Pulsed Radiofrequency for Frozen Shoulder Chronic Pain (PRFFSCP)

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2020-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

this study to detect the effect of pulsed radiofrequency to the suprascapular nerve in treating chronic pain and to evaluate range of motion of shoulder joint after the intervention

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Treatments: Analgesics; Aspirin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients who are complaining of chronic pain due to frozen shoulder for more than 3 weeks.

• All of them will be above 30 years and from areas nearby our hospital to make the follow up easy and complete.

• All participants will be ASA physical status I-III and random blood glucose will be measured 1 week before intervention.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Those with infection at site of injection, coagulopathy or other bleeding diathesis, pre-existing neurologic deficit in targeted region, those with history of chronic opioid use and those who refused to participate in the study.