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KMID : 0895820190290040047
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Journal of Oriental Rehabilitation Medicine
2019 Volume.29 No. 4 p.47 ~ p.60
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A Systematic Review of Herbal Medicine Treatment for Knee Osteoarthritis
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Kim Ji-Hoon
Yoon Young-Suk
Lee Won-Jun
Ko Hong-Je
Kim Seon-Jong
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study reviewed recent clinical research trends regarding the effectiveness of herbal medicine treatments for knee osteoarthritis.
Methods: We reviewed 4 different online databases (PubMed, China National Knowledge Infrastructure [CNKI], National Digital Science Library [NDSL], Oriental Medicine Advanced Searching Integrated System [OASIS]) from January 1, 2015 to August 31, 2019.
Results: Thirty-two randomized controlled trial papers were selected in this review. Most of them were conducted during 12 weeks, used Western Ontario and Mcmaster Universities Arthritis Index. In 22 of the papers, the effectiveness in the intervention groups was significantly higher than that in the control groups statistically (p<0.05). 5 studies reported intervention group was not inferior to the control group.
Conclusions: Most of studies showed herbal medicine treatments were statistically effective to knee osteoarthritis. More scientific and systematic clinical studies should be actively conducted in the future, and the results of this study could be used as basic data in the future clinical studies on herbal medicine treatment for knee osteoarthritis
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KEYWORD
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Herbal medicine, Systematic review, Traditional Medicine, Knee osteoarthritis
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