Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Plenty of reports concerning knee osteoarthritis treatment in past 10 years, whereas, there is not an optimal therapeutic scheme, and the therapeutic effects remain unstable.
OBJECTIVE: To seek an optimal therapeutic scheme with stable effects on knee osteoarthritis through the analysis of clinical treatments from the year of 2000.
METHODS: Using computer technology to retrieve the articles in VIP periodical full-text data base on clinical treatment of knee osteoarthritis from January 2000 to September 2009. The search words were “knee osteoarthritis, therapy, treatment, method of therapy, method of treatment, therapeutic effect”. The language was limited for Chinese. The clinical therapy on knee osteoarthritis was included. And the reproductive research or non-typical report was excluded. A total of 34 literatures were included for further analysis.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Tissue engineering for knee osteoarthritis mainly focus on two aspects: ①inducing natural healing by elevating self-repairing capability of cartilage. ②filling the cartilages with cartilage-like tissues or materials. The combined modality therapy exhibits superior therapeutic effects to single therapy, especially the treatment of integration of traditional Chinese and western medicine. However, there has not unified standard on diagnostic classification and evaluation of clinical therapeutic effects. Therefore, the unified standard for evaluation would be benefit to the accurate judgment of clinical diagnostic classification, the evaluation of therapeutic effect and the choice of treatment, in addition, it can promote the effectiveness and stability of treatments.