Relief without replacement.

Knee arthritishas a new enemy

A thin electrode, placed near the nerve. Nothing is replaced, and no bone is cut.

Why the X-ray doesn't explain it

The joint wears.Then the nerve learns the pain.

Cartilage wear starts it. But after months of constant signalling, the nerves carrying that signal become overactive on their own — and stay that way even when imaging looks unchanged. Peripheral nerve stimulation is aimed at that signal. A thin lead is placed near the nerve. No joint is removed and no bone hardware goes in.

Check my knee Why my pain doesn’t match my X-ray

What is actuallyplaced

How the lead is placed

A thin lead, positioned near the nerve carrying the pain
No bone cut, and no part of the joint removed

Outpatient

Nothing is removed.It can come out again.

If the therapy is ever no longer wanted, the components can be removed by a physician.

Check my knee

Minimally invasive · Reversible · Outpatient

What actually happens

Nothing is decided on the first visit.

1
You’re evaluated
A specialist reviews your imaging and your pain history to see whether the pain you have is the kind nerve stimulation is used for. No procedure happens at this visit.
- No procedure at this visit
2
The nerve is identified
The specific nerves carrying your knee pain are located and targeted. That precision is what separates nerve stimulation from a general pain treatment.
- Nerve-specific
3
The therapy is placed
A thin lead is positioned near that nerve, as an outpatient procedure. No bone is cut and no part of the joint is removed.
- Outpatient
- No bone cut
4
You adjust it, and you can stop
You adjust the level of stimulation yourself day to day. If it is ever no longer wanted, the components can be removed by a physician.
- You set the level
- Removable by a physician

Who decides

What happens at each step is decided by the office you see, not by ARC. Ask them what their pathway involves before you agree to anything.

Check my knee What the procedure is like

Start here

Which one of these is you?

Whichever you pick becomes the first answer of the assessment, and the rest follow from it.

Surgery is on the calendar A surgeon has recommended it I’ve had the replacement and still hurt I’m just starting to look into this

Three questions in all, about a minute. It books nothing.

Educational only. ARC is not a healthcare provider and this is not a diagnosis.

Who arrives here

People arrive here with the date already booked, looking for what sits one rung below it.

Surgery is on the calendar

1 of 4

Four situations, and whichever one is yours is where the assessment starts.

Replacement isn’t the first step. It’s the last one.

Three rungs, in order. Most people are shown the third one first.

Where nerve stimulation sits

Preserving changes nothing about the joint. A replacement changes the joint itself. Nerve stimulation sits between the two, nearer the preserving end: it is a procedure, but no bone is cut and no part of the joint is removed.

ARC is not a healthcare provider. It does not treat, schedule or bill, and does not own the practices listed on this site.

Which rung is right for a particular knee is decided by the physician who examines it. Nothing on this page is medical advice, and ARC has no part in that decision.

Questions people ask

Read first.Decide after.

See every article →

Educational only. ARC Joint is not a healthcare provider, and nothing here is a diagnosis.

Library articles are written for people considering peripheral nerve stimulation and are reviewed for accuracy, but they describe the therapy in general. Whether it is appropriate for you is a decision only a physician who has examined you can make.

Who provides the care

Independent specialists. One simpler path forward.

ARC connects you with independent Arizona practices. Care is provided by the practice you see — ARC is not a healthcare provider and does not treat, schedule or bill.

Casa Grande · Chandler · Gilbert · Peoria · Phoenix · Scottsdale

Every office, and the specialty at each

See every office, its hours and who practises there →

Each practice is independently owned. ARC does not employ these physicians.

The ratings are Google's, read from each practice's own public listing, and they describe the practice as a whole — not this procedure, and not any one physician. Two locations of one practice can share a single listing, so the same rating may appear on both.

Check my knee See every office and its hours

ARC does not treat, schedule or bill.

It publishes what the options are and, if you ask it to, passes your answers to an independent Arizona practice near you.

Ask the location and your plan what is covered. ARC does not bill and cannot promise what a plan will pay.

How coverage for this gets decided →

The guide

The questions to ask before you agree to a knee replacement

8 pages, written from ARC’s library: what the ladder below surgery actually looks like, who nerve stimulation is not for, and fifteen questions to take into the room with you.

What is in it

What you are actually deciding
Whether this applies to you
Who it is not for
Fifteen questions for your appointment

Drawn from four articles that are on the site to read in full. Read them in the library instead if you would rather not download anything.

Open the guide

8 pages, 31 KB. No email, no form. It opens in a new tab and you can save or print it.

Or find out in about a minute whether this is even worth reading about.

Take the assessment — three questions →

ARC Joint is not a healthcare provider and do not give medical advice. Care is delivered by independent Arizona physician practices that are not owned by ARC. Nothing on this page is a diagnosis or a promise of a result — individual outcomes vary, and whether nerve stimulation is appropriate for you is a decision only a physician who has examined you can make.

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