Radiofrequency Neurotomy In Relieving Chronic Knee Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03224637
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Osteoarthritis (OA) affects aged above 45 years. RF has been used for several painful conditions. There have been a few attempts to use RF current for the treatment of painful conditions of joints of the extremities. It was also used for the treatment of painful conditions of the hip joint.
Study details
- Official title
- Fluoroscopic Guided Radiofrequency of Genicular Nerves for Pain Alleviation in Chronic Knee Osteoarthritis : A Single-blind Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: radiofrequency
- Drug: Paracetamol (conventional)
- Drug: Ketorolac Tromethamine (conventional)
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
- Start date
- 2014-07
- Primary completion
- 2015-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 30 Years to 70 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Egypt
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * chronic arthritis according to the American College of Rheumatology criteria * diagnosed radiologically patients in stage 3 and 4, according to the Kellgren-Lawrence classification Exclusion Criteria: * other causes of pain such as radiculopathy, neurological disorders, or intermittent claudication. * patients receive intraarticular steroid or hyaluronic acids during previous three months. * patients did previous knee surgery. * Patients with general contraindication to the application of invasive intervention such as hemorrhage, coagulation disorder, systemic infection or local infection. * patients with other connective tissue disease affecting the knee. And 6-psychiatric disorders.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03224637