Obturator Nerve Block With Femoral and Sciatic Block

Trinity Health Of New England

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nerve Block; Pain Medication

Treatments: Procedure: Sham Injection in pectineus muscle.; Procedure: Oburator Nerve block

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01409460

08-10-003

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate how many patients require the addition of the obturator nerve block in the recovery room after the total knee surgery. Also to study the efficacy of blocking the obturator nerve in controlling their knee pain.

Enrollment: 16 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• total knee replacement

Exclusion criteria

• Hisory of neurologica disease, diabetes, pregnancy, neuropathy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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16 participants in 2 patient groups

True Obturator Nerve Block

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Oburator Nerve block

Sham Block

Sham Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Sham Injection in pectineus muscle.