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Mechanism of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Treating Knee Osteoarthritis

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a degenerative disease, making a unique contribution to chronic pain, edema, and limited mobility of knee joint. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a common complementary therapy for KOA and has been found effective. The aim of this review is to consolidate the curren...

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Autores principales: Wang, Mina, Liu, Lu, Zhang, Claire Shuiqing, Liao, Zehuan, Jing, Xianghong, Fishers, Marc, Zhao, Luopeng, Xu, Xiaobai, Li, Bin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7304682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32606908
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S247827
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author Wang, Mina
Liu, Lu
Zhang, Claire Shuiqing
Liao, Zehuan
Jing, Xianghong
Fishers, Marc
Zhao, Luopeng
Xu, Xiaobai
Li, Bin
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description Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a degenerative disease, making a unique contribution to chronic pain, edema, and limited mobility of knee joint. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a common complementary therapy for KOA and has been found effective. The aim of this review is to consolidate the current knowledge about the mechanism of four interventions of TCM: acupuncture, moxibustion, herbs, and massage in treating KOA, and how they alleviate symptoms such as pain, swelling, and dysfunction. Furthermore, this review highlights that four therapies have different mechanisms but all of them can manage KOA through inhibiting inflammation, which indicates that alternative therapies should be considered as a viable complementary treatment for pain management in clinical practice.
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spelling pubmed-73046822020-06-29 Mechanism of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Treating Knee Osteoarthritis Wang, Mina Liu, Lu Zhang, Claire Shuiqing Liao, Zehuan Jing, Xianghong Fishers, Marc Zhao, Luopeng Xu, Xiaobai Li, Bin J Pain Res Review Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a degenerative disease, making a unique contribution to chronic pain, edema, and limited mobility of knee joint. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a common complementary therapy for KOA and has been found effective. The aim of this review is to consolidate the current knowledge about the mechanism of four interventions of TCM: acupuncture, moxibustion, herbs, and massage in treating KOA, and how they alleviate symptoms such as pain, swelling, and dysfunction. Furthermore, this review highlights that four therapies have different mechanisms but all of them can manage KOA through inhibiting inflammation, which indicates that alternative therapies should be considered as a viable complementary treatment for pain management in clinical practice. Dove 2020-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7304682/ /pubmed/32606908 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S247827 Text en © 2020 Wang et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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Wang, Mina
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Liao, Zehuan
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Fishers, Marc
Zhao, Luopeng
Xu, Xiaobai
Li, Bin
Mechanism of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Treating Knee Osteoarthritis
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title_short Mechanism of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Treating Knee Osteoarthritis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7304682/
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