Predictive Values for the Outcome of Genicular Nerve Radiofrequency Ablation for Chronic Knee Pain

Diskapi Teaching and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoarthritis, Knee

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05222776

122/03

Details and patient eligibility

About

Researchers are trying to assess a predictive value or correlation between patient and procedural characteristics and outcome measures results after genicular nerve radiofrequency ablation.

Full description

Genicular nerve radiofrequency stimulation procedure is an effective treatment for patients with chronic pain due to knee osteoarthritis; however, little is known about factors that predict procedure success. This study evaluated correlation between patient characteristics and procedural characteristics and pain improvement after ultrasound guided genicular nerve radiofrequency stimulation procedure.

Enrollment: 206 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient's 18 years or older
• Patients who recently underwent ultrasound guided genicular nerve radiofrequency (RF) procedure

Exclusion criteria

• lack of documentation of predictive factors to assess outcome
• Patients in whom adequate follow-up data was not available
• Patients who were prescribed a new analgesic drug or received concurrent treatments for different pain sources during the follow-up period, that could affect interpretation of genicular RF treatment results.