Integrative Medicinetreatment of knee osteoarthritis.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Integrative Medicinetreatment of knee osteoarthritis Knee osteoarthritis is a chronic degenerative disease. To joint pain, stiffness, swelling, limited mobility, difficulty squatting song as the main clinical manifestations. Seriously affect people’s daily life and social activities. A lot of current treatment methods, but the effects not ideal. our hospital after years of exploration, summed up a knee injection method combined with Chinese herbal fumigation Oral triple combined therapy, and after 306 572 treatment of the knee, and achieved satisfactory results, is reported as follows: 1 clinical data The group of 572 men and 42 knees in the knee, the knee 530 women, aged 32-86 years, mean 58.27 years old. 247 cases hospitalized, 478 knee, out-patient treatment of 59 patients, 94 knees. Of which about 2 / 3 of the patients had external School did a variety of treatment, 9 patients had arthroscopic surgery done. Clinical symptoms and signs: more performance for initiating the knee, weight bearing, active, pain during activity. To squat and heavy on the downstairs pain, joint stiffness, joint swelling. Joint deformity in some patients, particularly for multi-varus. Articular Activities Friction Sensitivity (sound). Check: knee with mild to moderate knee varus 84, 17 knees with severe varus, valgus 15 knees. Trichosanthis quadriceps contraction in varying degrees. knee swelling, knee synovial hypertrophy 138 . joint function and more limited activities, including the normal range of 230 knees, 319 knees below 120 degrees, 90 degrees lower than the 23 knees. patella knee-eye at the margin of tenderness, which accompanied the gap at the medial knee tenderness 480, outside side of the gap at 68 knee tenderness. very patella test, pressure test were positive patellar and grinding, floating knee patella test positive 167. X-ray examination: more extensive bone proliferation, especially the patella, the lower edge of the tibial em