Viscosupplementation for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee

Viscosupplementation for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee. A review article

Article specifications

This review article was published in 2006 in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (IF 2015: 6.103) in 5 Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

In this article the efficacy of different treatments in osteoarthritis of the knee in 76 articles were evaluated:

40 study in comparison of hyaluronan/hylan and placebo (saline or arthrocentesis)

10study in comparison of different corticosteroid

6 comparison study for NSAIDs

3  article about physiotherapies

2 study in comparison of effects of sports

2  study about arthroscopy

2 study in Conventional therapy

15 study in comparison of  hyaluronan/hylan

Results

The results of these studies showed that Viscosupplement are the most effective in decreasing pain. Also the pain of intra-articular injection of hyaluronic acid is the most but it has less Sid effects and longer effects than corticosteroids.