Background: Osteoarthritis of the knee is a major cause of disability among adults with conservative therapies being among the preferred first line of treatment. Acupuncture and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) are considered a potentially useful treatment for osteoarthritis, however there is dearth of information on the acceptability and efficacy of acupuncture in Nigeria. Objectives: The study was designed to compare the effects of acupuncture and ACUTENS among adult Nigerian with OA of the knee joints. Methods: Thirty patients with knee OA were randomised into 2 intervention groups (i.e., acupuncture and ACUTENS) and a control (soft tissue manipulation) group. Patients in the acupuncture and ACUTENS group were als...
Background Knee osteoarthritis is a chronic disease associated with significant morbidity and econom...
Background: Evidence suggests acupuncture may be effective for treating the symptoms of knee osteoa...
Background: Knee osteoarthritis is a major cause of pain and functional limitation. Purpose: To eval...
OBJECTIVES: To examine the relative effectiveness of electro-acupuncture (EA) and transcutaneous ele...
Background: Osteoarthritis is a widespread chronic disease seen as a continuum of clinical occurrenc...
Abstract Background The present study tests whether a combined treatment of acupuncture and transcut...
Introduction: The pain of knee or hip joints and their function disorder is a common problem for pat...
BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis is a chronic progressive musculoskeletal disorder characterized by stif...
The principal objective of this present study was to compare the effects of different acupuncture me...
Background:Evidence on the efficacy of acupuncture for reduc-ing the pain and dysfunction of osteoar...
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a common chronic degenerative disease of the elderly. Electro-acupunctu...
Abstract Background Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders. A...
BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis (OA) is accepted as a major public health problem. It is one of the majo...
Acupuncture is a popular non-pharmacological modality for treating musculoskeletal pain. Physiothera...
Introduction. Acupuncture was recently shown to be effective in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis...
Background Knee osteoarthritis is a chronic disease associated with significant morbidity and econom...
Background: Evidence suggests acupuncture may be effective for treating the symptoms of knee osteoa...
Background: Knee osteoarthritis is a major cause of pain and functional limitation. Purpose: To eval...
OBJECTIVES: To examine the relative effectiveness of electro-acupuncture (EA) and transcutaneous ele...
Background: Osteoarthritis is a widespread chronic disease seen as a continuum of clinical occurrenc...
Abstract Background The present study tests whether a combined treatment of acupuncture and transcut...
Introduction: The pain of knee or hip joints and their function disorder is a common problem for pat...
BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis is a chronic progressive musculoskeletal disorder characterized by stif...
The principal objective of this present study was to compare the effects of different acupuncture me...
Background:Evidence on the efficacy of acupuncture for reduc-ing the pain and dysfunction of osteoar...
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a common chronic degenerative disease of the elderly. Electro-acupunctu...
Abstract Background Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders. A...
BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis (OA) is accepted as a major public health problem. It is one of the majo...
Acupuncture is a popular non-pharmacological modality for treating musculoskeletal pain. Physiothera...
Introduction. Acupuncture was recently shown to be effective in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis...
Background Knee osteoarthritis is a chronic disease associated with significant morbidity and econom...
Background: Evidence suggests acupuncture may be effective for treating the symptoms of knee osteoa...
Background: Knee osteoarthritis is a major cause of pain and functional limitation. Purpose: To eval...