Knee Osteoarthritis
Conditions
Interventions
Short Wave Group:Short Wave
FSN Group:Fu's Subcutaneous Needling
Sponsors
Kiang Wu Hospital of Macau
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
50 Years to 80 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (1) Fulfillment of diagnostic criteria for primary unilateral knee osteoarthritis; (2) Knee osteoarthritis staging assessed as early to mid-stage; (3) Aged between 50 and 80 years; (4) Those who have not taken other medication and other modalities of treatment in the last 1 month; (5) BMI 3; (7) Patients with spontaneous pain in the affected knee joint and hard knots and striations in the target muscles on palpation; (8) Voluntary and capable of signing an informed consent form.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: (1) Non-primary knee osteoarthritis such as gouty arthritis hemophilic arthritis etc.; those who have structural damage to the knee joint due to severe violence (e.g. automobile accidents or falling from height); (2) Those who have used knee osteoarthritis related medication and Chinese medicine internal and external treatments in the last 1 month which affects the judgment of the study results; (3) Those who have had knee surgery in the last 6 months; (4) Those who also have other diseases with lower limb pain such as lumbar disc herniation lumbar spinal stenosis; combined with lower limb vascular lesions; (5) Uncontrolled and/or undiagnosed medical conditions that may interfere with or affect the study treatment such as severe liver kidney heart or brain disease; uncontrolled or untreated hypertension (systolic blood pressure >160 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure >100 mmHg) uncontrolled or untreated diabetes mellitus malnutrition or hyperthyroidism; or uncontrolled psychiatric disorders; (6) Those who refuse or are unable to receive rehabilitation therapy such as fsn therapy or short wave; (7) People with leukemia thrombocytopenia and other bleeding tendency; (8) Serious systemic or localized skin diseases of the lower limbs.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Visual analogue Scales; | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| knee flexion and extension muscle strength;knee joint active mobility;the western Ontario and McMaster universities osteoarthritis index; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactDejian Lu
Kiang Wu Hospital
Outcome results
None listed