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Acupuncture vs. Celecoxib for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized fMRI Study on Pain Modulation

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February 2025

Acupuncture vs. Celecoxib for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized fMRI Study on Pain Modulation

Vol: 307| Issue: 2| Number:86| ISSN#: 2564-2537
Study Type:Therapy
OE Level Evidence:1
Journal Level of Evidence:1

Modulation effects of different treatments on periaqueductal gray resting state functional connectivity in knee osteoarthritis knee pain patients.

CNS Neurosci Ther . 2023 Jul;29(7):1965-1980.

Contributing Authors:
J Zhou F Zeng S Cheng X Dong N Jiang X Zhang C Tang W He Y Chen N Sun Y Zhou X Li S Hu R Sun M Wintermark W Yang F Liang Z Li

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One hundred eighty (180) patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) knee pain were randomized into five groups: verum acupuncture (VA, n=36), sham acupuncture (SA, n=36), celecoxib (SC, n=36), placebo (PB, n=36), and waiting list (WT, n=36). Additionally, 41 healthy controls (HCs) were included. Patients in the VA and SA groups received 10 acupuncture sessions over two weeks, while the SC group recei...

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