Is acupuncture useful to treat the pain of knee osteoarthritis? Can't see the forest for the trees

Abstract

Osteoarthritis of the knee is a very prevalent disease, and increasingly due to the increasing longevity of the population. Treatment methods, should try to address the problem of the less complex, more effective, and efficient manner. The meta-analyzes and systematic reviews around the treatment of knee osteoarthritis pain are abundant, of high quality, but the difficulties inherent in the technique and the difficulty of masking cause bias in the analyzes that do not finish elucidating the inclusion of acupuncture in clinical guidelines for treating osteoarthritic knee pain.