Minimally Invasive Oxygen-Ozone Therapy for Lumbar Disk Herniation
 

Minimally Invasive Oxygen-Ozone Therapy for Lumbar Disk Herniation


Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Oxygen-ozone therapy is a minimally invasive treatment for lumbar disk herniation that exploits the biochemical properties of a gas mixture of oxygen and ozone. We assessed the therapeutic outcome of oxygen-ozone therapy and compared the outcome of administering medical ozone alone with the outcome of medical ozone followed by injection of a corticosteroid and an anesthetic at the same session.
METHODS: Six hundred patients were treated with a single session of oxygen-ozone therapy. All presented with clinical signs of lumbar disk nerve root compression, with CT and/or MR evidence of contained disk herniation. Three hundred patients (group A) received an intradiscal (4 mL) and periganglionic (8 mL) injection of an oxygen-ozone mixture at an ozone concentration of 27 μg/mL. The other 300 patients (group B) received, in addition, a periganglionic injection of corticosteroid and anesthetic. Therapeutic outcome was assessed 6 months after treatment by using a modified MacNab method. Results were evaluated by two observers blinded to patient distribution within the two groups.
RESULTS: A satisfactory therapeutic outcome was obtained in both groups. In group A, treatment was a success (excellent or good outcome) in 70.3% and deemed a failure (poor outcome or recourse to surgery) in the remaining 29.7%. In group B, treatment was a success in 78.3% and deemed a failure in the remaining 21.7%. The difference in outcome between the two groups was statistically significant (P < .05).
CONCLUSION: Combined intradiscal and periganglionic injection of medical ozone and periganglionic injection of steroids has a cumulative effect that enhances the overall outcome of treatment for pain caused by disk herniation. Oxygen-ozone therapy is a useful treatment for lumbar disk herniation that has failed to respond to conservative management.

John, thanks for the article.

For anyone looking for more info... I'm linking a thread about his experience with the ozone prolo treatment.

http://www.ispine.org/forum/ispine/2...lotherapy.html

Mark

John, you said in an earlier post that you had Ozone done in the US. Where?

If someone is interested there is a NJ doc doing this procedure
Alternative Disc Therapy Medical Ozone Pain Management
It's done in a surgerical center with anesthesia.

There are many docs in the US that are injecting into the muscle and are easy to find. Dr Bleiwiess does both.

Dr Shallenberger has developed the Prolozone injections, into the muscle.
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