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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 7 Combined Chinese and Western medicine treatment of knee osteoarthritis [Keywords:] arthritis Knee osteoarthritis is a common disease in the elderly, and frequently-occurring disease, mainly manifested as knee swelling, deformity, pain, stiffness and dysfunction, seriously affecting the health and quality of life of elderly people, many of the current treatment methods, the effect of various different, since the 2003 and 2007, we have adopted the method of combination Chinese and Western medicine treatment, to obtain satisfactory results, is the final report is as follows. 1 Data and methods 1.1 General information on 86 cases in this group of patients, male 31 cases, female 55 cases, aged 42 to 81 years, with an average age of 57. Symptoms and signs: The group of patients had events pain, tenderness, swelling, stiffness and dysfunction. Imaging examination: the edge of varying degrees of articular bone hyperplasia, 28 of them See, for example, under the joint surface cartilage bone sclerosis, 48 See, for example joint space narrowing, 21 patients with osteoporosis, 19 patients had knee varus, 8 cases of loose bodies within the relevant sections. 43 cases in which pairs of knee joint. All the cases are in line with the U.S. rheumatism Association (ACR) 2000, proposed the diagnostic criteria of knee osteoarthritis. 1.2 Treatment 1.2.1 Massage bars of appropriate pull reasonable extension traction, the rolling, kneading, kneading, rubbing the muscles around the knee, ligament, joint capsule, and then for flexion and extension, transfer the knee, the way from the light to heavy, step by step, the patient can be subject to endure, some acute, inflammation heavier, more intense pain patients are not the way of early massage, can be thoroughly oral anti-inflammatory pain medicines, such as Voltaren tablets and so on. 1.2.2 Physical Therapy we use electromagnetic therapeutic apparatus (TDP) to the knee joint local irradiation 20 ~ 30min,