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Nerve ablation — a new treatment for OA pain?

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Pain in osteoarthritis (OA) can be resistant to the medical and surgical treatments currently in use. Local denervation of the arthritic joint could offer a new approach to relieve OA pain, if the results of a new cryoneurolysis clinical trial are confirmed.

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  1. Arthritis Research UK Pain Centre, Academic Rheumatology, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Hucknall Road, NG5 1PB, Nottingham, UK

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Walsh, D. Nerve ablation — a new treatment for OA pain?. Nat Rev Rheumatol 13, 393–394 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrrheum.2017.78

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