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About this trial

Peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) is a drug-free pain management procedure that uses electrical impulses to target specific nerves and block pain signals. PNS helps decrease perception of pain, providing real answers to patients dealing with chronic knee pain. The case study discussed in this presentation is of the use of PNS targeting the superior lateral genicular nerve and the saphenous nerve for a patient with moderate to severe knee pain from osteoarthritis

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

adults between the ages of 30 and 70 years with a clinical diagnosis of moderate to severe knee OA who suffered knee pain.

Patients who cannot afford intra-articular injections or radiofrequency ablation (RFA).

patients who had failed 2 different oral pain medications and 6 weeks of physical therapy.

Disqualifiers

Patients with OA show improvement in pain after physiotherapy.

patients evaluated by an orthopaedic surgeon and deemed to be surgical candidates due to knee pathologies other than OA.

pregnant patients.

patients on anticoagulation therapy, who were not permitted to stop anticoagulation.

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • nerve stimulation using a nerve stimulator to the genicular nerve
  • nerve stimulation using a nerve stimulator to the saphenous nerve

Treatment groups

100 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups

Locations

1
Faculty of medicine, Tanta University Tanta Egypt

Sponsors and collaborators

Tanta University

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov