stanford.edu Objective To examine the current evidence regarding return-to-play (RTP) and performance after Achilles tendon rupture in elite athletes treated with operative intervention. Design ...

Was it from rolling your ankle in the backyard yesterday? Or could it be tendonitis from the extra miles you ran this week? Maybe it’s from gout, a type of arthritis sometimes known as “the disease of ...

The Achilles tendon is a thick tendon located in the back of the leg, just above the heel. It connects the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles in the calf to an insertion point at the calcaneus (heel ...

The Achilles tendon is the strongest tendon in the body, linking the heel bone to the calf muscle. Problems with the Achilles are some of the most common conditions seen by sports medicine doctors.

Introduction Reported adherence to urate-lowering therapy (ULT) in gout varies widely (17%–83.5%). Variability may partly be due to different adherence measurement ...

Background: Both acute and long-term management of gout in primary care in UK is reportedly suboptimal 1, with patients rarely being offered lifestyle advice or urate Lowering Therapy (ULT). Further, ...

The current effort was undertaken to develop new classification criteria for gout. Methods An international group of investigators, supported by the American College of Rheumatology and the European ...

Objective To test whether the double contour (DC) sign has a different dynamic behaviour in gout and calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) and whether the dynamic assessment of the DC sign increases ...

(RTTNews) - XORTX Therapeutics Inc. (XRTX), a late-stage clinical pharmaceutical firm focused on therapies for progressive kidney disease and gout, has launched a non-brokered private placement to ...

Gout is often associated with drinking too much or not eating healthily enough, but research suggests genetics play more of a factor in developing the arthritic condition than previously thought. A ...

The authors made an important finding that CD29+/CD56+ progenitor cells isolated from human muscles have the potential to differentiate to tendons in vitro and in vivo. The author's approach to ...