Early knee osteoarthritis
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Meet the above diagnostic criteria; 2. Pain around the knee was the main manifestation (left and right were not limited); 3. Aged 40-70 years, regardless of gender; 4. The course of disease is more than 1 year and less than 5 years; 5. Kellgren-Lawrence grade I-III, clinical stage early stage; 6. Voluntary abandonment of other drugs, physical therapy and other therapeutic means during treatment; 7. Patients who can tolerate and agree to needle knife treatment or intra-articular injection of sodium hyaluronate; 8. Those who can cooperate with the examination, insist on treatment, and cooperate with the observation of curative effect and complete follow-up; 9. Voluntary signing of the informed consent form and strict compliance with the investigator.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients with KOA caused by trauma; 2. Knee joint diseases such as meniscus injury; 3. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic immune arthritis, gout and Kashin-Beck disease; 4. Patients with serious primary diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, hematological system and malignant tumors; 5. Patients with acute or chronic infection of skin around knee joint; 6. Pregnant women or people allergic to sodium hyaluronate injection; 7. Serious mental illness.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Isokinetic muscle strength test;Western Ontario and McMaster University Osteoarthritis Index Score;Visual analogue scale for pain; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Gansu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine