Journal of Pain Management & Medicine

Department of Anesthesia, King Abdullah Medical City, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Publications

• Research Article   
  Comparison of Cooled Radiofrequency Ablation and Genicular Nerve Blockade for the Treatment of Osteoarthritic Knee Pain: A Prospective Randomized Double-Blind Study
  Author(s): Samer Khojah, Eyad Mitwali, Osama AlAhdal and Abdullah Kaki*
  
  Background: Osteoarthritis is a chronic degenerative disease that can represent a source of significant pain. When conservative therapies fail to relief the pain and surgery is not an option. Other choices like Genicular Nerve Blockade (GNB) using a mixture of local anesthetic agents and steroids or genicular nerve ablation using a Cooled Radio Frequency Ablation (CRFA) will be the option. Methods: In this prospective randomized double-blind study, 41 patients with chronic osteoarthritic knee pain were randomly assigned to either CRFA (n=21) of genicular nerves or GNB (n=20) at the superomedial, superolateral, and inferomedial aspects of the knee. Pain status and patient function were assessed using numerical pain score and Sfax Western Ontario McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis (WOMAC) index respectively, at 3, 6, 9, and 1.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2684-1320.23.9.190

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