People suffering from sciatica gain lasting relief from a procedure that uses a fine needle to heat nerve roots near the spine, a new clinical trial shows.
WEDNESDAY, March 29, 2023 --
People with sciatica have a sharp pain that shoots through their hips and buttocks and down one leg. The condition is typically caused by a herniated or slipped spinal disc that’s putting pressure on the sciatic nerve, the largest nerve on the body. The clinical trial added pulsed RF to the standard steroid injection to see if it would provide better, longer-lasting pain relief.
Napoli said he thinks the two treatments, pulsed RF and steroids, work together, adding to the steroids’ anti-inflammatory activity and pulsed RF’s nerve signal disruption. About 68% of the pulsed RF group experienced complete pain relief, compared with 13% of the steroid group. “The results of the current study are strikingly consistent with what we reported,” Cheng said. “A significant strength of this study is that it has a much larger sample size and it is a multicenter study, providing stronger evidence supporting the combination therapy.”
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