Professor PENG Xunchao's experience in treating knee osteoarthritis by acupuncture
Knee osteoarthritis(KOA)is a common chronic osteoarthritic disease with high morbidity and disability.Currently,Western medicine mainly treat KOA with medicine,physical therapy or surgical treatment.Medicine has many adverse reactions,physical therapy is difficult to be promoted because of the high requirements for treatment equipment and physical therapists,and surgical treatment has the disadvantages of high surgical risk and high treatment cost.Acupuncture and moxibustion show outstanding advantages and remarkable efficacy in the treatment of KOA.There is a wide variety of acupuncture techniques,with clinical effects,and has the advantages of convenient operation,low price,and high safety,which has an important guiding value for optimizing chronic pain management.Professor PENG Xunchao believes that the core pathogenesis of KOA is flaccid basis and paralyzed symptoms,which should be treated by replenishing liver,spleen,and kidneys simultaneously to address the root causes,accompanied by the methods of removing paralysis and eliminating pathogenic factors,and dredging collaterals and relieving pain to relieve symptoms.In clinical practice,it emphasizes the combination of acupoint selection along the meridians and local acupoint selection,focuses on Qi(气)-promoting acupuncture,and uses traditional acupuncture to treat KOA,with remarkable curative effects.In this paper,the thinking and clinical experience of Professor PENG Xunchao in treating KOA is summarized based on the theory of flaccid basis and paralyzed symptoms,providing reference in treating KOA for clinicians.
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