Warning!Are You Making Any of These 3 Common Deadly Knee Treatment Mistakes?
"How to Get Rid of Your Knee Pain Once and For All - The Right Way!
Don't Get Radiofrequency Treatment for Your Knee Arthritis Pain!
By Dr. Paul Anderson M.D. Sports Medicine and Pain Expert
This old-fashion knee pain treatment comes back into fashion now and then. And it's a very bad knee treatment with terrible long-term results. Basically, a radiofrequency needle is inserted through the skin and the knees pain nerves are burned away. Sounds like a great idea...
And the short term knee pain relief results are excellent but...
When the nerve grows back anywhere from 3- 6 months or more - and they always do - your knee pain is usally twice as bad.
A recent study showed that this treatment was effective for helping with knee arthritis pain but they only reviewed up to 3 months. If they had checked everyone after a year almost all everyone would be in far more knee pain than before the treatment.
DO NOT GET THIS KNEE TREATMENT.
Here's the study and again. Pain. 2011 Mar;152(3):481-7. Epub 2010 Nov 4.
Radiofrequency treatment relieves chronic knee osteoarthritis pain: a double-blind randomized controlled trial Choi WJ, Hwang SJ, Song JG, Leem JG, Kang YU, Park PH, Shin JW. Chronic osteoarthritis (OA) pain of the knee is often not effectively managed with current non-pharmacological or pharmacological treatments. Radiofrequency (RF) neurotomy is a therapeutic alternative for chronic pain. We investigated whether RF neurotomy applied to articular nerve branches (genicular nerves) was effective in relieving chronic knee arthritis joint pain. The study involved 38 elderly patients with (a) severe knee arthritis pain lasting more than 3 months, (b) positive response to a diagnostic genicular nerve block and (c) no response to conservative treatments.
Patients were randomly assigned to receive percutaneous RF genicular neurotomy under fluoroscopic guidance (RF group; n=19) or the same procedure without effective neurotomy (control group; n=19). Visual analogue scale (VAS), Oxford knee scores, and global perceived effect on a 7-point scale were measured at baseline and at 1, 4, and 12weeks post-procedure. VAS scores showed that the RF group had less knee joint pain at 4 (p<0.001) and 12 (p<0.001) weeks compared with the control group. Oxford knee scores showed similar findings (p<0.001). In the RF group, 10/17 (59%), 11/17 (65%) and 10/17 (59%) achieved at least 50% knee pain relief at 1, 4, and 12 weeks, respectively. No patient reported a post-procedure adverse event during the follow-up period. RF neurotomy of genicular nerves leads to significant pain reduction and functional improvement in a subset of elderly chronic knee osteoarthritis pain, and thus may be an effective treatment in such cases. Further trials with larger sample size and longer follow-up are warranted. My
Comments- yes indeed longer follow-up is needed which will show this knee treatment doesn't work long term! Every long term follow-up we done on patients that received this treatment were in more knee pain. Everyone.
