ZHONGHUA YANGSHENG BAOJIAN ›› 2024, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (19): 65-68.

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Clinical Research Progress of External Treatment of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis

LIAN Yi-Feng1,2, XU Hui1,2,*, BIAN Yan-Qin3, WANG Zheng1,2, WANG Zhen1,2   

  1. 1. College of Acupuncture and Tuina, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou Henan 450046, China;
    2. Tuina Department, Third Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou Henan 450003, China;
    3. Orthopedic Research Laborator, University of California Davis, Davis California 95616, USA
  • Online:2024-10-01 Published:2024-09-25

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Abstract: Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is one of the common degenerative bone and joint diseases. Its causes are complex, and it has the characteristics of high incidence and high disability rate. External treatment of traditional Chinese medicine is one of the important methods to intervene koa in clinic. It has significant curative effect in relieving pain, improving knee joint mobility, reducing inflammatory reaction and so on. This paper summarizes the relevant research literature of KOA in recent years, and finds that the external treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine are diverse, often in the form of combined treatment. At present, there are some shortcomings in the related research of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of KOA, such as small sample size, less follow-up, lack of objective evaluation indicators, etc. we should further adopt a more rigorous randomized controlled trial design, and we can clarify the treatment effect by applying evaluation indicators such as pressure pain threshold.

Key words: knee osteoarthritis, external treatment of traditional Chinese Medicine, research progress, clinical

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