Effects of Knee Injections on Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Trial end date: 2022-07-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Using a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled design to compare the immediate, short-term, and intermediate-term additional therapeutic effects of ultrasound-guided corticosteroid injection and dextrose injection to hyaluronic acid injection on patients with knee osteoarthritis, under the basis of International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Taipei Medical University
• Collaborator: Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital
• Treatments: Hyaluronic Acid; Triamcinolone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. clinical diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis

2. can walk for 15 meters

3. Kellgren-Lawrence grade 2 or greater

4. can follow up for 6 months

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Major diseases will affect balance, such as stroke

2. infectious disease,

3. rheumatoid arthritis,

4. malignancy

5. pregnancy or prepare to pregnant

6. received knee injections in the past 6 months

7. previous knee operation history