Effectiveness of Ultrasound Versus Fluoroscopy Guided S1 Injections and Radiofrequency

Diskapi Teaching and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain, Chronic

Treatments: Procedure: Fluoroscopic-guided S1 Radiofrequency stimulation; Procedure: Ultrasound-guided S1 Radiofrequency stimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05247892

121/12

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aim to compare the effect of ultrasound versus floroscopy guided pulsed radiofrequency treatment of the lumbar dorsal root ganglion (DRG) of S1 in patients with a chronic lumbosacral radicular pain.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Persistent pain score ≥ 4 on VAS, not responding to traditional treatments
• Radicular pain in lumbar region for 3 months or more,
• Pattern of radiation suggestive for S1 pathology

Exclusion criteria

• Patient refusal
• Coagulopathy
• Uncooperative patients
• Malignant disorder or currently under treatment for a malignant disorder
• Pregnancy
• Leg pain due to localized hip or knee pathology

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Fluoroscopic-guided S1 Radiofrequency stimulation

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Fluoroscopic-guided S1 Radiofrequency stimulation

Ultrasound-guided S1 Radiofrequency stimulation

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Ultrasound-guided S1 Radiofrequency stimulation