Effects of needle knife relaxing therapy on tension of local soft tissue and pain of osteoarthritis of knee.
- Author:
Gui-Gang ZENG
1
;
Xiu-Fen ZHANG
;
Wu-Cheng QUAN
;
Yong-Yun FU
;
Wei-Lan TAN
;
Yi QIN
;
Qing-Guo LIU
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH: Acupuncture Therapy; methods; Adult; Aged; Arthralgia; therapy; Female; Humans; Male; Medicine, Chinese Traditional; Middle Aged; Needles; Osteoarthritis, Knee; therapy; Pain Measurement; Pressure
- From: Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion 2008;28(4):244-247
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVETo probe into the mechanism and methods of needle knife relaxing therapy for treatment of osteoarthritis of knee from biomechanical view.
METHODSNeedle 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.
RESULTSL500 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.
CONCLUSIONThere 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 traction syndrome by relaxing the local contracted, adhesive soft tissue, so as to relieve tension pain and finally recover internal force equilibrium of the knee joint.
