Effectiveness of Yijinjing exercise in the treatment of early-stage knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is still a challenging degenerative joint disease with high morbidity and disease burden. Early-stage KOA, the focus of this study, could present a Window of Opportunity to arrest the disease process and reduce the disease burden. Yijinjing exercise is an important part of physical and psychological therapies in Traditional Chinese Exercise and may be an effective treatment. However, there is no clinical efficacy assessment of Yijinjing exercise for patients with early-stage KOA. Therefore, we designed a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of Yijinjing exercise on patients with early-stage KOA.

Methods and analysis

This is a parallel-design, two-arm, analyst assessor-blinded, randomised controlled trial. In total,

SUBMITTER: Guo G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10921529 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature