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Research Archive
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ACUPUNCTURE & KNEE ARTHRITIS
Categories: Knee
The longest and largest randomised, controlled phase III clinical trial of acupuncture ever conducted has found that acupuncture can significantly improve the symptoms of arthritis of the knee. The study of 570 patients was carried out at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The patients were randomly assigned to receive 23 treatments of either true or sham (no actual insertion of needle ...
ACUPUNCTURE EFFECTIVE FOR KNEE ARTHRITIS
Categories: Knee
In a study of the treatment of chronic arthritis of the knee, 150 patients were assigned to receive ‘true’ acupuncture, 76 to minimal acupuncture (superficial needling at non-acupuncture points) and 76 to a waiting list control.
ACUPUNCTURE & KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS
Categories: Knee
Another German trial has shown a significant benefit for acupuncture treatment (in this case in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee), yet with no significant difference between true and sham acupuncture. In this large trial of 1007 patients (treated by 320 different practitioners in 315 primary care practices), who had had chronic pain from knee arthritis for over six months, a minimum 36% ...
OPTIMAL ACUPUNCTURE FOR KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS
Categories: Knee
A review of recent research into acupuncture treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee explores whether any aspects of treatment are more likely to be associated with good outcomes. Based on their evaluation of four recent randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and a systematic review (which included 13 RCTs), the authors speculate that optimal results from acupuncture treatment for OA of the kne ...
ACUPUNCTURE FOR OSTEOARTHRITIS OF THE KNEE
Categories: Knee
A meta-analysis by American researchers has evaluated the effects of acupuncture in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis (OA). Biomedical databases were searched for randomised controlled trials (RCTs), longer than six weeks in duration, which compared needle acupuncture with sham, usual care, or a waiting list control group. Eleven trials met the selection criteria and nine reported sufficient da ...
ACUPUNCTURE EFFECTIVE FOR KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS
Categories: Knee
A review, carried out by American researchers, of ten randomised, controlled trials (1456 participants) of acupuncture for osteoarthritis of the knee have concluded that it is an effective treatment for the pain and physical dysfunction caused by the condition. (Acupuncture and osteoarthritis of the knee: a review of randomized, controlled trials. Fam Community Health. 2008 Jul-Sep;31(3):247-54).
ACUPUNCTURE IMPROVES SYMPTOMS OF KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS
Categories: Knee
A blinded randomised trial of acupuncture has compared the effect of acupuncture with that of a non-penetrating sham in patients with osteoarthritic knee pain. Sixty-eight acupuncture naïve patients with symptomatic and radiological evidence of osteoarthritis of the knee were randomly allocated to a course of either acupuncture or non-penetrating sham acupuncture using a sheathed 'placebo' needle ...
ACUPUNCTURE IMPROVES CHRONIC KNEE PAIN
Categories: Knee
A meta-analysis has evaluated the effects of acupuncture on pain and function in patients with chronic knee pain. Combining data from five randomised controlled studies judged to have high validity (1334 patients), acupuncture was found to be superior to sham acupuncture for both pain and function. The differences were still significant at long-term follow-up. (Acupuncture treatment for chronic kn ...
ACUPUNCTURE DELAYED EFFECT IN KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS
Categories: Knee
An RCT carried out in Israel has assessed the efficacy of acupuncture in providing improved function and pain relief when used as an adjunctive therapy to standard care in elderly patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Fifty-five patients were randomly divided into an intervention group that received eight weeks of biweekly acupuncture treatment and a control group that received sham acupu ...
ACUPUNCTURE IMPROVES KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS
Categories: Knee
Research from a team in Pakistan has shown that improvement in subjective measures of pain in knee osteoarthritis after electro-acupuncture (EA) was correlated with changes in biomarkers associated with stress and pain. Forty patients aged 40 years and over received ten daily 25 minute sessions of either EA (with points selected according to TCM theory) or sham acupuncture (with needles inserted a ...
ACUPUNCTURE FOR HIP AND KNEE ARTHRITIS
A large German trial has found that acupuncture is of significant benefit in controlling the pain of osteoarthritis of the hip and knee.
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