The Effects of Traditional Chinese Exercise in Treating Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Traditional Chinese exercise (TCE) includes a variety of exercise, which is being accepted by more and more people in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis (OA) from different countries. With the attendant, many clinical reports focus on it. Our meta-analysis aimed to systematically assess the effect...

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Published in:PloS one 2017-01, Vol.12 (1), p.e0170237
Main Authors: Zhang, Yingjie, Huang, Lulu, Su, Youxin, Zhan, Zhengxuan, Li, Yanan, Lai, Xingquan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Arthritis
Biocompatibility
Biology and Life Sciences
Care and treatment
Chinese medicine
Clinical trials
Confidence intervals
Exercise
Exercise Therapy
Female
Health aspects
Humans
Knee
Male
Medicine and Health Sciences
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Mental Health
Meta-analysis
Middle Aged
Mind-Body Therapies
Muscle Strength
Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis, Knee - physiopathology
Osteoarthritis, Knee - psychology
Osteoarthritis, Knee - therapy
Pain
Physical Sciences
Quality of Life
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Range of Motion, Articular
Recovery of Function
Research and Analysis Methods
Stiffness
Systematic review
Traditional Chinese medicine
Treatment Outcome
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Summary:Traditional Chinese exercise (TCE) includes a variety of exercise, which is being accepted by more and more people in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis (OA) from different countries. With the attendant, many clinical reports focus on it. Our meta-analysis aimed to systematically assess the effects of traditional Chinese exercise on pain, stiffness, physical function, quality of life, mental health and adverse events in people with knee osteoarthritis. PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), the Web of Science, and Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM) were searched from the time of their inception through April 2016 and risk of bias was independently assessed by two authors. Outcome measures included pain, physical functional, joint stiffness, quality of life, mental health and safety. For pooled outcomes, standardized mean differences (SMD) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated. Eight randomized controlled trials with a sample size of 375 cases met the criteria to be included in the study indicating that high quality literature is lacking in this field. Results of the meta-analysis showed that short-term TCE could relieve pain (SMD: -0.77;95% CI: -1.13 to -0.41; P
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0170237