Acupuncture as an adjunctive therapy to pharmacological treatment in patients with chronic pain due to osteoarthritis of the knee: A 3-armed, randomized, placebo-controlled trial

Pain

Volumn 153, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1720-1726

  Mavrommatis, Christos I ^a   Argyra, Eriphili ^b   Vadalouka, Athina ^b   Vasilakos, Dimitrios G ^c  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Adjunctive therapy; Algometer; Chronic pain; Etoricoxib; Knee osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

ETORICOXIB; PLACEBO;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ALGOMETER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS; ARTHRALGIA; CHRONIC PAIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLACEBO EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863721499     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.05.005     Document Type: Article

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