Comparison of two different methods of nerve block for osteoarthritis knee pai
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Osteoarthritis knee patients
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Chronic knee pain patients having VNRS more than 5 , KL grading of 2 or more not responding to treatment modalities like physiotherapy, oral analgesics and intra-articular injection with hyaluronic acid or steroids for more than 3 months.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients age less than 18 years and more than 80 years,acute knee pain, prior knee surgery, connective tissue disorders, neurological or. psychiatric disorders, knee injection with steroid or hyaluronic acid within three months, sciatic pain, on anticoagulant medication, pacemakers and prior eletroacupuncture treatment
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Proportion of patients achieving atleast 50% pain reduction at the 3 month from baseline verbal numerical rating scaleTimepoint: 15 days, 1 month, 2 month and 3 month
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Mean change in verbal numeric rating scale and western Ontario and McMaster osteoarthritis indexTimepoint: 15 days, 1 month, 2 month and 3 month