International Journal of Orthopaedics Research(IJOR)
ISSN: 2690-9189 | DOI: 10.33140/IJOR
Impact Factor: 1.6
João Pedro Brandão Wantuil
Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, HBDFHospital de Base do Distrito Federal, Brazil
Publications
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Research Article
Non-Surgical and Surgical Treatment of Chronic Pain in Older Adults with Unilateral or Index-Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review
Author(s): João Pedro Brandão Wantuil*, Fillipo Leite Prazeres, Giovani Jose Coury Costa and Lucas Tavares Domingos
Background: Treatment of chronic knee osteoarthritis pain in older adults spans education, exercise, medication, injections, osteotomy and arthroplasty. Trials studying unilateral disease or bilateral disease assessed through an index knee are under-represented and rarely synthesized across the full treatment pathway. Methods: PubMed, the MEDLINE-indexed subset of PubMed, Google Scholar and SciELO were searched for free- full-text original studies published from January 2015 to July 2026. Systematic reviews, meta-analyses, protocols and irrelevant reports were excluded. A PICO framework guided eligibility. Non-surgical pain outcomes were pooled when clinically comparable; surgical evidence was synthesized narratively because interventions, comparators and outcomes were heterogeneous. Results: Twenty-seven studies w.. Read More»