More studies showing medical imaging doesn’t correlate with pain.

This time they looked over 32 studies on osteoarthritis and dancers.

They found:

“The first metatarsophalangeal joint had the highest prevalence of radiographic OA (59%). The prevalence of symptomatic OA was low (3%). The ankle (radiographic OA 41%) and then the hip (radiographic OA 19%) joint were the next most common regions to report imaging findings, with a lower prevalence of symptomatic OA seen at the ankle (2%) to pool 2 studies and hip (8%) to pool 4 studies.”

In layman terms, even though OA showed up on the x-rays, there was rarely pain.

Luckily the body is very resilient and has many ways to overcome these normal structural changes that occur in life

The study:

https://www.jospt.org/doi/abs/10.2519/jospt.2025.12918?journalCode=jospt