Acupuncture as an adjunctive therapy to pharmacological treatment in patients with chronic pain due to osteoarthritis of knee: A three-armed, randomized, placebo-controlled trial.
The efficacy of acupuncture as an adjunctive therapy to pharmacological treatment of chronic pain due to knee osteoarthritis was studied with a three-armed, single-blind, randomized, sham-controlled trial; it compared acupuncture combined with pharmacological treatment, sham acupuncture including pharmacological treatment, and pharmacological treatment alone. A total of 120 patients with knee osteoarthritis were randomly allocated to […]
