Abstract | OBJECTIVE: METHODS: Sixty patients with knee osteoarthritis, with a pain intensity of ≥2 on the pain Numerical Rating Scale, were included. The patients were randomised into two groups: manual acupuncture and electroacupuncture. Pain intensity, degree of dysfunction (Timed Up and Go (TUG) test), maximal voluntary isometric contraction and pressure pain threshold were assessed before and after a single session of manual acupuncture or electroacupuncture treatments. RESULTS: Both groups showed a significant reduction in pain intensity (p<0.001) and time to run the TUG test after the acupuncture treatment (p=0.005 for the manual acupuncture group and p=0.002 for the electroacupuncture group). There were no differences between the groups regarding pain intensity (p=0.25), TUG test (p=0.70), maximum voluntary isometric contraction (p=0.43) or pressure pain threshold (p=0.27). CONCLUSIONS: TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: RBR-9TCN2X.
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Authors | Ralph Plaster, Wellington Bueno Vieira, Flávia Alves Duarte Alencar, Eduardo Yoshio Nakano, Richard Eloin Liebano |
Journal | Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society
(Acupunct Med)
Vol. 32
Issue 3
Pg. 236-41
(Jun 2014)
ISSN: 1759-9873 [Electronic] England |
PMID | 24566612
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Randomized Controlled Trial)
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Topics |
- Acupuncture Therapy
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Electroacupuncture
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Muscle Strength
- Osteoarthritis, Knee
(physiopathology, therapy)
- Pain Management
- Range of Motion, Articular
- Treatment Outcome
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