Overview
The project will evaluate the effectiveness of Cryoneurolysis versus radiofrequency procedures in adult patients who are resistant to traditional treatment for knee pain. They are a drug-free pain management procedure.
Description
The main approach to OA management is pain control. Cryoneurolysis versus radiofrequency in decreasing knee pain.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- adults between the ages of 30 and 70 years with a clinical diagnosis of refractory knee OA who suffered from knee pain.
- Patients who cannot afford intra-articular injections.
- patients who had failed 2 different oral pain medications, and 6 weeks of physical therapy.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with OA show improvement in pain after physiotherapy.
- patients evaluated by an orthopedic 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.
- patients with previous trauma, neurological or endocrine diseases like diabetes mellitus, and knee tumors; and patients with inflammatory arthritis.
- people who had received an intra-articular knee injection within the last 6 months.
- Patients with tendon tears, bursitis, or calcified tendonitis as proven by imaging.
