Cervical Osteoarthritis
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1. Prevalencia de sinais e sintomas otologicos em portadores de espondilose cervical / Prevalence of signs and symptoms in patients with cervical spondylosis
The osteoarthiris (OA) is the most common rheumatologic disease and cervical spondylosis is the OA on the cervical spine. It has been well studied in the past few years, mainly due to its high prevalence, as well as the costs to the health systems all over the world. The great majority of those studies have been focusing on its pathophysiologic aspects, etio
Publicado em: 2006
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2. Epidemiology of osteoarthritis: Zoetermeer survey. Comparison of radiological osteoarthritis in a Dutch population with that in 10 other populations.
The prevalence of mild and severe radiological osteoarthritis was investigated in a random sample of 6585 inhabitants of a Dutch village. Radiographs were graded 0-4 according to the criteria described by Kellgren and Lawrence. The prevalence of radiological osteoarthritis increased strongly with age and was highest for cervical spine (peak: men 84.8%, women
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3. On the concept of third occipital headache.
One of the putative causes of headache is osteoarthritis of the C2-3 zygapophysial joint. A technique for blocking the third occipital nerve which innervates this joint was devised and used as a screening procedure for headache mediated by this nerve. Seven out of ten consecutive patients presenting with suspected cervical headache were found to suffer pain