Treatment for Sacroiliac Joint Pain Using Platelet-rich Plasma (PRP) Versus Steroid/Anesthetic

Inclusion Criteria3

• 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
• % 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).