Objectives of Study:
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In this study, ozone joint cavity combined acupoint injection and ozone acupoint injection were applied to patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis of the knee joint in the outpatient clinics of the Department of Pain Medicine and the Department of Tuina of Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and meeting the inclusion criteria of this study. By comparing and observing the changes in the pain level and the influence on daily life before and after the treatment, the safety, effectiveness, and generalizability of ozone arthrocentesis combined with acupoint injections, which is a combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, were objectively evaluated.
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Inclusion criteria
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(1) Patients who meet the diagnostic criteria for osteoarthritis of the knee.
(2) Patients over 40 years of age, regardless of gender.
(3) Grade I, II and III of the radiologic grading criteria for osteoarthritis.
(4) Patients who have not used western drugs such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, hormones, etc. in the first 4 weeks of the trial.
and have not been treated in other ways or taken other medications recently.
(5) Agree to receive ozone injection treatment and voluntarily sign the informed consent form
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Exclusion criteria:
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(1) Patients who could not fulfill the diagnostic criteria of this study.
(2) Osteoarthritis radiologic condition grading criteria of grade 0 and grade IV.
(3) Patients with severe primary diseases such as cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, hepatic and renal organs, coagulation function, endocrine system and psychiatric patients.
(3) Combined with cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, hepatic and renal organs, coagulation function, endocrine system and other serious primary diseases and psychiatric patients
(4) Combined with knee tumor, knee fracture, rheumatoid, gout, tuberculosis, septic and other diseases that affect the structure of the joint.
complicated diseases affecting the joint structure, or patients with psoriasis, syphilitic neuropathy, metabolic bone disease, acute trauma, etc.
disease, acute trauma and other patients.
(5) Pregnant or quasi-pregnant women.
(6) Patients with significant narrowing of joint space or bony ankylosis due to the formation of bone bridges between joints, and patients with obvious internal and external rotation deformity of the knee joint.
(6) Patients with significant narrowing of the joint space or bony ankylosis due to the formation of inter-articular bridges, obvious internal and external deformity of the knee joint, and history of vascular and neurological injury of the affected limb.
(7) Those who are under 40 years old or over 75 years old.
(8) History of knee surgery.
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