Clinical research of rolling manipulation in treating knee osteoarthritis

Abstract

Knee Osteoarthritis (KOA) is also called degenerative osteoarthritis. With its incidence reaching 13.2% in men and 28.3% in women, it has become the most common joint disease and also one of the major reasons for old people to be disabled. The feature of the disease is progressive degeneration in cartilage tissue of the joint, osteophyma formed in the border of the joint and reactive change in the sclerotin of the cartilage. The patients can experience pain and weakness of the knee joint, difficulty in walking, standing and climbing stairs, which severely disturb the daily life of the patients. The authors used rolling manipulation and tuina to treat knee osteoarthritis in 30 cases, compared with another 30 cases by oral Fenbid. It is now reported as follows.