As regular readers of this back pain information blog will know, although I do concentrate on back pain, due to my personal history (see about me over on the right there) I do have an interest in knee problems also.
So for those of you that also have knee pain you may be interested in this very interesting story I found by Roger Dobson on the Daily Mail website.
Joints, and knees in particular, make noises when they move. Usually we do not hear them, and the noises a healthy joint makes are different to the noises made by a knee suffering from osteoarthritis.
Professor John Goodacre, of Lancaster University’s new School of Health and Medicine, is one of the developers of a new machine designed to listen to knee joints and detect the early signs of osteoarthritis in just a few minutes.
The technique, known as acoustic emission, has been used in the past by engineers to detect faults in bridges and aeroplanes, but has been refined by Professor Goodacre and his colleagues to the point where it is now becoming a valuable diagnostic tool. Until now there has been no reliable test for early diagnosis of osteoarthritis of the knees.
Perhaps if this had been available a few years ago I might have hung on to my own knees a little longer. Read the full story here.
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