Bupivacaine or Radiofrequency for Shoulder Pain

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2023-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Comparative study between pulsed radiofrequency in suprascapular nerve or bupivacaine block for chronic shoulder pain

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Federal University of São Paulo
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Age over 18 years old,

• Chronic shoulder pain (more than 3 months)

• Clinical and imaging diagnosis:

rotator cuff injury adhesive capsulitis supraspinatus tendinopathy bicipital tendinitis impingement syndrome subscapularis tendinopathy subacromial and subdeltoid arthrosis acromioclavicular arthrosis subdeltoid subacromial bursitis

• Pain intensity ≥4 on movement, on a numerical scale from zero to 10 (where zero means no pain and 10 the most intense pain imaginable).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Arrhythmia

• Cognitive change (inability to answer questions)

• Psychiatric illness

• Infection at the site of the procedure,

• Coagulopathy,

• Use of anticoagulants,

• Hypersensitivity to medications

• Pregnant

• Use of pacemaker