This study evaluates the safety and efficacy of investigational products in the treatment of knee Osteoarthritis. Half of participants will receive medical chitosan, while the other half will receive sodium hyaluronate.
Medical chitosan and sodium hyaluronate each form the reticular layer to cover the joint surface, alleviate the joint friction and pain. For medical chitosan, its half-life is longer than sodium hyaluronate, so the interval time of intra-articular injection is longer.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
270
intra-articular injection
intra-articular injection
Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital. Orthopedics.
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
RECRUITINGVisual Analogue Scale for knee pain
The investigator and the subject both evaluate the pain intensity per VAS before injection. VAS ranges from o to 10, 0=no pain, 10=pain as bad as can be.
Time frame: six weeks of the initial injection
WOMAC for knee pain
WOMAC includes 3 items: pain, stiff and physiological function. 0=no, 4=as bad as can be.
Time frame: six weeks of the initial injection
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