Knee Osteoarthritis
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (1) KOA patients who meet the diagnostic criteria of Western medicine and TCM dialectical classification; (2) Patients who are willing to accept conservative treatment; (3) Informed consent, voluntary subjects, and those who signed the informed consent form.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: (1) mentally ill patients; (2) Patients who cannot understand, cannot accurately express, or cannot complete follow-up due to other irresistible factors; (3) Patients who have undergone KOA surgery on the affected side (received arthroscopic surgery within 2 years); (4) Those with a history of opioid analgesics, sedative-hypnotics and alcohol abuse; (5) Other diseases of the knee joint, such as tuberculosis of the knee joint, tumors, infectious diseases of the knee joint, such as suppurative knee arthritis or osteomyelitis, recent history (within 2-3 weeks) of knee joint trauma; damage to the skin around the joint , patients with vascular nerve injury; (6) Patients participating in this study during the study period cannot participate in other KOA-related studies.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| KOA recurrence frequency;annual recurrence rate;knee replacement surgery time;Mean time between relapses within 2 years; | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| IL-1ß;lymphatic clearance rate around the knee joint;IL-6;WOMAC scale;VAS score;Lequesne Index;Plantar pressure parameters; | — |
Countries
China