| Proliferation pain on knee joint or osteoarthropathy is common to people who engage in various types of activities or sports which directly affect the knee caps.When osteoarthropathy occurs, the cartilage will form a kind of substance, damaging the peripheral cartilage and form into superfluous bone.Cases on proliferation pain on knee joints are high and common in Singapore. It differs from other inflammation disease. Osteoarthropathy takes a longer time to recover as it has a high relapse rate.According to an article reported in Lianhe Zaobao, proliferation pain on knee joint osteoarthropathy threatens one third of the world’s population. Due to ageing population, it is estimated that the retrograde of knee joint osteoarthropathy cases will rise and gradually become a serious health problem, mostly to women who are middle aged and older.Another report from Health Journal which had done statistics on Singaporean women, states that 50 per cent of women aged 65 and above suffered from retrograde of bone joints.Currently, there is no effective cure on knee joint osteoarthropathy or best method of preventing damage to knee joint cartilage. In order to reduce the osteoarthropathy pain on the knee and damage to knee joint cartilage, the G6805 Electro-acupuncture Health Device was used to gauge its effectiveness on osteoarthropathy. 30 of the patients in the Therapy Group were treated with dense disperse wave (D-D). Another 30 patients under the Contrast Group were treated with successive wave (SUC). This is to observe the therapeutic effect on both groups. Both groups were given an acceptable wave which patients could tolerate and thereafter feel comfortable. Each treatment lasted 30 minutes, 2 times a week and 10 times were taken as a complete medical treatment cycle. At each treatment, 3 acupuncture points were taken.At the end, the research shows that patients under the Therapy Group had 33.3 per cent full effectiveness rate and 73.3 per cent overall effective rate. The Contrast Group had 6.7 per cent full effectiveness rate and overall effective rate of 63.4 per cent.No doubt X-rays show no changes on proliferation on the knee joints, but overall results show improvement on cases such as severe pain, swell and other types of knee joint problems had become better after the complete medical treatment. Most importantly, patients are pleased with this therapy. |