Knee osteoarthritis is a common bone and joint disease worldwide. Acupuncture is widely used in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis and has Acupuncture is a unique treatment technique in Chinese medicine that has been used for osteoarthritis for thousands of years. It is by far acupuncture treatment of knee osteoarthritis is still an effective method with good curative effect, simple and easy operation, and it is worth noting that acupuncture and moxibustion treatment also requires treatment based on pattern differentiation. After reading the relevant literature on acupuncture treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee in recent years, we found that the vast majority of the current literature review is only related to the different methods of acupuncture treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee, while the summarization of the treatment of different patterns of KOA is lacking,This article summarizes the acupuncture treatment of different patterns of knee osteoarthritis in recent years, and provides ideas and references for the further standardized treatment of KOA in the clinic.

Ren Caiying, Li Baijun, Zheng Jie. Progress in acupuncture and moxibustion treatment of different pattern types of knee osteoarthritis. International Journal of Frontiers in Medicine (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 8: 79-85. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFM.2023.050811.

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