Intermedius Genicular Nerve in the Treatment of Patients With Chondromalacia Patella

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-07-15
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Radiofrequency application is a treatment method that temporarily prevents the transmission of pain in the nerve where the application is made through the heat emitted by radio waves.Partial inhibition of the functions of the nerves carrying the joint pain sensation with this method is the basis of the treatment.The intermedius genicular nerve carries the sensation of subpatellar pain due to chondromalacia.In this study,investigators aim is to investigate the effect of radiofrequency neurotomy applied to the intermedius genicular nerve, which receives the sensation of the patella, on pain and knee function in patients with a diagnosis of chondromalacia patella who have anterior knee pain that does not resolve despite conservative treatment, under the guidance of ultrasonography.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Gaziler Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Education and Research Hospital
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male/female aged >18 years

• Diagnosis of chondromalacia patella after physical examination and MR imaging

• Those whose symptoms persist for >3 months

• Participating in the study voluntarily

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant patients

• History of previous knee surgery

• To have received physical therapy from the knee area in the last 6 months

• Previous RF treatment or any therapeutic injection of the knee such as steroid, hyaluronic acid within 3 months

• Those with pain radiating from the waist or hip

• Patients with neuropathic pain

• History of tumor, infectious, psychiatric disease, bleeding diathesis

• History of knee trauma in the last 6 months

• Those with systemic diseases such as hepatitis, coagulopathy

• Patients with BMI >40

• Finding a leg length difference