HA weekly for 5 weeks, but the treatment group also received RFA at 70°C, although the timing of the RFA was not described. The precise nerves were also neither named, nor was it specified whether image guidance was used. Twenty-seven patients were randomized to each group and follow-up was obtained at the completion of intra-articular injections and 3 months. Outcome measures included pain intensity as measured on a VAS, life quality as measured on the 36-item Short-Form Health Survey, and function via the American Knee Society Score. Both groups showed improvement in pain and function, although the gains in the RFA group were statistically superior at all time periods. The RFA group also demonstrated significant improvement in quality of life at 3 months, while the control group didan animal.

Then He hit them with the clincher: “How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore, it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days. Then saith He to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other” (Matthew 12:13).

You would think the dramatic healing would have been all the authority Jesus needed to pass judgment on how to observe the Sabbath, but the men went out and conspired how they might destroy Him.

It was almost as though Jesus sought out opportunities to correct the errors of the Jews. On another occasion, He found an impotent man lying on a pallet. He could easily have said, “rise up and walk,” but that would