Treatment of Patients With Chronic Osteoarthritis With Ginger Kidney Compress - a Randomized, Controlled Trial (OST_02)

ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Other: ginger compress

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02044432

OST_02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators hypothesize that by a 5-week treatment with ginger kidney compresses at least 2 of 3 main symptoms of the WOMAC (pain, stiffness, functionality) will be reduced at least 30% at the time of the post-measurement (after 5 weeks of therapy) in comparison to the respective control group (waitlist).

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Chronic osteoarthritis, mainly osteoarthritis of the knee
• osteoarthritis symptoms for at least six months
• written consent to participate in the study
• Age: 30 years and more

Exclusion criteria

• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Fibromyalgia
• Oncological or other serious diseases
• Use of corticosteroids
• Nephropathy
• Non-intact skin conditions in the area of application
• Hypersensitivity / allergy to ginger
• Simultaneous participation in another clinical trial

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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32 participants in 2 patient groups

Ginger compress

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: ginger compress

Wait list

No Intervention group