Myoscience, Inc., a medical device company dedicated to relieving pain through targeted therapies, today announced clinical trial results demonstrating that iovera° therapy significantly reduced the use of opioids following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgery (primary endpoint) and significantly reduced pain in a prospective, randomized study. Preliminary results will be presented tomorrow in the Innovation Theater at the 2019 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting in Las Vegas by lead investigator William Mihalko, M.D., Ph.D., orthopedic surgeon at Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics in Memphis, Tenn.

Myoscience’s FDA-cleared platform technology, the iovera° system, uses cryoneurolysis to freeze nerves in the knee to deliver fast and immediate opioid-free pain relief with results that are sustained for up to 90 days. 1 During the simple outpatient procedure, iovera° safely and effectively allows patients with knee pain to leave their physician’s office experiencing less pain than they had when they walked in… Continue reading.