Abstract:Knee osteoarthritis is a common orthopedic disease with a high incidence, with joint pain and dysfunction as the main clinical symptoms. Improper treatment leads to a high long-term disability rate, which brings a huge social and economic burden. Treatment of the this disease is aimed at improving symptoms and delaying the progression of the disease. Western medicine treatment has more side effects, poor patient compliance, surgical treatment trauma, heavy burden of patients. Relative to Western medicine, external application of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and moxibustion, akupotomye, physical therapy, and functional exercise of traditional Chinese medicine external treatment, in the treatment of this disease has the characteristics of simple operation, less side effects, economic and practical, accurate curative effect and so on. Its mechanism of action has been continuously studied and revealed, making the external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine for knee osteoarthritis accepted by more and more doctors and patients. This paper reviews the application progress of common traditional Chinese medicine external treatment in knee osteoarthritis.
赵继阳 陈黎明 郭盛君 李晓亮 白晶 许根荣 马玉峰 王庆普. 膝骨关节炎中医外治法研究进展[J]. 中国医药导报, 2021, 18(26): 43-45,64.
ZHAO Jiyang CHEN Liming GUO Shengjun LI Xiaoliang BAI Jing XU Genrong MA Yufeng WANG Qingpu. Research progress on external treatment of knee osteoarthritis with traditional Chinese medicine. 中国医药导报, 2021, 18(26): 43-45,64.