Needling Techniques for Knee Osteoarthritis

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

64

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 2, 2021

Primary Completion Date

December 18, 2021

Study Completion Date

June 12, 2022

Conditions
Knee OsteoarthritisKidney Yin DeficiencyKidney Yang Deficiency
Interventions
PROCEDURE

Acupuncture

Acupuncture treatment includes pricking the skin with acupuncture needles 0.3 x 40 millimetres in size, in the places of prescribed acupuncture points. Placed needles should be manipulated three times, every ten minutes, three times in total. The complete time of treatment is 30 minutes. All treatments will be equal.

DRUG

Conventional Medical Treatment

Participants could take their standard conventional medical treatment or analgesics. Analgesics therapy is prescribed by their general practitioner. The dose of analgesics could be modified according to participants' symptoms intensity.

Trial Locations (1)

10000

Family Medicine Practice Svijetlana Perculija Durdevic, MD, Zagreb

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Xueping Zhou, Li Ren

UNKNOWN

collaborator

School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Pero Hrabac

UNKNOWN

collaborator

Health Center Zagreb East, Ljiljana Karadakic

UNKNOWN

lead

Svijetlana Perculija Durdevic

OTHER

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