Needle Knife Treatment Of Osteoarthritis Of The Knee Controlled Clinical Study

Knee osteoarthritis is one of the most commonly encountered orthopaedics diseases which is especially common to the olds. With the aggravation of population aging, incidence of knee osteoarthritis has been increasing rapidly. It is jeopardizing the olds. The sufferers show knee ache and weakness, ascending difficulty,knee ankylosis and malformation. When there is acute synovitis, knee can be rubefaction, swell, heat and pain. More people consider that knee osteoarthritis is the unbalance of anabolism and catabolism among cartilage cell, cartilage matrix, subcartilaginous bone.This research consists a summary of clinical literature and results obtained from clinical observationIn the document reviews, the morden medicine and traditional Chinese medicine comprehension to knee osteoarthritis is discussed. Morden reseach on knee osteoarthritis is summarized from etiology, pathology, pathogency, treatment. At the same time, actuality of Chinese medicine treatment to knee osteoarthritis is reviewed. From the fruits of recent years, the balance of joint stress is discussed deeply. Balance of joint stress is considered one of the most important factors in the pathogency.The aim is to observe the effect of treating knee osteoarthritis with acupotomy and compare it with electric needle, to find weather there is difference and what about the difference.At the same time, we try to explain the mechanism of knee osteoarthritis. Randomization, comparison is used.Acupotomy group is observed group and electric needle is contral group.There are 24 cases in every group. The cases were brought in through the standard about osteoarthritis of American rheumatism association.The result is: (1) By treatment of 4 weeks, two groups get the same short-term significant effect.(2) The effect degree is related to therapeutics and observed group is better than electric needle significantly. (3) Self compare of index mark before and after treatment: the marks of pain, joint ankylosis, function, tenderness, swell, joint mobility decrease siginificantly all; Difference of index mark of pain, joint ankylosis, function, tenderness, swell between observed group and contral group is insignificantly. The effect of observed group on joint mobility mark is better than control group significantly. Through the reseach we consider the short-term effect of treating knee osteoarthritis with acupotomy is favorable. And the therapeutics is worthy to be studied deeply.