FRIDAY, March 13, 2009 (Health.com) — Ozone is considered pollution on ground level and an environmental protector when it’s in the earth’s atmosphere (that’s why a hole in the ozone is a bad thing).
Now it seems the molecule is a bit of a health paradox, too. A large new study released this week found that breathing in ozone-laden smog increases the risk of dying of respiratory diseases. But a second group of researchers also reported that injecting a small amount of ozone into a bad back may ease chronic pain caused by a herniated disc.
Injections of ozone and oxygen can shrink a disc that’s bulging out and putting pressure on surrounding nerves and tissue, according to Kieran Murphy, MD, who presented data on the technique at the Society of Interventional Radiology meeting in Chicago.
About 20,000 people in Europe have been treated with the ozone-injection technique, says Dr. Murphy, who presented data at the meeting on 8,000 patients treated in Italy and Austria. He says the success rate is 70 to 75 percent in terms of pain relief, and few back pain patients need more than one injection. (About 6 out of 50 in an early trial, he says).
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I heard about this 3 years ago and was told i would be an excellent candidate for this procedure,but it was not approved by the fda and too recieve this i would have to go to europe.If anyone knows were it can be done in the us please help me???
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Northern Italy has a few hospitals that conduct ozone therapy for bulging discs and back pain. Really good doctors are handling this in the friuli region.
This is an amazing idea and very innovative. I have never heard of such a thing. Great article!
There is a pain management doctor in Mishawaka, IN doing the ozone injections.
I know of someone doing it by cupping it, with no injections here in the U.S.
Contact me jaimeph01@hotmail.com
Please send me Where with phone numbers for ozone injections for spinal herniated disc.
send me some phone no of indian patients preferably doctors,i may be willing to go for this procedure