Comparing the Effects of Corticosteroid Injections and Resistance Exercise on Knee Osteoarthritis Patients: A Systematic Review.

Purpose: To evaluate research on the effectiveness of intra-articular corticosteroids injections compared with resistance exercise on pain, stiffness, and function among patients diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis.

Methods: Using the PRISMA guidelines, the authors performed a systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in PubMed and EBSCOhost published between January 2012 and October 2022. The authors used keywords to identify studies.

Mandatory COVID Vaccination: Perspectives from Graduate Allied Health Students at a Mid-size University in the United States.

Because many students enrolled in Allied Health programs are on track to becoming health practitioners or clinicians and frontline workers who would become critical sources of information for patients it is critical to understand their perspectives about mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. Results: COVID-19 Risk Perception. A significant majority of the respondents had high or strongly high-risk perception of COVID-19, 82(56.