Ozone Therapy For Back Pain

Effectiveness and Safety

Ozone therapy is highly effective in relieving both acute and chronic back pain.
It is safe, convenient, and inexpensive.
Ozone has a short half-life of approximately 1 hour at room temperature.

Used in relieving pain in degenerative disc disease.
Superior option compared to steroid use.
Can be administered as a first-line treatment.
Both intradiscal and intramuscular injection of oxygen-ozone are successful approaches.

Reactivates the innate antioxidant system.
In disc herniation, ozone is injected into the disc space where it dissolves in interstitial water and forms H2O2 and hydroxyl radicals.
These radicals react with proteoglycans, leading to their breakdown, resulting in matrix degeneration with progressive shrinkage and disappearance of the herniated material.
The amount injected is 3–10 mL with an ozone concentration of about 30 μg/mL.
Shows a positive response in 70–80% of cases of patients with low spinal pain.

Acts as a pro-drug.
Inhibits inflammation, corrects ischemia and venous stasis.
Induces a reflex therapy effect by stimulating anti-nociceptor analgesic mechanisms.
Helps reduce pain, accelerate nerve tissue regeneration, slow degenerative disc disease, accelerate ligament healing, and facilitate fracture healing.
Very effective in alleviating osteoarthritis and several other joint-tendinitis affections.