Progress in Traditional Chinese and Weste rn Medicine Treatments and Nursing Care of Knee Osteoarthritis

This paper reviews the causes of knee osteoarthritis,traditional Chinese and Western medicine therapies and nursing research progress and indicates that traditional Chinese and Western medicine have gradually recognized the cause of knee osteoarthritis.Knee osteoarthritis has been treated with various treatments and nursing care planning,and the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine has constantly been improved.Nurses should instruct the discharged patient to correctly treat their disease,adopt the health education,and,via the establishment of a healthy lifestyle,insist on a functional exercise to relieve the pain,delay disease progression,and improve quality of life.