Open AccessPatients Older Than 40 Years With Unilateral Occupational Claims for New Shoulder and Knee Symptoms Have Bilateral MRI Changes
Author(s) -
Tiffany C. Liu,
Nina Leung,
Leonard W. Edwards,
David Ring,
Edward J. Bernacki,
M. Tonn
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.178
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1007/s11999-017-5401-y
Subject(s) - medicine , asymptomatic , abnormality , physical therapy , pathophysiology , logistic regression , magnetic resonance imaging , knee joint , physical medicine and rehabilitation , radiology , surgery , psychiatry
Minor events that occur in the workplace sometimes are evaluated with MRI, which may reveal age-related changes in the symptomatic body part. These age-related changes are often ascribed to the event. However, evidence of similar or worse pathophysiology in the contralateral joint would suggest that the symptoms might be new, but the pathophysiology is not.