The effect of self-administered acupressure on pain severity and sleep quality of patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial
Elaheh Shourabi, Seyyed Abolfazl Vagharseyyedin, Hamidreza Bahrami Taghanaki, Zeinab Saremi · 2024
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Elaheh Shourabi and co-authors test self-applied acupressure for arthritic knees in a 2024 paper. Knee osteoarthritis brings pain and poor sleep, and drugs carry their own costs. The trial enrolled 126 patients and split them three ways: real acupressure on chosen points, sham pressure, or routine care alone. The active and sham groups pressed their points for a minute daily over one month.
Pain scores showed no clear group advantage at set checkpoints, though the acupressure group's pain eased steadily over time. Sleep quality improved more in the acupressure group than under routine care, and the gain held a month after the pressing stopped. Sham pressure showed no such sleep gain. The authors suggest self-acupressure may aid sleep in this condition and call for refined versions of the routine.
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| CREATOR | Elaheh Shourabi, Seyyed Abolfazl Vagharseyyedin, Hamidreza Bahrami Taghanaki, Zeinab Saremi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |