The biomechanical effectiveness of the Taichi exercise in the management of knee OA: a randomized controlled trial.
- Conditions
- Knee OA
- Registration Number
- ITMCTR2000003353
- Lead Sponsor
- Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
The diagnostic criteria of KOA refer to the guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of osteoarthritis (2018 edition) formulated by the Chinese society of traditional Chinese medicine in 2018.
(1) repeated pain in past one month;
(2) X-ray film (standing position or weight-bearing position) showed knee joint space narrowing, subchondral osteosclerosis and/or cystic change, osteophyte formation at joint edge;
(3) Aged 40-70 years;
(4) The morning stiffness time <=30min;
(5) With bone friction sound (feeling).
Meet (1) + any 2 of (2), (3), (4), (5) iteams can be diagnosed as knee osteoarthritis.
1. Previous hip/knee replacement surgery or planning to undergo hip/knee surgery during the trial;
2. Patients with knee joint tumor, tuberculosis, suppuration and disease affecting joint structure and function;
3. Patients with diseases that hinder participation in and influence the completion of the study, such as myocardial infarction or stroke, congestive failure, severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, diabetes, severe systemic disease, and severe mental illness in the past three months;
4. Any test drugs being used in the past 30 days;
5. at the same time to participate in other clinical trials, unable to complete the instruments.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method WOMAC scale;
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method muscle co-conrtaction;kinetics data of the knee;kinematics data of the knee;