| backgroundKnee osteoarthritis (OA) is a kind of articular cartilage degeneration in bone hyperplasia, destruction, and features of chronic arthritis. Also called proliferative knee arthritis, senile knee arthritis. At present, the medicine for knee osteoarthritis no effective cure method, can only use drug pain, or surgery, drug analgesic side-effects, surgery, all risk is not the best method. The side effects of TCM therapy, acupuncture treatment less knees arthritis have better analgesic effect.objectiveEvaluate its accept 2 weeks treatment efficacy and safety to acupuncture treatment of preliminary observation balance knees arthritis, better the clinical curative effect of patients a better quality of life.MethodsWill comply with the inclusion criteria Balance acupuncture patients into treatment group and control group, Balance acupuncture 64 cases, each group of each 32 cases. Balance acupuncture treatment group painful knee by healers who take the needle into the hole, so with fluctuation mention meddling in the law after Massachusetts, to appear after bilge needle sense radioactive can a needle. Every day 1, treatment two weeks or more. And Balance acupuncture controls the ordinary acupuncture therapy with conventional. Both groups respectively in before and after the treatment of TCM symptoms integral scale investigation. Treatment ended, carries on the data arrangement statistical processing, judge therapeutic effect. ResultBalance acupuncture treatment groups before treatment for symptom scores 0.67, plus or minus 6.25 after treatment for symptom scores, and treatment 3.90+ 1.47 compared before was statistically significant (P<0.05). The control group therapy for former symptom scores 6.40+0.84 for symptom scores, after treatment with 4.84+0.85 before treatment, compared to a statistically significant (P<0.05). Show Balance acupuncture in treatment group and control group knees arthritis overall symptoms have curative effect.The analysis of pain intensity, Balance acupuncture treatment group therapy for pain points before 6.31+0.92, after treatment, a 3.22+1.45 for difference was statistically significant before contrast group (P<0.05), shows the share Balance acupuncture, patients have improvement; pain While the control group before treatment 6.40+0.95 for pain points, after treatment for 4.84+1.17, compared with before treatment difference was statistically significant (P<0.05), shows that this group of patients pain have improved.Conclusion1. Balance acupuncture and method of traditional acupuncture treatment of knee osteoarthritis have the same effective; But Balance acupuncture choose acupuncture point, not less, fast Lien acupuncture, compared to the traditional acupuncture is simple, therefore, in patients from sexual medical Balance acupuncture therapy, acupuncture may be less than the traditional method is high.2. Balance acupuncture treatment of knee osteoarthritis have certain curative effect, reduce their pain, improve patients with functional activities. |