Acupotomy for postoperative hypertrophic scar pain and pruritus after total knee arthroplasty: a randomized controlled trial
- Conditions
- Hypertrophic scar after total knee replacement
- Registration Number
- ITMCTR2100005425
- Lead Sponsor
- Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
(1) men or women aged 40–80 years; (2) patients met the diagnostic criteria of knee osteoarthritis [15]; (3) From 1 to 2 month after total knee arthroplasty, the wound healed well after suture removal, without abnormal ooze of blood or fluid; (4) Signed written informed consent.
(1) Preoperative diagnosis is not simple knee osteoarthritis, but combined with severe deformity, ligament injury around the knee, muscle strength abnormalities and other diseases; (2) Postoperative scar expands beyond the range of original lesions injured to surrounding normal skin; (3) Coagulation disorders; (4) Postoperative diagnosis is superficial incision tissue infection or deep incision tissue infection; (5) With severe physical and psychological illness that cannot coordinate the treatment; (6) Participation in other clinical researchers in the past 3 months.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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