GuidelineThe Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons2009
Treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee (nonarthroplasty).
Guideline in The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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66 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 210 citations in OpenAlex.
- Functional manifestations of early knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical rheumatology · 2022Pooled it
- Systematic Review Shows Tele-Rehabilitation Might Achieve Comparable Results to Office-Based Rehabilitation for Decreasing Pain in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Pooled it
- Efficacy and Safety of Massage for Osteoarthritis of the Knee: a Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of general internal medicine · 2019Trial
- Efficacy of a single intra-articular injection of ultra-high molecular weight hyaluronic acid for hip osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled study.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2018Trial
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- Efficacy and safety of loxoprofen hydrogel patch versus loxoprofen tablet in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled non-inferiority trial.Clinical rheumatology · 2016Trial
- The PICO project: aquatic exercise for knee osteoarthritis in overweight and obese individuals.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2013Trial
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- Influence of Synovial Fluid Biochemical Markers on Clinical Outcomes Following Arthroscopic and Non-Arthroscopic Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis.Orthopedic reviews · 2026Article
- Association between gut microbiota composition and physical functioning in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a machine learning study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Hypothalamus Regulates Anabolic Metabolism of Articular Cartilage Superficial Chondrocytes through PGE2 Skeletal Interoception.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cell Secretome Improves Clinical Outcomes and Changes Biomarkers in Knee Osteoarthritis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Evaluation of the changes in incidence and patient age of knee arthroscopy along with changes in time between knee arthroscopy and arthroplasty between 1998 and 2018: a nationwide register study.Knee surgery & related research · 2023Article
- Thermal and compositional characterization of chicken, beef, and pork cartilage to establish its lifetime.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Arthroscopic knee debridement in osteoarthritis in the older age can be satisfactory.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2023Article
- Subchondral bone microenvironment in osteoarthritis and pain.Bone research · 2021Review
- "I've been to physical therapy before, but not for the knees." A qualitative study exploring barriers and facilitators to physical therapy utilization for knee osteoarthritis.Musculoskeletal care · 2020Article
- Association between hip extensor muscle weakness and disability of activities of daily living in patients with early-stage knee osteoarthritis.Rheumatology international · 2020Article
6 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
The clinical practice guideline was explicitly developed to include only treatments less invasive than knee replacement (ie, arthroplasty). Patients with symptomatic osteoarthritis of the knee are to be encouraged to participate in self-management educational programs and to engage in self-care, as well as to lose weight and engage in exercise and quadriceps strengthening. The guideline recommends taping for short-term relief of pain as well as analgesics and intra-articular corticosteroids, but not glucosamine and/or chondroitin. Patients need not undergo needle lavage or arthroscopy with débridement or lavage. Patients may consider partial meniscectomy or loose body removal or realignment osteotomy, as conditions warrant. Use of a free-floating interpositional device should not be considered for symptomatic unicompartmental osteoarthritis of the knee. Lateral heel wedges should not be prescribed for patients with symptomatic medial compartmental osteoarthritis of the knee. The work group was unable either to recommend or not recommend the use of braces with either valgus- or varus-directing forces for patients with medial unicompartmental osteoarthritis; the use of acupuncture or of hyaluronic acid; or osteotomy of the tibial tubercle for isolated symptomatic patellofemoral osteoarthritis.
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