Traditional and complementary medicine use for knee osteoarthritis

Objectives: This study aims to determine the traditional and complementary medicine (TCM) use in patients with knee osteoarthritis, by whom these methods are recommended, which provide best outcome, contribute awareness of physicians about TCM methods. Methods: One hundred four over age 40 who were diagnosed osteoarthritis had complaints for at least 6 months included study. The applications previous treatments patients, whether they used additional medications or not, finally, method benefited from most, recommended applied questioned recorded. Results: In our study, we found that most commonly phytotherapy products supportive drugs, line literature. We did not find hypnosis, hirudotherapy, reflexology, homeopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic, maggot applications, apitherapy, music therapy determined learned their families close circles rather than doctors to. Conclusions: Patients methods, being first place.