• Mila Pastrak, Nikola Vladicic, Jordan Sam, Bruce Vrooman, Frederick Ma, Ammar Mahmoud, James S Khan, Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Farhan Khandwalla, Scott McGilvray, and Ognjen Visnjevac.
• McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2022 Nov 1; 26 (11): 855-862.

Purpose Of ReviewThe 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 FindingsOur 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.© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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