Ultrasound-Guided Pulsed Radiofrequency In The Treatment Of Patients With Osteoarthritis Knee (USPRFGENOAK)
Recruiting now · Not applicable · Has a placebo group
Conditions studied: Osteoarthritis, Knee
In brief
The purpose of this study is to determine if patients with chronic painful knee osteoarthritis experience meaningful and long-term improvement in pain, function, and analgesic use after ultrasound-guided pulsed radiofrequency of the genicular nerves following a double diagnostic genicular nerve blocks.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02915120
- Run by
- Hospital Son Llatzer
- People needed
- 142
- Starts
- 2017-03-27
- Expected to finish
- 2024-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2024-11-12
Who can join
Age: 40 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Chronic knee pain with pain intensity of at least 4 out 10 on the VAS on most or all days for more than 3 months
- Patients of either sex with primary osteoarthritis of one or both knees fulfilling diagnostic criteria for osteoarthritis knee laid down by American College of Rheumatology.
- Patients also had to have a Kellgren-Lawrence (radiologic criterion) score of at least 2
- Pain resistant to conventional therapy including NSAIDs, opioids, muscle relaxants, oral steroids, physical therapy, and intra-articular injection therapy.
You may not qualify if…
- The patients with secondary osteoarthritis of knees
- Associated systemic arthropathies, e.g. rheumatoid arthritis and gout
- Previous radiofrequency ablation treatment for similar symptoms.
- Intra-articular knee corticosteroid or hyaluronic acid injection in the past 3 months.
- Active systemic or local infections at the site of proposed needle and electrode placement.
- Coagulopathy or other bleeding disorder
- Cognitive deficit.
- Unstable medical or psychiatric illness.
- Previous knee joint replacement surgery
- Patients missing two or more appointments consecutively were excluded from the study
Where it is running
- Son Llatzer University Hospital — Palma, Balear Islands, Spain (enrolling)
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