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Lead
University of Utah
With
Radiological Society of North America
All patients with sacroiliac joint pain diagnosed by a back pain specialist will undergo physical examination maneuvers and a test lidocaine injection of the joint. Patients who meet eligibility requirements will be randomized in a single-blind randomized controlled manner with a 50% chance of receiving platelet-rich plasma versus steroid/anesthetic injection of the sacroiliac joint(s).
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Adult (\>18 y/o) males and females referred for therapeutic injection to the investigators spine interventional service by a physiatrist or pain anesthesiologist with a clinical diagnosis of SIJ pain confirmed by history
50% or greater reduction in pain by a diagnostic anesthetic block using no more than 1.5 cc 2% lidocaine performed under imaging guidance by a pain interventionalist (PM\&R, Pain Anesthesia, or Neuroradiology Spine Intervention).
Baseline pain must be \>/=4 by numeric rating scale (NRS), at least 6 weeks in chronicity, and must not be multi-factorial (related to radiculopathy or axial pain localizing elsewhere) by physical examination or confounding medical history (infection, inflammatory spondyloarthropathy, or osseous metastatic disease).
You may not be if
SIJ steroid treatment within the prior 6 months.
Patients with a history of infection currently on antibiotic therapy
