Ozone therapy in diseases of spine: Review of cases

Abstract

The objective of this revision of clinical cases is to demonstrate the therapeutic effectiveness of ozone therapy in cases of hernial discs and arthrosis vertebral in the lumbar sacral region. A total of 4 patients were collected: Two diagnosed with lumbar disc herniation; and two with discartrosis in the lumbar sacral region, in Ozonocenter Medical Center of Quito, Ecuador, in the second half 2016. The patients have a clinically signs of the disease: Lumbar pain, gluteal pain, lumbar pain at walking, pain of stay seat for large periods of time. Nuclear magnetic resonance studies (MRI) of lumbar sacral region were used to corroborate the presence, type and size of the illness before and after the treatment. In the four patients, we have reduction of the size of protrusions discs and improve of discartrosis. Is made a follow-up to those patients monthly during six months, remaining asymptomatic during that period. In conclusion, ozone therapy is an excellent medical procedure for the resolutions of disc protrusions and discartrosis in the lumbar sacral level.