Die minimalinvasive Denervierung am Knie- und Schultergelenk.

Chronical, persistent pain of the shoulder or knee in DJD are especially at the knee mostly treated with the implantation of an artificial joint. Nevertheless there is a considerable percentage of patients that either do not want a replacement or are not suitable therefore. After a long development of looking for purely sensible branches of innervating nerves of the facet joints and the SIJ and treating pain there with an ablation of these nerves with radio frequency in the last 15 years also the ablation of sensible nerves at knee and shoulder was developed and established. The article shows the anatomical situation of theses nerves and the established techniques of treating knee- and shoulder pain with this method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]