BMJ3mon
A randomised controlled trial of intra-articular corticosteroid injection of the carpometacarpal joint of the thumb in osteoarthritis
Conclusions: No clinical benefit was gained from intra-articular steroid injection to the CMCJ in moderate to severe osteoarthritis compared with placebo injection. ACR, American College of ...
BMJ1y
FRI0307 The association between pain and ultrasonographic features of hand osteoarthritis in finger joints
Background Hand osteoarthritis (HOA) may cause considerable pain ... grey scale synovitis and power Doppler (PD) in the 1st carpometacarpal (CMC), first interphalangeal, 2nd-5th proximal (PIP) and ...
rmdopen.bmj1y
Surgical denervation as a treatment strategy for pain in hand osteoarthritis: a systematic literature review
Objective Surgical denervation has been proposed as a treatment for pain in hand osteoarthritis (OA ... reported no difference in outcome when comparing denervation of the first carpometacarpal (CMC I ...
ebm.bmj23d
Paracetamol as first line for treatment of knee and hip osteoarthritis
phc.ox.ac.uk Although several clinical guidelines recommend paracetamol as a first-line agent in the management of knee and hip osteoarthritis, the authors of a recently published Cochrane review ...