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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3848</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url">http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.131236</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Effectiveness of Fluoroscopy-Guided Genicular Nerve Radiofrequency Ablation in the Management of Chronic Osteoarthritis of Knee: A Prospective Study&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>SK</surname><given-names>Sahu</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A</surname><given-names>Pandey</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A</surname><given-names>Dash</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>22</day><month>06</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>2)</volume><issue/><fpage>193</fpage><lpage>196</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Chronic osteoarthritis of the knee is a frequently encountered painful condition in the elderly and requires an astute approach for its treatment. The etiologies of chronic osteoarthritis are multiple:-age, obesity, hereditary, female preponderance, the association of diseases such as thyroid disorder, rheumatoid arthritis increases the risk significantly. Objective: The effectiveness of nonsurgical options in providing pain relief and functional improvement is generally inadequate. Method: Inclusion criteria:- No response to conservative management for a minimum of 3 months. Tibia femoral osteoarthritis (Kellgren-Lawrence) grade 3-4 on radiological evaluation. Exclusion criteria: Acute knee pain, Prior knee surgery, Patients on anticoagulant medications, psychiatric illness, Steroid/ Hyaluronic injections taken in the past 3 months. Result: The pain intensity was much lower post block when compared to baseline pre-procedure values of both the indices throughout 6 months follow up. The patient__ampersandsignrsquo;s painless standing/mobility period also increased significantly after injection as it was before the procedure. Conclusion: Notable heterogeneity (p __ampersandsignlt; 0.001) was noticed and concluded the Funnel Plot. In our result, it was observed that the age group 30-39 had a significantly higher mortality rate.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Chronic osteoarthritis of knee</kwd><kwd> Genicular nerve</kwd><kwd> Radiofrequency ablation</kwd><kwd> Visual analogue score</kwd><kwd> Oxford knee score</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
