Knee osteoarthritis is a condition that causes chronic pain. The pain located in the area of the degenerated knee is sharp, stabbing, more intense with movement, and results in the forced limitation of the patient’s activities.
The application of radiofrequency (RF) to the branches of the joint nerve (genicular nerves) provides a painless and safe therapeutic technique for the palliative management of chronic pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis. This procedure is based on the theory of blocking painful stimuli (pain) to the spinal cord, resulting in relief from pain.
