However, Dr. Stainken notes that ozone injections have not been studied in placebo-controlled trials. That’s important because many people with back pain get better without injections or surgeries. Right now it’s impossible to say how many people who improved after the ozone-injection therapy would have gotten better without the injections.
“I think it’s something to watch,” says Dr. Stainken, who’s at the Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, Rhode Island. The results look “strongly encouraging,” he says, but “clearly that doesn’t mean that we don’t need to do the necessary trials to prove that it’s important.”
However, Stuart Kahn, MD, director of Spine and Pain Rehabilitation at the Spine Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York says he’s “an extreme skeptic of new technologies that are micro- or minimally invasive.”
There are already FDA-approved techniques that work in a similar fashion, he says, called the nucleoplasty and dekompressor techniques. They work “in a very small percentage of the [back-pain] population who have symptomatic sciatica from a disc bulge.” He says the techniques don’t “work well in patients who have a real herniation where the disc material is already extruded out of the center of the disc.”
Such techniques can have a 25 to 30 percent response rate, which is still “a pretty miraculous treatment” in patients who have failed all other therapies, including medication, physical therapy, home exercise programs, and epidural steroid injections. Such patients might otherwise need back surgery.
The ozone injections seem to be “a new twist on existing technology that’s pretty good for the right patient population and it might tweak something that already exists,” says Dr. Kahn. “I’d love to see a head-to-head study with existing technologies.”
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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???
we do ozone nucleolysis here in india in an set up ment only for minimally invasive procedures.
we are american pain board ABIPP(FIPP) certified doctors. and procedure cost is just 1000$.our clinic is located in the beatiful valley of kashmir srinagar. so you can also have medical tourism.
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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
I need to find a doctor who will give oxygen/ozone injections in the Oklahoma City area
I have never heard an answer to my question as to where I can get oxygen/ozone injections. Should I hear anything?
I had shotsin my shoulder for a torn rotor cuff at the West Clinic in Pocatello, Idaho
It seems like everyone you talk to has a chronic back problem. Does this work for back spasms and is it only available in Europe?
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I have a very good friend that his brother practicing ozone shots in Orem, Utah. I just found out this morning and will give him a call for appointment.
send me an email if you need further contact information.
Son Le
How we find out some of Ozone injection for my sister back pain out of USA
Give me some advice
Thank you.
Yousef