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Development and Evaluation of Acu-magnetic Therapeutic Knee Brace for Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis Relief in the Elderly by Zidan Gong; Rong Liu; Winnie Yu; Thomas Kwok-Shing Wong; Yuanqi Guo is a Materials Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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Degenerative knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is the most common form of arthritis with a high prevalence in general population, especially among the elderly. This study aims to design and develop a new acumagnetic therapeutic knee brace (KB) applying acupuncture point stimulation by magnetic approach to relieve symptomatic KOA, and to evaluate its effectiveness on knee function via a randomized controlled trial (RCT). The embedded magnetic padding in the KB were positioned at the six determined acupuncture points along the four main meridians of the lower limb. A total of 52 subjects with KOA aged 60-80 years old participated in RCT study. They were randomly allocated to an experimental KB group (18 subjects), a sham KB group (17 subjects) and a control group (17 subjects). The results indicated that the intervention of the experimental acu-magnetic KB significantly relieved the subjects' knee stiffness and pain feeling, and improved the physical function, balance ability and knee range of motion after a six-week continuous treatment. No significant changes on the tested parameters were found in the control group, but it is worth noting that the sham group also presented positive results
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- Author
- Zidan Gong; Rong Liu; Winnie Yu; Thomas Kwok-Shing Wong; Yuanqi Guo
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Materials Science (Physical Sciences)
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