Effects of therapeutic ultrasound for knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

CONCLUSIONS: Therapeutic ultrasound is a safe treatment to relieve pain and improve physical function in patients with knee osteoarthritis. However, phonophoresis does not produce additional benefits to functional improvement, but may relieve pain compared to conventional non-drug ultrasound.
PMID: 31382781 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Rehabilitation - August 4, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Wu Y, Zhu S, Lv Z, Kan S, Wu Q, Song W, Ning G, Feng S Tags: Clin Rehabil Source Type: research