbitt, Jr, MD--one of the world's leading authorities on the subject--offers succinct answers to questions about ultrasound and arthrocentesis, as well as other applications of ultrasound in primary care.