FU YANGYANG, LIANG HONGGUANG, ZHU QINGGUANG, et al. A clinical study of massage intervention in knee osteoarthritis gait and plantar pressure with "painful locality taken as acupoint". [J]. Beijing journal of traditional chinese medicine, 2025, 44(1): 36-40.
DOI:
FU YANGYANG, LIANG HONGGUANG, ZHU QINGGUANG, et al. A clinical study of massage intervention in knee osteoarthritis gait and plantar pressure with "painful locality taken as acupoint". [J]. Beijing journal of traditional chinese medicine, 2025, 44(1): 36-40. DOI: 10.16025/j.1674-1307.2025.01.008.
A clinical study of massage intervention in knee osteoarthritis gait and plantar pressure with "painful locality taken as acupoint"
To observe the gait and plantar pressure balance distribution patterns of the massage technique based on "painful locality taken as acupoint" in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis (KOA).
Method
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Fifty KOA patients from the Department of Massage in Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, from March 2023 to October 2023 were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group, with 25 cases in each group. The observation group received massage intervention, while the control group received education intervention. The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC) scores, gait-related parameters (walking speed, stride length, stride width, bilateral support phase, unilateral support phase), and plantar pressure were compared before and after intervention in both groups.
Result
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No severe safety issues or adverse events occurred in either group, and all 50 patients completed the study. After intervention, the WOMAC total score, pain score, and activity level score in the observation group were significantly lower than those before intervention, and lower than those in the control group after intervention (
P
<
0.05). There was no significant difference in the stiffness score in the observation group before and after intervention (
P
>
0.05). After intervention, the observation group showed improvement in walking speed, stride width, bilateral support phase, and unilateral support phase compared with the condition before intervention, and these improvements were better than those in the control group (
P
<
0.05). No significant difference was observed in stride length in the observation group before and after intervention (
P
>
0.05). After intervention, the pressure in the internal area of the forefoot in the observation group increased significantly compared with pre-treatment value, and was higher than that in the control group (
P
<
0.05). There were no significant differences in pressure distribution in other areas between pre- and post-intervention in the observation group (
P
>
0.05).
Conclusion
2
The massage technique based on "painful locality taken as acupoint" can significantly improve walking ability and increase forefoot internal pressure, which helps restore gait stability in patients with KOA.
关键词
膝骨关节炎以痛为腧推拿步态足底压力
Keywords
Knee osteoarthritispainful locality taken as acupointmassagegaitplantar pressure
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