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Review of Opioid Sparing Interventional Pain Management Options and Techniques for Radiofrequency Ablations for Sacroiliac Joint Pain

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CURRENT PAIN AND HEADACHE REPORTS
Volume 26, Issue 11, Pages 855-862

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-022-01088-w

Keywords

Radiofrequency ablation; Sacroiliac joint; Pain; Pain management; Ontario; Pulsed radiofrequency treatment

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Radiofrequency ablation is a safe and effective treatment option for sacroiliac joint pain, offering accessibility to primary care physicians, reducing office visits for pain complaints, and serving as a non-opioid means of analgesia.
Purpose of Review The goal of this clinical review was to provide an update about the existing treatment options and associated evidence for various radiofrequency ablation techniques for sacroiliac joint pain. An electronic literature search on radiofrequency for the treatment of sacroiliac joint pain was conducted using PubMed, NCBI and Google Scholar. The following search keywords were used: radiofrequency ablation (cooled, pulsed, conventional, bipolar, intra-articular), sacroiliac joint and sacroiliac pain. The search was limited to human subjects, English language and articles with available full text. The bibliographic sections of all manuscripts were further searched for additional relevant citations. The full text of the relevant articles was reviewed by all the authors. Recent Findings Our study showed that radiofrequency ablation is a safe and effective treatment option that can be utilized to manage sacroiliac joint pain. It offers accessibility to the primary care physician, reduces office visits with pain as the primary complaint and provides the added benefit of acting as a non-opioid sparing means of analgesia.

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