Background: Conflicting reports exist in the medical literature regarding the association
between industry funding and published research findings. In this study, we examine the …

Purpose A study of 171 surgical cases and 171 matched controls was conducted to investigate
whether a familial predisposition toward tearing the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee …

Background Rotator cuff tendinosis is a common problem with significant health and economic
effects. Nonoperative management includes the widespread use of subacromial steroid …

Limited healthcare dollars have resulted in insistence that the benefit of new therapies be
evaluated before being approved for marketing or reimbursement under health service systems…

Bonniaud V, Parratte B, Amarenco G, Jackowski D, Didier JP, Guyatt G. Measuring quality of
life in multiple sclerosis patients with urinary disorders using the Qualiveen questionnaire. …

The Qualiveen questionnaire is a urinary disorder (UD)-specific health related quality of life (HRQL)
instrument. Recent data suggests Qualiveen has excellent validity in French-…

Purpose: To evaluate the use of the impingement test as a predictor of outcome following
subacromial decompression for patients with rotator cuff tendinosis. Type of Study: …

Background: Extensor tendinosis (“tennis elbow”) is a degenerative overuse tendinopathy
of the wrist extensors at their attachment to the lateral humeral epicondyle. No treatment has …

Background: Intra-articular corticosteroid injection is a commonly used therapy for adhesive
capsulitis, but there are only few studies that compare the efficacy of corticosteroids …

Background: Intra-articular corticosteroid injection is a common therapy for adhesive capsulitis,
but there is a lack of prospective randomized controlled studies analyzing the efficacy of …