Ultrasound-Guided Suprascapular Pulsed Radiofrequency (PRF)

Effects of Ultrasound-Guided Suprascapular Pulsed Radiofrequency Therapy on Chronic Shoulder Pain

Shoulder pain is the second most common musculoskeletal disease in adults, and it often becomes chronic due to treatment difficulties.

Pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) therapy has become increasingly popular in the treatment of chronic shoulder pain due to its long duration of action and non-destructive method.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: PAIN, INTRACTABLE, Shoulder
• Intervention / Treatment: Procedure: Ultrasound-Guided Suprascapular Pulsed Radiofrequency .

Detailed Description

These patients lacked pain control despite systemic analgesics and conservative therapy and applied to our pain polyclinics for shoulder pain lasting at least 3 months.

The ultrasound-guided SSPRF was performed in those patients with a reduction of 50% or more VAS score and those that reported healing in the AROM in the diagnostic SNB.

The resting, motion and sleeping shoulder pain assessments of the patients were done using a visual analog scale (VAS). The shoulder joint function was assessed using the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI) questionnaire and the active range of motion (AROM) of the joint was measured using a goniometer In this study, investigators aimed to reveal the effects of ultrasound-guided suprascapular PRF (SSPRF) therapy applied to patients with chronic shoulder pain on both shoulder pain and function.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 74

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: N/A
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

shoulder pain lasting at least 3 months.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients 18 years of age or older who were diagnosed with at least one of the following: adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder (M75.0), rotator cuff syndrome (M75.1), and impingement syndrome of shoulder (M75.4) according to the ICD-10 classifications. These patients lacked pain control despite systemic analgesics and conservative therapy (like physiotherapy) and applied to our pain polyclinics for shoulder pain lasting at least 3 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients with other diseases causing chronic pain, those with neuropathic pain, those who had undergone surgery on the same shoulder, those with an allergy history from local anesthesia, those with abnormal coagulation tests, and those with cardiac pacemakers were excluded from this study.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Other
• Time Perspectives: Retrospective

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Evaluation of The Efficacy of Ultrasound-Guided Suprascapular Pulsed Radiofrequency	Retroscopic study	1 years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Sakarya University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 1, 2016
• Study Completion (Actual): March 1, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 13, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 15, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): August 16, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 16, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 15, 2017
• Last Verified: August 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Pain, Intractable
• Other Study ID Numbers: Sakaray University

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No