Treatment for Sacroiliac Joint Pain Using Platelet-rich Plasma (PRP) Versus Steroid/Anesthetic

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Conditions studied: Low Back Pain, Sacroiliac Joint Synovitis

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine if platelet-rich plasma is superior to steroid/anesthetic for the treatment of sacroiliac joint pain.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05121961

Run by

University of Utah

People needed

50

Starts

2020-02-22

Expected to finish

2025-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-14

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adult (>18 y/o) males and females referred for therapeutic injection to the investigators spine interventional service by a physiatrist or pain anesthesiologist with a clinical diagnosis of SIJ pain confirmed by history
• 50% or greater reduction in pain by a diagnostic anesthetic block using no more than 1.5 cc 2% lidocaine performed under imaging guidance by a pain interventionalist (PM\&R, Pain Anesthesia, or Neuroradiology Spine Intervention).
• Baseline pain must be >/=4 by numeric rating scale (NRS), at least 6 weeks in chronicity, and must not be multi-factorial (related to radiculopathy or axial pain localizing elsewhere) by physical examination or confounding medical history (infection, inflammatory spondyloarthropathy, or osseous metastatic disease).

You may not qualify if…

• SIJ steroid treatment within the prior 6 months.
• Patients with a history of infection currently on antibiotic therapy
• Usage of systemic immunosuppressants
• Pregnancy

Where it is running

• University of Utah — Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
• Veterans Administration Salt Lake City Health Care System — Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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