Clinical data
eczema, KOA
MAY, ECZEMA
This was a randomized controlled trial. One hundred participants were selected from patients with KOA who were treated at the Department of Orthopedics of Wenzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine between February 2019 and May 2022. The standard follow-up for all treated patients lasted 4 weeks. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Wenzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (approval no. WTCM-H-KT-2019047), and all patients provided signed informed consent for their inclusion in the research. The study met the requirements of the Declaration of Helsinki.One hundred patients with KOA enrolled in this study were divided into control and study groups (The inclusion criteria were: (1) patients The exclusion criteria were: (1) patients who had undergone knee surgery, (2) patients who had undergone intra-articular injection treatment within 3 months before the study treatment, (3) patients who could not complete the data collection form, and (4) patients with ear eczema or a history of any ear surgery.