Zingiber and Acmella Against Knee Osteoarthritis

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

50

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

February 1, 2017

Primary Completion Date

December 31, 2017

Study Completion Date

February 15, 2018

Conditions
PainOsteo Arthritis Knee
Interventions
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Zingiber officinale and Acmella oleracea

Subjects were supplied for four weeks with two tablets/day and there was the evaluation of pain intensity, by a 30-days Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and b) the assessment of knee function by Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index and by Tegner Lysholm Knee Scoring collected at baseline, at 15 and 30 days after treatment, Health-related quality of life, by the ShortForm36, inflammation by C-reactive protein and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate, body composition by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry measured at baseline and 30 days after treatment.

Trial Locations (1)

27100

Geriatric physical medicine and rehabilitation division at the Istituto Santa Margherita - Azienda di Servizi alla Persona di Pavia, Pavia

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Azienda di Servizi alla Persona di Pavia

OTHER

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