Fluoroscopic vs Ultrasound Guided Sacroiliac (SI) Joint Injection

Diskapi Teaching and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain, Chronic

Treatments: Procedure: Ultrasound-guided sacroiliac joint injection; Procedure: Flouroscopy-guided sacroiliac joint injection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05235295

126/05

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of intra-articular sacroiliac joint injection under fluoroscopy versus ultrasound guidance

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Low back and/or gluteal pain without radicular extension for more than 3 months
• Tenderness over the SI joint
• Pain score > 3 by Visual Analogue Scale

Exclusion criteria

• Malignancy
• Generalized or local infection
• Coagulopathy
• Allergy to drugs to be injected

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Fluoroscopic-guided sacroiliac joint injection

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Flouroscopy-guided sacroiliac joint injection

Ultrasound-guided sacroiliac joint injection

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Ultrasound-guided sacroiliac joint injection