normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa background: osteoarthritis is one of the most common diseases and the knee is the most commonly affected joint. intra-articular prolotherapy is being utilized in acute and chronic pain management setting. this study was designed to compare the efficacy of three methods of intra-articular knee joint therapies with erythropoietin, dextrose, and pulsed ra...

BACKGROUND One of the potential side effects with radiofrequency ablation (RFA) includes painful cutaneous dysesthesias and increased pain due to neuritis or neurogenic inflammation. This pain may require the prescription of opioids or non-opioid analgesics to control post-procedural pain and discomfort. OBJECTIVES The goal of this study is to compare post-procedural pain scores and post-proc...

THE search for treatments that relieve chronic pain is expanding and includes biobehavioral techniques, the discovery of new drugs, novel routes of drug administration, neuroablative treatments, and innovative surgical procedures. The use of less invasive, interventional strategies for chronic pain relief has gained popularity since the publication of evidence from randomized controlled trials....

Occipital neuralgia is a condition manifested by chronic occipital headaches and is thought to be caused by irritation or trauma to the greater occipital nerve (GON). Treatment for occipital neuralgia includes medications, nerve blocks, and pulsed radiofrequency ablation (PRFA). Landmark-guided GON blocks are the mainstay in both the diagnosis and treatment of occipital neuralgia. Ultrasound is...

This report describes a case of bilateral greater occipital neuralgia treated with cooled radiofrequency ablation. The case is considered in relation to a review of greater occipital neuralgia, continuous thermal and pulsed radiofrequency ablation, and current medical literature on cooled radiofrequency ablation. In this case, a 35-year-old female with a 2.5-year history of chronic suboccipital...

Sluijter et al.8 assumed that, because the tissue temperature was kept below the thermal destructive range, thermal tissue injury was avoided. By using mathematical calculations, they further showed that the high-density electrical currents generated at the electrode tip stressed the cellular membranes and biomolecules and caused altered cell function, leading to cell injury. Later investigator...

We describe a rare case of pulsed radiofrequency treatment for pain relief associated with meralgia paresthetica. A 58-year-old female presented with pain in the left anterior lateral thigh. An imaging study revealed no acute lesions compared with a previous imaging study, and diagnosis of meralgia paresthetica was made. She received temporary pain relief with lateral femoral cutaneous nerve bl...

INTRODUCTION The goals for the management of patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee are to control pain and to minimise disability. Because the number of patients will increase as the population ages, alternative approaches to alleviate their joint pain other than conventional treatments are necessary. The purpose of this article is to present a refined protocol to determine if there is ...

Radiofrequency neurotomy (RFN) of the medial branches (MB) of the lumbar dorsal rami is a common procedure to treat facetogenic backache. Serious complications are unusual when guidelines are followed (1). We report for the first time, the development of severely painful camptocormia (inability to straighten the back in the upright position that disappears in the recumbent position) as a compli...