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Miller E, Maimon Y, Rosenblatt Y, et al. Delayed Effect of Acupuncture Treatment in OA of the Knee: A Blinded, Randomized, Controlled Trial. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2010;2011:792975doi: 10.1093/ecam/nen080.
Miller, E., Maimon, Y., Rosenblatt, Y., Mendler, A., Hasner, A., Barad, A., Amir, H., Dekel, S., & Lev-Ari, S. (2011). Delayed Effect of Acupuncture Treatment in OA of the Knee: A Blinded, Randomized, Controlled Trial. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2011792975. https://doi.org/10.1093/ecam/nen080
Miller, Ehud, et al. "Delayed Effect of Acupuncture Treatment in OA of the Knee: A Blinded, Randomized, Controlled Trial." Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM vol. 2011 (2011): 792975. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ecam/nen080
Miller E, Maimon Y, Rosenblatt Y, Mendler A, Hasner A, Barad A, Amir H, Dekel S, Lev-Ari S. Delayed Effect of Acupuncture Treatment in OA of the Knee: A Blinded, Randomized, Controlled Trial. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2011;2011:792975. doi: 10.1093/ecam/nen080. Epub 2010 Oct 20. PMID: 19124552; PMCID: PMC3137589.
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Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2011;2011:792975. doi: 10.1093/ecam/nen080. Epub 2010 Oct 20.

Delayed Effect of Acupuncture Treatment in OA of the Knee: A Blinded, Randomized, Controlled Trial.

Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM

Ehud Miller, Yair Maimon, Yishai Rosenblatt, Anat Mendler, Avi Hasner, Adi Barad, Hagay Amir, Shmuel Dekel, Shahar Lev-Ari

Affiliations

  1. Unit of Complementary Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

PMID: 19124552 PMCID: PMC3137589 DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nen080

Abstract

To assess the efficacy in providing improved function and pain relief by administering 8 weeks of acupuncture as adjunctive therapy to standard care in elderly patients with OA of the knee. This randomized, controlled, blinded trial was conducted on 55 patients with OA of the knee. Forty-one patients completed the study (26 females, 15 males, mean age ± SD 71.7 ± 8.6 years). Patients were randomly divided into an intervention group that received biweekly acupuncture treatment (n = 28) and a control group that received sham acupuncture (n = 27), both in addition to standard therapy, for example, NSAIDS, cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors, acetaminophen, intra-articular hyaluronic acid and steroid injections. Primary outcomes measures were changes in the Knee Society Score (KSS) knee score and in KSS function and pain ratings at therapy onset, at 8 weeks (closure of study) and at 12 weeks (1 month after last treatment). Secondary outcomes were patient satisfaction and validity of sham acupuncture. There was significant improvement in all three scores in both groups after 8 and 12 weeks compared with baseline (P < .05). Significant differences between the intervention and control groups in the KSS knee score (P = .036) was apparent only after 12 weeks. Patient satisfaction was higher in the intervention group. Adjunctive acupuncture treatment seems to provide added improvement to standard care in elderly patients with OA of the knee. Future research should determine the optimal duration of acupuncture treatment in the context of OA.

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