A Multi-Center, Randomized Controlled Trial of Heat-Sensitive Moxibustion in the Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis
- Conditions
- Knee osteoarthritis
- Registration Number
- ITMCTR2000003317
- Lead Sponsor
- The Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Patients with all of the following items can be included in this trial:
1. Meet the western medicine diagnosis standard of knee osteoarthritis with knee enlargement;
2. The floating patella test was negative;
3. Clinical symptom score >= 5;
4. Aged 40-70 years, male and female unlimited;
5. The patients are willing to accept the treatment prescribed by the subject;
6. There is acupoint heat sensitivity in the knee joint area (in the area composed of yinlingquan Yanglingquan Liangqiu Xuehai points).
Those with one of the following items shall not be included in the test:
1. Pregnant or lactating women;
2. The patients with primary diseases such as cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, liver, kidney, hematopoietic system and other serious life-threatening psychosis;
3. Patients who are in critical condition and are difficult to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the treatment;
4. Patients who fail to receive or complete treatment according to regulations for some reason and cannot judge the curative effect or incomplete data;
5. Patients with acute knee trauma and local skin rupture;
6. Patients with severe varus and flexion contracture.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Western Ontario and McMaster University Osteoarthritis Score, WOMC;
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Visual Analogue Scale, VAS;The MOS item short from health survey, SF-36;