Functional Outcome, Post Operative Pain
Conditions
Keywords
Radio-Frequency Ablation, Total Knee Arthroplasty, Genicular nerve, Total knee arthroplasty functional outcome
Brief summary
The aim of this study is to compare between conventional Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) and Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) combined with intra-operative Genicular Nerve Radio-Frequency Ablation (GNRFA), concerning post-operative functional outcome and pain scores in patients with advanced knee osteoarthritis
Detailed description
The aim of this study is to compare between conventional Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) and Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) combined with intra-operative Genicular Nerve Radio-Frequency Ablation (GNRFA), concerning post-operative functional outcome and pain scores in patients with advanced knee osteoarthritis Including 70 knees randomized using a computer-generated sequence into two groups, the first group underwent TKA combined with GNRFA, and the other group underwent TKA only. All the TKA surgeries were performed by a single surgeon including patients aged from fifty to eighty years with advanced primary knee osteoarthritis from both sexes
Interventions
PROCEDURETotal knee arthroplasty
Conventional Total knee arthroplasty operation performed
Genicular nerve radiofrequency ablation done with no modifications except being performed with total knee arthroplasty in the same setting
Sponsors
Ain Shams University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
50 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients with advanced knee osteoarthritis * Both sexes * Age from 50-80 years old
Exclusion criteria
* Patients underwent previous GNRFA * Patients underwent previous knee surgery * patients requiring constrained knee arthroplasty prosthesis (with extreme deformities)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Post operative pain | 6 months post operative | pain assessment using Visual analogue scale, minimum value is 0 meaning no pain and maximum value is 10 meaning the worst pain, higher score means worse outcome |
| Post operative knee functional outcome | 6 months | measuring the knee functional outcome post operative using oxford knee score, minimum score is 0 meaning the worse outcome and maximum is 48 meaning the best outcome. higher score means better outcome |
Countries
Egypt
Contacts
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORAssem Mohamed Mahmoud Ahmed, MD
Ain Shams University
Outcome results
None listed