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February 01, 2008
bad knees
The AHRQ has reviewed therapies for osteoarthritis of the knee, including OTC glucosamine and chondroitin, injected hyaluronan, and various arthroscopy techniques. None has been proven to help. (Hyaluronan does improve pain scores and function scores temporarily but there is no evidence that this effect lasts.)
What should be done to the purveyors of the millions of these procedures and pills?
| By Robert Maddox | 09:02 AM