Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 5:30 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 5:30 PM
NCT ID:
NCT05591768
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* (1) outpatient clinic with osteoarthritis-character chronic knee pain, OA grades II-IV (Kellgren and Lawrence scale).
(2) Patients not responding to other treatments as physiotherapy, oral analgesics, and intraarticular injection with hyaluronic acids or steroids.
(3) Patients refused surgery. (4) Patients after failed conservative treatment for 3 months and reported more than 50% pain relief after diagnostic genicular nerve block with 2% of 2 mL lidocaine on superior lateral, superior medial and inferior medial genicular nerves.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Patients with acute knee pain, previous knee surgery, other connective tissue disorders affecting the knee.
2. serious neurologic or psychiatric disorders, those had previously received radiofrequency ablation therapy for similar symptoms.
3. contraindications for genicular nerve block or genicular nerve RF (active infection, bleeding disorders, current use of anticoagulants or antiplatelets, allergy against the drugs used during the protocol, pregnancy, cardiac pacemaker.
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Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
40 Years
Maximum Age:
60 Years
Study:
NCT05591768
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT05591768