Degenerative knee disease is also known as osteoarthritis, many patients hear this diagnosis, immediately think of the traditional medicine of the motherland, acupuncture, massage, cupping all try all over, in the end these methods have no effect? Let’s hear what the experts have to say. First of all, the plaster certainly has a role, but the treatment is not the root cause, only to play the role of anti-inflammatory, blood and pain relief, can not make the rough and uneven cartilage become smooth and flat. In addition, many people think that plastering is easy and cheap, so they put several plasters a day, which is also not right. It is best to choose a plaster that is breathable and non-allergenic, and try to use it intermittently. If you use it frequently, even every day without interruption, your skin will not be breathable and many people will experience allergies or skin breakage. The plaster is only an adjunct to treatment and is used to improve symptoms, so how long it is applied depends on the patient’s own condition. If the symptoms improve or simply do not work, it is not necessary to apply it. Patients with chronic osteoarthritis of the knee can try cupping and acupuncture to stimulate local acupuncture points. However, avoid cupping and acupuncture in the acute phase when the joint is red, swollen and painful. Moreover, acupuncture and cupping should be careful to avoid skin infections, and poorly sterilized acupuncture can even lead to deep soft tissue or joint cavity infections, and evolve into septic arthritis. At present, many unscrupulous institutions cheat patients under the guise of Chinese medicine, so if you want to try acupuncture and cupping, you must go to a regular hospital and find a real acupuncturist to avoid suffering without results. There are also many patients with knee pain choose massage, in fact, it is also possible, but in what stage and what part of the massage. Normal massage means massaging the muscles, not the joints. Massage can relax the tightness of the muscles and help blood circulation, but massage should be avoided in the acute phase, which will increase joint fluid and make joint swelling more obvious. The chronic phase can be properly massaged muscles, such as the quadriceps.