Intra-Articular 0.5 % Lidocaine Injection for Osteoarthritis

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

In this study, investigators compared the efficacy of intra-articular 0.5% lidocaine and saline injection on pain, stiffness and physical function in patients with osteoarthritis.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: H. Evren Eker
• Collaborator: Baskent University
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• knee pain for more than 25 of the past 30 days, morning stiffness or less than 30 minutes, crepitation in the knee

• pain for more than 25 of the past 30 days and osteophytes on x-ray examination of the knees indicating knee OA

Exclusion Criteria:

• the knees with a history of mechanical derangement, fibromyalgia, skin lesions and other risk factors of infection, therapy with anticoagulants and trauma/surgery