Observation Of Kang Xi Tang For The Treatment Of Osteoarthritis Of Knee

Background:Knee osteoarthritis is chronic progressive joint disease for pathological features of knee cartilage degeneration and joint surrounding bone hyperplasia.Its main clinical performance is joint pain, swelling stiff and dysfunction,and it brings patients the inconvenience of life and work, even affects the quality of life seriously.With the degree of population aging increasing,incidence of osteoarthritisincreased year by year.Traditional chinese medicine attributed the disease mainly to "Gubi'In recent years,Both Chinese medicine and modern medicine have conducted more thorough research in the aspects theory and clinical of disease.Currently,Treatment of western medicine is not effective as will,meanwhile accompanied by sorts of side effects and mass of cost, gave patients has brought the spirit and economic burden,bringing about mental and economic burden. Chinese medicine treatment is more efficacious in this disease,with no obvious side effects and low-cost, is welcomed by the majority of patients in clinical.Objective:This clinical research was designed to treat osteoarthritis by the use of "Kang Xi Tang",through contrast observation,to explore its curative effect of knee osteoarthritis.Methods:42 patients from Jiangsu Province Hospital on Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine are divided into treatment group (Kang Xi Tang)with 22 cases and the control group (western medicine) with 20 cases.To observe pain and clinical efficacy before and after treatment by the use of visual analogue scale(VAS) score and Lequesne knee score.Result:Lequesne knee score,16 cases effective and 6 cases non-effective in treatment group,the total effective rate is 72.73%;in the control group,the treatment produces 18 cases effective and 2 cases non-effective,the total effective rate is 90%.In comparision,there is no significant difference in imporving the clinical efficacy(P>0.05).VAS score,3 cases significantly effective,9 cases effective and 10 cases non-effective in treatment group,the total effective rate is 54.55%; 11 cases significantly effective,7. cases effective and 2 cases non-effective in the control group,the total effective rate is 90%.In comparision,there is no significant difference in imporving the clinical efficacy(P>0.05).In comparision,there is a significant difference in relieving pain(P<0.01).Conclusion:Both "Kang Xi Tang" and western medicine(Celebrex and Liupuan) have a significant effect on relieving pain and imporving clinical symptoms for patients with knee OA.However,western medicine produces better efficacy than "Kang Xi Tang" on the knee pain of patients.