Efficacy of Different Acupuncture Techniques for Pain and Dysfunction in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Various acupuncture techniques are widely applied in clinics for pain control and dysfunction relief in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA). The purpose of this trial was to investigate whether the different acupuncture techniques were more effective in treating joint pain and dysfunction than were sham acupuncture or drug treatment in patients with KOA and to determine the differences in efficacy among them.

Methods

In this multi-center, single-blind, randomized, controlled trial, participants were randomly assigned to the manual acupuncture (MA), electroacupuncture (EA), warm-needling acupuncture (WA), mild moxibustion (MM), sham acupuncture (SA), or drug treatment (Celebrex) groups. Each participant in the above groups received individual treatments for 4

SUBMITTER: Sun J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11914559 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature