Theoretic Study on Diagnosis and Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis with Pain as Pivot and Truncating and Reversing

VernacularTitle:以痛为枢、截断扭转诊治膝骨关节炎理论研究
Author: Pei-Min WANG ¹ ; Run-Lin XING
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1. 南京中医药大学附属医院
Keywords: knee osteoarthritis; pain as pivot; truncating and reversing; combination of cold and heat
From: Journal of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2016;32(6):501-505
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Knee osteoarthritis(KOA)is a common disease in the elderly.Pain,the most common symptom of KOA,is seen in more than 65% of the patients as main manifestation in clinic.At present,there is no clear pathogenesis and specific treat-ment of KOA.Conservative treatment,mainly including the control of inflammation and delay of cartilage degeneration,is for controlling pain and other clinical symptoms.KOA belongs to "Bone Bi" and "Bi syndrome" of traditional Chinese medicine. By reviewing the literature on the treatment experience of KOA in orthopedics and traumatology of TCM and combining the ex-perience of department of orthopedics and traumatology in our hospital,diagnostic and therapeutic ideology centered by the control of intractable pain of KOA is put forward with the therapeutic system guided by the concept of truncating and reversing and the combination of cold and heat.