Tong-Luo-Qu-Tong Plaster for KOA: a Randomised, Double-blind, Parallel Positive Control, Multi-center Clinical Trial

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2020-09-20

Summary

Knee osteoarthritis(OA), also known as degenerative arthritis, have affected a lot of people. Patients with severe osteoarthritis frequently develop one or more of the typically following symptoms: joint pain, stiffness, activity with joint friction noise, limited mobility, such as difficulty walking and climbing. Now there are many western medicine treatments including symptom relief and joint cartilage protective agents for OA, but the results have not yet satisfied. TCM treatment of osteoarthritis has remarkable curative effect and unique advantage.Tong-Luo-Qu-Tong Plaster is a common method to treat osteoarthritis of the knee for thousands of years in China. It lacked a large sample randomised, double-blind, parallel positive controlled, multicenter clinical trial, and the clinical evidence of Tong-Luo-Qu-Tong Plaster for Knee Osteoarthritis need to be further completed.

• Phase: Phase 3

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Collaborators: Hubei Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Luoyang Orthopaedics-Traumatological Hospital; Luoyang Osteopathy hospital of Henan; Suzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine; The Fourth Central Hospital of Tianjin; The fourth central Hospital of Tianjing; The Second Hospital of Nanjing Medical University; Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences; Wuhan University; Zhongnan Hospital Affiliated to Wuhan University