Progress of clinical research on classical acupuncture therapy for knee osteoarthritis
The study referred to the relevant literature on the treatment of knee osteoarthritis with acupuncture in the past ten years,and reviewed the clinical research on the treatment of knee osteoarthritis with classical acu-puncture methods in ancient books Huangdi Neijing and Zhenjiu Daquan and ZHENG's acupuncture method recor-ded.It is pointed out that the research of classical acupuncture therapy for knee osteoarthritis has such deficiency as small clinical sample size,lack of long-term follow-up,unclear treatment mechanism,inconsistent objective indica-tors,failure to strictly follow the basic principles of double blindness and duplication,and problem of whether the syndrome type is consistent with the treatment method.In future research,the above issues should be improved to facilitate the further promotion of classical acupuncture treatment for knee osteoarthritis.