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Wear and tear from daily movement can impact your joints with age. Many people over age 50 will experience osteoarthritis, resulting from the damage such long-term wear and tear does to the cartilage (protective tissue) between the bones of your joint.

As any person who s ever been pregnant can probably attest, musculoskeletal pain during pregnancy is not uncommonTrusted Source. You might develop som...

Young patients who undergo surgery for displaced tibial spine fractures, and who had both an extension and flexion contracture, had 2.2 times the odds of having a complication compared to patients who did not have any contractures, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic So...

Adults who tear a key ligament in the knee can fare well with a less extensive type of surgery, preliminary research suggests.

People often feel a crackling or popping sensation in the knees during movement. This is generally harmless and can affect any joints. However, people may also experience knee popping and pain which could be a sign of ligament injury, meniscal tear, or patellar tracking problems.

Many cycling injuries occur due to overuse of the joints of the lower body, especially the knees.

Exercise-based physical therapy is noninferior to arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for patient-reported knee function at five years among patients with a degenerative meniscal tear, according to a study published online July 8 in JAMA Network Open.

Prescribing smaller quantities of opioid medication appears to be as effective in controlling postoperative pain after knee surgery as higher quantities and may help to limit the number of opioids prescribed and possible diversion of unused prescription opioid medication, according to research prese...

Injections of hyaluronic acid (known as viscosupplementation) to treat knee osteoarthritis make almost no difference to pain and might raise risk of adverse events, suggests research published by The BMJ today.

A comparison of matched patient cases involving ACL repair with ACL reconstruction found that patients who undergo ACL repair have better outcomes than those who have ACL reconstruction, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine 2022 Annual Meeting.