Efficacy of Tuina in patients with knee osteoarthritis: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Jinlin Zhang, Bin Xue, Yan Wei, Ming Shi, Yi Luo, Weijia Chen, Qiang Wang, Xiaobing Xi, Zhijun Hu · 2025
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Jinlin Zhang and eight co-authors set out a trial protocol in 2025 for Tuina therapy in knee osteoarthritis. Tuina is a Chinese manual therapy that shows promise for knee pain, but high quality evidence is thin and guidelines do not agree on it. The trial will recruit eighty four patients at a Shanghai hospital.
Patients will be assigned by chance to Tuina plus infrared therapy or infrared therapy alone, twice a week for four weeks. Follow up runs to six months. The main outcome is a standard knee function score, with pain, muscle tone, and pain sensitivity also measured. Assessors will not know group assignments. All patients receive education on knee exercise and protection during the study.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jinlin Zhang, Bin Xue, Yan Wei, Ming Shi, Yi Luo, Weijia Chen, Qiang Wang, Xiaobing Xi, Zhijun Hu |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |