Open AccessThe Treatment of Joint Pain with Intra-articular Pulsed Radiofrequency
Author(s) -
Pietro Schianchi,
Menno E. Sluijter,
Susan Balogh
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anesthesiology and pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.438
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2228-7531
pISSN - 2228-7523
DOI - 10.5812/aapm.10259
Subject(s) - medicine , pulsed radiofrequency , shoulders , surgery , adverse effect , retrospective cohort study , joint pain , chronic pain , anesthesia , pain relief , physical therapy
The intra-articular (IA) application of pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) for pain in small and large joints represents a recent development that has proven to be effective in many cases. We performed a retrospective study of 89 such procedures in 57 consecutive patients with chronic articular pain.