Pain Control in Hip Arthroscopy: Comparing Lumbar Plexus Versus Peri-capsular Injection

Washington Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hip Arthroscopy; Nerve Block

Treatments: Procedure: Pericapsular injection; Procedure: Lumbar Plexus BLock

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03244631

20171307

Details and patient eligibility

About

Comparison of lumbar plexus nerve block versus pericapsular injection for pain control during hip arthroscopy

Full description

The purpose of this study is to compare two different methods of pain control during and after hip arthroscopy surgery. It is not clear which of many different pain control methods are ideal to reduce pain for patients; consequently, the investigators are performing this study to compare the two main choices for pain control commonly used in order to identify if either is superior to the other.

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Patient scheduled to undergo hip arthroscopy with Dr. Wolff
2. Patient age between 25 and 60 years of age.

Exclusion criteria

1. Patient has known allergy to ropivicaine or morphine.
2. Patient unable to speak/read English (No translators available in clinic site).
3. Pregnant female.
4. Patient has a pre-operative narcotic use for hip pain
5. Patient has pre-existing chronic pain disorder (i.e. fibromyalgia)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

Lumbar Plexus Block

Active Comparator group

Description:

A lumbar plexus 'nerve block' is a procedure in which local anesthetic ("numbing medicine") is injected around a specific group of nerves to provide pain relief directly to the nerves supplying the area of the body undergoing surgery.

Treatment:

Procedure: Lumbar Plexus BLock

Pericapsular Injection

Active Comparator group

Description:

The pericapsular injection is a procedure in which local anesthetic ("numbing medicine") is injected around the hip joint to provide direct pain relief to the area undergoing surgery.

Treatment:

Procedure: Pericapsular injection