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A Randomized, Controlled, Double-blind, Multicenter Clinical Study of the Electroacupuncture Treatment on Muscle and Bone Balance of Knee Osteoarthritis

Not Applicable
Conditions
Knee Osteoarthritis
Registration Number
ITMCTR2000003638
Lead Sponsor
Shanghai Longhua Hospital
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Pending
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients who meet the western medicine diagnostic criteria of knee osteoarthritis;
2. Aged between 50 and 75 years;
3. Patients in line the level of radiological classification for knee osteoarthritis degeneration;
4. Patients who did not use glucocorticoid via oral administration or intramuscular, articular, or soft tissue injection four weeks before accepting the test agent;
5. Patients who signed the informed consent and ensured the compliance.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patients with long-term oral administration of agents for knee osteoarthritis, and still in the drug effect period, without elution;
2. Patients with severe heart, brain, liver, kidney or lung dysfunction;
3. Patients with other knee diseases found in arthroscopic surgery;
4. Patients who have accepted other relevant treatments, which may affect the observation on the effects of this study;
5. Patients with mental illness;
6. Patients with coagulation dysfunction;
7. Patients with articular surgical treatment;
8. Patients with an indication for joint surgery
9. Patients with a history of abuse of opioid analgesics, sedative hypnotics or alcohol;
10. Patients with poor compliance, who were unable to meet the requirements for follow-up.
11. Pregnant and lactating women.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional study
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
equesne index;VAS score;Six-minute walking test;WOMAC;The Medical Outcomes Study short form health survey-36;
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
ltrasound of the knee joint;3D Gait Analysis;Proteome resequencing: peripheral blood.;Isometric muscle strength test;Knee CT;NIR-ICG near-infrared detection;inguinal lymph node ultrasound;
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