ReviewKnee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA2016
Sport and early osteoarthritis: the role of sport in aetiology, progression and treatment of knee osteoarthritis.
Review in Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05450458 (Safety and Effectiveness of Hyaluronic Acid and Sorbitol With Overuse Knee Pain in Sportsmen), which is not on this map. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Safety and Effectiveness of Hyaluronic Acid and Sorbitol With Overuse Knee Pain in Sportsmen
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.
- Biological intra-articular augmentation for osteotomy in knee osteoarthritis: strategies and results : A systematic review of the literature from the ESSKA Orthobiologics Initiative.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Pooled it
- The Risk of Knee Osteoarthritis in Professional Soccer Players—a Systematic Review With Meta-AnalysesDeutsches Arzteblatt international · 2021Pooled it
- Comparison of Single and Combined Treatment with Exercise Therapy and Collagen Supplementation on Early Knee Arthritis among Athletes-A Quasi-Randomized Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Factors that Affect the Content of Cadmium, Nickel, Copper and Zinc in Tissues of the Knee Joint.Biological trace element research · 2017Trial
- Exercise-myokine relationships in osteoarthritis.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Review
- Site-specific biomechanical alterations of the knee during gait in ACL-deficient patients with concomitant cartilage lesions.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Article
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- Optimal exercise modalities and doses for therapeutic management of osteoarthritis of the knee.Frontiers in aging · 2025Review
- Unicompartmental osteoarthritis: High survival rate with a combined mechanical and biological salvage approach as alternative to metal resurfacing: Results at minimum 10 years of follow-up.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2025Article
- Effective Feature Extraction for Knee Osteoarthritis Detection on X-ray Images using Convolutional Neural Networks.Current medical imaging · 2025Article
- The Estimation of Knee Medial Force with Substitution Parameters during Walking and Turning.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Predictors of Long-term Patient-Reported Outcome Measures After Collagen Meniscal Implant for Partial Meniscal Defects.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2024Article
- Knee temperature remains abnormal in patients successfully treated with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: An infrared thermography analysis.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2024Article
- Management of Medial Femorotibial Knee Osteoarthritis in Conjunction with Anterior Cruciate Ligament Deficiency: Technical Note and Literature Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- A Short-Term Evaluation of Foot Pronation Tendency in Healthy Recreational Runners.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Intra-articular injections in sport-active patients with degenerative cartilage lesions or osteoarthritis of the knee: a systematic review.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2023Review
- Ultrasonographic echo intensity in the medial femoral cartilage is enhanced prior to cartilage thinning in women with early mild knee osteoarthritis.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Long-Term Outcome and Athletic Level following Operative Treatment for Osteochondritis Dissecans of the Knee in Pediatric and Adolescent Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Gender related results in total knee arthroplasty: a 15-year evaluation of the Italian population.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2023Article
- Effects of step lengths on biomechanical characteristics of lower extremity during split squat movement.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Sports activities are considered favourable for general health; nevertheless, a possible influence of sports practice on the development of early osteoarthritis (OA) is a cause for concern. A higher incidence of OA in knees and ankles of former high-impact sports players than in those of the normal population has been shown and it is still debatable whether the cause is either to be recognized generically in the higher number of injuries or in a joint overload. The possibility to address knee OA in its early phases may be strictly connected to the modification of specific extrinsic or intrinsic factors, related to the patient in order to save the joint from further disease progression; these include sport practice, equipment and load. Non-surgical therapies such as continuative muscles reinforce and training play a strong role in the care of athletes with early OA, particularly if professional. There is an overall agreement on the need of an early restoring of a proper meniscal, ligament and cartilage integrity in order to protect the knee and resume sports safely, whereas alignment is a point still strongly debatable especially for professional athletes. Remaining questions still to be answered are the risks of different sports in relation to one another, although an actual protective effect of low-impact sports, such as walking, swimming or cycling, has been recognized on the appearance or worsening of OA, the effect of continuing or ceasing to practice a sport on the natural history of early OA, and even following appropriate treatment is still unknown.
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