Why the study?
Does local anaesthetic and systemic lysine acetylsalicylate improve pain thresholds and EMG activity in patients with knee osteoarthritis?
Population
Healthy control subjects and patients with osteoarthritis of the knee
Comparison
Injections of local anaesthetic into tender… vs Healthy controls and pre-treatment state
Design
Other
Authors
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May support local anaesthetic and lysine acetylsalicylate for normalizing EMG and pain thresholds in knee osteoarthritis; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation.
Does local anaesthetic and systemic lysine acetylsalicylate improve pain thresholds and EMG activity in patients with knee osteoarthritis?
Local anaesthetic and systemic lysine acetylsalicylate can normalize abnormal EMG activity and pain thresholds in patients with knee osteoarthritis.
Brucini et al. (1981) studied this question.
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