Diagnosis and Management of Musculoskeletal Diseases

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on musculoskeletal diseases explores their pathogenesis, emphasizing genetic predispositions, environmental factors, and lifestyle choices in disease onset. It details advances in pathological diagnosis, including high-resolution imaging, muscle biopsy, biomarkers, and genetic testing. The integration of clinical, imaging, and pathological findings is crucial for accurate diagnosis and tailored management plans. Multidisciplinary collaboration among specialists is highlighted to improve patient outcomes and quality of life. We have the pleasure to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue. Original research articles, reviews, short communications, and interesting images are welcome, as well as either clinical or basic research. All papers will be fully open access upon publication after peer review.

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Keywords

  • musculoskeletal diseases
  • pathological diagnosis
  • high-resolution imaging
  • muscle biopsy
  • biomarkers
  • genetic testing

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Are Extracorporeal Shock Waves Just a Therapeutic Tool?
by Bernardo Gialanella, Laura Comini, Gian Pietro Bonometti, Fabio Vanoglio, Andrea Bettinsoli, Raffaele Santoro, Adriana Olivares and Alberto Luisa
Diagnostics 2024, 14(21), 2440; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14212440 - 31 Oct 2024
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Background: Focused extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) has been successfully used to treat musculoskeletal conditions, but ESWT stimulates nociceptors, causing pain deep in the tissue during treatment. The occurrence of pain during ESWT is a side effect, but it can help identify painful [...] Read more.
Background: Focused extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) has been successfully used to treat musculoskeletal conditions, but ESWT stimulates nociceptors, causing pain deep in the tissue during treatment. The occurrence of pain during ESWT is a side effect, but it can help identify painful sites and assess minimum (MiTI) and maximum (MaTI) pain thresholds to ESWT pressure stimuli. This topic has received limited attention in literature. Methods: This observational study describes a specific approach to using ESWT to study pain in 71 patients. The approach proposes moving the ESWT transducer head of the device over the entire joint surface, progressively increasing the energy level until the patient experiences pain. Results: In the study, MiTI and MaTI were 0.218 ± 0.090 and 0.416 ± 0.165 mJ/mm2 in the affected joint and 0.282 ± 0.128 and 0.501 ± 0.174 mJ/mm2 in the contralateral homologous healthy joint, being significantly lower in the affected joint (MiTI: p < 0.001 and MaTI: p = 0.003, respectively). ESWT induced pain in 94.37% of the sites with the highest subjective pain and in a greater number of sites (204) than digital pressure (123) (p < 0.001). All sites with digital pressure pain also had ESWT pain. Conclusions: These results suggest that the ESWT device may be useful in investigating pain in musculoskeletal conditions and tailoring therapy. Full article
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