Tuina Manipulation to Reduce Inflammation and Cartilage Loss in Knee Osteoarthritis RatsXiaojie Su *1, Pengfei Song *1, Fanchao Meng 1, Wenshuai Xu 1, Hua Xing 1, Hong Zhang 1
1Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
We present a protocol for Tuina manipulation performed on plaster-immobilized-induced knee osteoarthritis rats. Based on the preliminary results, it suggested that the efficacy of the method relied on the reduction of inflammation and cartilage loss.
