Effects of Genicular Nerve Block in Knee Osteoarthritis

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2019-03-29
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Genicular nerve block is a safe and effective therapeutic procedure for intractable pain associated with chronic knee osteoarthritis (OA). There is increasing support for the neuropathic component to the knee OA pain. Investigators proposed that targeting treatment to the underlying pain mechanism can improve pain management in knee OA. There is a debate on injectable solutions used in nerve blocks. Investigators aimed to investigate the efficacy of genicular nerve block and to determine which solution should be appropriate for patients with knee osteoarthritis who have neuropathic or nociceptive pain.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Fatih Sultan Mehmet Training and Research Hospital
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• knee pain for more than 3 month.

• radiological tibiofemoral OA (Kellgren-Lawrence grade 2-4 )

Exclusion Criteria:

• acute knee pain, prior knee surgery, other connective tissue diseases that affected the knee, serious neurological or psychiatric disorders, steroid or hyaluronic acid injection therapy during the previous 3 months, sciatic pain, patients with polyneuropathy, anticoagulant medication use, pacemaker use, prior electroacupuncture treatment and physical treatment.