Analgesia for Knee – Past, Present, Future

Karina Gritsenko, MD

Dr. Karina Gritsenko presents an excellent overview of the diagnosis and treatment of knee pain. Dr. Gritsenko discusses the wide range of knee pain etiologies that guide differential diagnosis. She follows this with a discussion of conservative pain management, underscored by the orthopedic guidelines. Dr. Gritsenko advises on medications with level one evidence of safety and efficacy, radiofrequency ablation, peripheral nerve stimulation, and evidence-driven invasive procedures. Finally, she discusses new evidence in regenerative medicine, including stem cell research.