Front (left) and lateral (right) radiography of the patient’s left knee. The lines are the tiny golden wires.
A woman went to the hospital due to intense pain in her knees. A radiography showed hundreds of gold wire filaments. The problem was acupuncture.
Happened in South Korea. A 65 -year -old woman had a previous diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis – A degenerative condition of the joints that causes pain and rigidity.
As it counts, the patient had previously sought medical care, but all gave her more problems. Then decided to do alternative treatments to relieve pain and began to do acupuncture.
After a while after starting this treatment, he went to the hospital, complaining that he had his knees were very painful.
Radiographs of the left knee revealed that the tibia inside the joint had thickened and hardened. There were also bone growth, called spurs, in the internal parts of the tibia and the femur next to the knee joint. Doctors also saw Hundreds of spots on the radiography around the knee articulation.
They were small golden wires
According to the announced in 2013 by The New England Journal of Medicine, the wires had been inserted as part of acupuncture treatments.
Estes Short and sterile golden threads were purposely left in the fabric to check continuous stimulation.
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In the report, doctors emphasize that acupuncture with gold wires is commonly used to treat both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritisespecially in Asia.
However, there is no evidence that practice works, and some cases suggest that may indirectly aggravate arthritis By preventing people from receiving proper and timely treatment.
The wires can also migrate inside the body, and fragments can damage the neighboring fabric. For example, gold wires inserted on the back of a 75-year-old South Korean woman migrated to her lower right leg over a 10-year period, causing cellulite.
Others warned that these embedded gold filaments prevent people from being able to perform magnetic resonances due to the risk of the metal moving and damaging an artery.
