title: [Professor Li Zhi-dao's experience on knee osteoarthritis].
abstract: Professor Li Zhi-dao has special method to treat knee osteoarthritis. He pays great attention to Feijing Zouqi method; beside the traditional acupoints, he creates two groups of acupoints: nine acupoints of the anterior or the posterior of the thigh, and what's more, he emphasises on improving the function of tendon; he particularly adopts fire needle therapy for the severe and invalidism patients. In addition, professor Li Zhi-dao pays great attention to the effect of the model and method of exercise on the osteoarthritis, and he advocates the patient should keep right active and passive movement of knee joint.
authors.affiliation: Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Nankai Hospital of Tianjin City, Tianjin 300100, China. synofchina@163.com
authors.forename: Ya-Nan
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D020370:Osteoarthritis, Knee / Q000628:therapy*