Effects of needle knife relaxing therapy on tension of local soft tissue and pain of osteoarthritis of knee

To probe into the mechanism and methods of needle knife relaxing therapy for treatment of osteoarthritis of knee from biomechanical view. Needle knife relaxing therapy was given to 92 pain points around the knee joint in 14 cases of osteoarthritis of knee, and the displacement of the local pain poin...

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Published inZhōngguó zhēnjiǔ Vol. 28; no. 4; p. 244
Main Authors Zeng, Gui-Gang, Zhang, Xiu-Fen, Quan, Wu-Cheng, Fu, Yong-Yun, Tan, Wei-Lan, Qin, Yi, Liu, Qing-Guo
Format Journal Article
LanguageChinese
Published China 01.04.2008
Subjects
Acupuncture Therapy - methods
Adult
Aged
Arthralgia - therapy
Female
Humans
Male
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Middle Aged
Needles
Osteoarthritis, Knee - therapy
Pain Measurement
Pressure
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Summary:To probe into the mechanism and methods of needle knife relaxing therapy for treatment of osteoarthritis of knee from biomechanical view. Needle knife relaxing therapy was given to 92 pain points around the knee joint in 14 cases of osteoarthritis of knee, and the displacement of the local pain point under the stress of 500 g (L500 g) was measured and the VAS scores were recorded before and after treatment. L500 g of the pain point was (4.72+/-1.03) mm before treatment and (5.39+/-1.01) mm after treatment with a very significant difference before and after treatment (P<0.01), and VAS score was (7.10+/-1.49) points before treatment and (1.49+/-1.24) points after treatment with a very significant difference before and after treatment (P<0.01), and there was a linear correlation between the changes of L500 g and VAS scores. There was close connection between the local pain and tension of local soft tissue in knee osteoarthritis. The needle knife relaxing therapy can relieve the neurovascular compression or tract
ISSN:0255-2930