The effects of small-needle-knife therapy on pain and mobility from knee osteoarthritis: a pilot randomized-controlled study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the effect of small needle-knife therapy in people with painful knee osteoarthritis.

Design

Pilot randomised, controlled trial.

Setting

Rehabilitation hospital.

Subjects

In-patients with osteo-arthritis of the knee.

Interventions

Either 1 to 3 small needle-knife treatments over seven days or oral Celecoxib. All patients stayed in hospital three weeks, receiving the same mobility-focused rehabilitation.

Measures

Oxford Knee Score (OKS), gait speed and kinematics were recorded at baseline, at three weeks (discharge) and at three-months (OKS only). Withdrawal from the study, and adverse events associated with the small needle knife therapy were recorded.

Results

83 patients were randomized: 44 into the control group, o

SUBMITTER: Zhu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7649921 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature