作者
Ralph Plaster, Wellington Bueno Vieira, Flávia Alves Duarte Alencar, Eduardo Yoshio Nakano, Richard Eloin Liebano
发表日期
2014/6
期刊
Acupuncture in Medicine
卷号
32
期号
3
页码范围
236-241
出版商
SAGE Publications
简介
Objective
To compare the immediate effects of electroacupuncture and manual acupuncture on pain, mobility and muscle strength in patients with knee osteoarthritis.
Methods
Sixty patients with knee osteoarthritis, with a pain intensity of ≥2 on the pain Numerical Rating Scale, were included. The patients were randomised into two groups: manual acupuncture and electroacupuncture. Pain intensity, degree of dysfunction (Timed Up and Go (TUG) test), maximal voluntary isometric contraction and pressure pain threshold were assessed before and after a single session of manual acupuncture or electroacupuncture treatments.
Results
Both groups showed a significant reduction in pain intensity (p<0.001) and time to run the TUG test after the acupuncture treatment (p=0.005 for the manual acupuncture group and p=0.002 for the electroacupuncture group). There were no differences between the groups regarding pain …
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