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7 May 2024
How does OA treatment work in public hospitals in other countries?
We have repeatedly written about the treatment method called "artrosskola" in swedish(osteoarthritis school), which is part of the basic treatment for osteoarthritis in Sweden. In ...
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17 Apr 2024
Join us in the lab!
We have previously written about doctoral student Amanda Sjögren and her research. Here we have the opportunity to partake in her work in the form of a video clip from her work in ...
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3 Apr 2024
Strength training and knee osteoarthritis
In a study conducted in the United States, researchers investigated whether strength training is beneficial for individuals with knee osteoarthritis. There has been a historical be...
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25 Mar 2024
Two years of exciting OA research with PhD student Amanda Sjögren
Last year, we had several opportunities to engage with Amanda Sjögren’s work during her time as a PhD student at the Unit for Clinical Epidemiology in Orthopedics at Lund Universit...
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26 Feb 2024
The role of the meniscus in the development of knee osteoarthritis - A research project funded by the European Research Council
The European Research Council (ERC) is a key research funder in Europe funding researchers with projects with potential to be ground-breaking across all fields of science. As the p...
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19 Feb 2024
How does "OA school" work as a treatment for Osteoarthritis?
Last week, you read the first part of our interview with Elin Östlind and Thérése Jönsson, specialist physiotherapists with extensive experience in osteoarthritis education/school ...
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11 Feb 2024
Specialist physiotherapists tell us about "osteoarthritis school"
We have spoken with two specialist physiotherapists who are experts in "osteoarthritis school" (Swedish: artrosskola). Many people turn to us to ask what osteoarthritis school is, ...
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5 Feb 2024
Can women's alcohol habits be related to the need for hip replacement surgery due to osteoarthritis?
Researchers have investigated whether there is a correlation between hip osteoarthritis and alcohol habits in women. Alcohol habits have been studied many times before, and both be...
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29 Jan 2024
Can metformin reduce the risk of osteoarthritis?
A drug is often developed to treat a specific disease, but many times drugs have shown to have good effects on other conditions than the originally intended one.
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24 Jan 2024
Medicine for type 2 diabetes can reduce the risk of developing osteoarthritis
At the large American congress ACR Convergence on rheumatological diseases held in 2021, results from a large study were presented indicating that the diabetes medication metformin...
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14 Dec 2023
What does the physiotherapist say about exercise for osteoarthritis?
Here follows the second part of our interview with Andrea Dell'Isola, a physiotherapist and associate professor at Lund University.
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27 Nov 2023
Reportage: Andrea Dell'Isola - physiotherapist and associate Professor
We have spoken to and asked some questions to Andrea Dell’Isola, a physiotherapist and associate Proffesor at Lund University. Andrea trained to become a physiotherapist in Italy a...
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15 Nov 2023
Covid-19's impact on Osteoarthritis diagnosis
This study from the Netherlands examined how the initial healthcare contacts for individuals with suspected or confirmed osteoarthritis were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The ...
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2 Oct 2023
Ouch, Osteoarthritis! - What does the research say?
Lund university hosted a live broadcast on their Facebook page where two researchers answered questions about osteoarthritis.
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2 Sep 2023
Reportage: Come with Sven to his surgery
In this series, we continue our reporting on the timeline of surgical treatment of late stage osteoarthritis. Today we meet Sven, who has had problems with pain and limited mobilit...
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28 Aug 2023
Prolonged morning stiffness and osteoarthritis
There are several different symptoms that are common in osteoarthritis, and one of them is stiffness in the affected joint. We summarised a research study where prolonged morning s...
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24 Jul 2023
New study on PRP in ankle osteoarthritis
In a recent study from the Netherlands, researchers investigated whether PRP has any effect on ankle osteoarthritis.
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22 Jul 2023
Reportage: One year as a Ph.D. student
We have been given the opportunity to continue our reportage series where we have interviewed Amanda Sjögren about her work.
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20 Jun 2023
Osteoarthritis research at Lund University
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6 Jun 2023
Reportage: Get ready for surgery with Sven
Exactly one year after Sven met the orthopedic doctor in Lund for the first time, he gets an appointment at the hospital where he is to be operated. The first appointment is for an...