IRCT2015041521758N2 IRCT 2015-10-12 Vice Chancellor for research of University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences Effect of acupressure on knee Arthroses - Effect of acupressure on pain, stiffness and physical function of knee among nursing home residents with osteoarthritis 2015-02-20 anticipated 51 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/18984 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Single blinded, Placebo: Used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Supportive, Other design features: Randomization method: It was possible residents in nursing homes have to meet and discuss about intervention way might causes bias, therefore all of elder in those each centers were randomly allocated to one of the under study groups. In this way a code assigned to each of the under study centers and using a random number table to extract codes. The extracted first code was assigned to the main intervention, the second to the placebo and third to control groups. N/A Osteoarthritis. Intervention 1: Intervention group1: Sham group received massage on non-specific acupoints in Knee every other day during 10 sessions. Intervention 2: Intervention group 2: Acupressure for 10 sessions every other day, just one minute on any of the 8-acupoint on the knee(ST34,ST35,ST36,SP9,SP10,GB34,EX-LE2,EX-LE4) performed. Intervention 3: control group: without intervention, only continued to current nursing home treatments.