中醫治療退化性膝關節炎的臨床進展

Clinical Progress of Degenerative Knee Joint Arthritis Treated with Traditional Chinese Medicine

高宗桂(Tsung-Kuei Kao)

《台灣中醫臨床醫學雜誌》 16卷2期 (2010/06) Pp. 125-132

https://doi.org/10.6968/TJCCM.201006.0125

摘要

退化性膝關節炎是臨床常見的多發性關節軟骨疾病，好發於50歲以上的中老年人。臨床表現主要是膝痛、僵硬、腫脹、關節積液及活動功能障礙，影響患者生活品質。現代臨床的多中心隨機臨床試驗研究早已證實，中醫療法對退化性膝關節炎安全有效，而且副作用極小。本文介紹近年中醫治療退化性膝關節炎的臨床進展，期盼結合現代醫學，發揮中醫各家所長，採取綜合治療，把退化性膝關節炎的治療效果提升到更高的程度。

關鍵字

退化性關節炎 ； 膝關節 ； 中醫 ； 臨床進展

並列摘要

Degenerative knee arthritis is one of the clinical common articular cartilage disease, usual suffered over 50 years old people. Major Clinic behave as knee ache, rigidity, tumefaction, joints accumulate liquid and act function's obstacle, that affect patient's quality. Modern clinical polycentric at random clinic experiment research already confirmation, Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to degenerative knee arthritis showed safety in effect, and Iitt1e side effect. This paper introduce recent year's clinic progress of TCM treat degenerative kncee joint's arthritis。 We expect to combine modern medical science, exert each herbalist doctor's advantage, adopt synthesis treatment, to lift the cure effect of degenerative knee joint's arthritis to higher extent.

並列關鍵字

osteoarthritis ； Knee joint ； Traditional Chinese Medicine ； clinical progress