Repertorial approach of treating chronic knee pain with individualized homoeopathic medicines: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled efficacy trial

D N De Homoeopathic Medical College Hospital0 个研究点目标入组 134 人开始时间: 待定最近更新: 2023年7月25日

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•1. Patient suffering from knee pain
•2. Age 18-65years
•3. Patients of either sex
•4. Suffering from chronic knee pain for more than 3 months â?? osteoarthritis, inflammatory joint diseases, specific arthropathies, hyperuricemia and/or gout, etc.
•5. Differential diagnosis established by investigation (X â??Ray, USG and other laboratory investigations as appropriate)
•6. Patients already undergoing regular oral or topical analgesics or NSAID therapy for painful knee provided the medications are stopped completely at least 2 weeks prior study entry.
•7. Literate patients; ability to read and write in Bengali, Hindi or English capability and willingness to give informed consent and to comply with the study procedure

•1. Severe degeneration of knee joint with marked joint narrowing, varus, or valgus deformity of knee ( >12Â°), evidenced by imaging or other evidences and requiring surgical intervention, joint or skin infections, joint prostheses of the lower limbs
•2. Non-ambulant patients
•3. Self-reported joint disorders other than osteoarthritis
•4. Intra-articular injections within 2 weeks before study entry
•5. Transplanted knees and Recent significant knee surgery within last 6 months
•6. Benign tumours and malignant tumours.
•7. Hemarthrosis : von Willebrand disease, haemophilia, sickle cell disease.
•8. Septic-arthritis, osteomyelitis, ruptured popliteal cyst.
•9. Vulnerable population - unconscious, ambulatory, too sick for consultation, differently abled, terminally or critically ill-patients, mentally incompetent people
•10. Diagnosed cases of unstable mental or psychiatric illness or other uncontrolled or life-threatening illness affecting quality of life
•11. Pregnancy and puerperal women and lactating mother.
•12. Patient under tobacco chewing and/or smoking, alcoholism and/or any other form(s) of substance abuse and/or dependence.
•13. Self-reported immune-compromised state, and
•14. Undergoing homoeopathic treatment for any chronic disease within last 6 months.

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