Dos Hermanas, Spain - Hard on the heels of a large NIH study showing that acupuncture is effective for the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee comes a new randomized controlled trial ...

MEDLINE 22. Witt C, Brinkhaus B, Jena S et al.: Acupuncture in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee: a randomised trial. Lancet 2005; 366: 136–43. MEDLINE 23. Berman BM, Lao L, Langenberg P ...

A total of 455 knee OA patients received either TCA or sham acupuncture treatments and 72 ... specific multidimensional assessment of pain (J-MAP) at -1.1 and -1.0, respectively while the control ...