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Clinical experience in the treatment of lumbar and cervical disk disease, knee arthritis and "frozen" shoulder, by injection of an oxygen-ozone mixture
G. Torri, and *F. Vaiano
Orthopedic clinic-Milan University, Milano, Italy; *Member of the National Board of SIOOT, Italy
Background: Ozonetherapy has found many applications in treatment of various orthopedic pathologies, and that's for its poor invasivity, the absence of secondary effects and for the low cost.
Materials and methods: 290 patients ageing between 23-80 years (range:35,5y)of wich 150 men and 140 women, has been treated for different spine disk abnormalities (disk protrusions and contained herniations, 20 ex- truded herniations,32 relapses of disk herniations)in 50 cases joined with asymptomatic spinal canal stenosis or facet joints arthritis.12 patients were treated for cervical spine disk disease, 8 patients for knee arthritis with synovitis and 8 for "frozen" shoulder syndrome. Patients affected by spinal disk disease have been treated for 12 session by two bilateral injections into paravertebral muscles, at the level of the discopathy, with an oxygen-ozone mixture; ozone concentration was of 20mcg/mlo2 for lumbar spine disk disease and of 10mcg/mlo2 for cervical spine. For knee arthritis and "frozen" shoulder, patients were treated with 6-10 injections of an O2-O3 gaseouse mixture (ozone concentration: 10mcg/mlo2)once a week.
Results: global evaluation has shown good and excellent results in 60%of lumbar and cervical disk disease, a mild and subjective improvement in 30% and fair results in 10%of cases. Excellent results were observed in patients treated for knee arthritis, while only poor results in patients affected by "frozen" shoulder.
Conclusion: despite a very high percentage of good result in spinal disk diseases, there is still to be clarified some mechanisms of action of a mixture of o2-o3 on spinal nerve root involvement.
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