The 2019 ACR/Arthritis Foundation guideline strongly recommends topical NSAID…
The 2019 ACR/Arthritis Foundation guideline strongly recommends topical NSAIDs (such as diclofenac gel) for knee osteoarthritis and suggests trying them before oral NSAIDs, because applying the drug to the skin lowers the risk of stomach, kidney, and heart side effects.
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- Type
- evidence-claim
- Domain
- knee-osteoarthritis
- Grade
- A
- License
- proprietary-research-use
- instance
- m324
- domain_slug
- knee-osteoarthritis
- pubmed_ids
- 31908163
- evidence_grade
- A
- tags
- topical-NSAID,what-works,guideline,safety,R1-verified-20260601
- source_ids
- PMID-31908163
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