Parallel Versus Perpendicular Technique for Genicular Radiofrequency

Diskapi Teaching and Research Hospital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Knee Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Procedure: Parallel Group; Procedure: Perpendicular Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05528965

139/27

Details and patient eligibility

About

Although there are different ways of performing genicular nerve radiofrequency on knee pain, to our knowledge, there is no stuies comparing the clinical outcomes of a parallel technique vs. a perpendicular technique. We aimed to compare the effectiveness of these both techniques.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

• Intra-articular injections in the knee during the 3 months prior to procedure
• Chronic pain syndrome
• Lumbar radicular pain
• Patients who are unwilling or mentally incapable to complete the study questionnaires.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Perpendicular Group

Experimental group

Description:

Perpendicular genicular radiofrequency application

Treatment:

Procedure: Perpendicular Group

Parallel Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Parallel genicular radiofrequency application

Treatment:

Procedure: Parallel Group