Muscle and Osteoarthritis Joint Status: Current Research Highlights and Their Implications

To examine the degree to which current research focuses specifically on muscle in the context of osteoarthritis, data embedded in peer reviewed English language publications containing the key words, osteoarthritis and muscle, and others, based on prior work in this realm were sought. The time periods covered were largely limited to those publications reported between June 2015 and April 2017, given available prior comprehensive analyses on this topic [eg. 5-8]. Data bases employed were: PUBMED and Web of Science. Results were limited to clinical non-experimental studies that assessed some form of muscle quality or structural property in the context of osteoarthritis. Excluded were animal models, as an appropriate replicable animal model of osteoarthritis and relevant muscle