ozone discectomy for Slipped Disc
What is Ozone? Ozone is a tri-atomic Oxygen molecule, O3, with a different molecular structure than Oxygen. Its name is derived from the Greek word ozein meaning “to smell”. At room temperature, Ozone is a colorless gas with a characteristic odor (similar smell after thunderstorms, at high altitudes or near the sea etc). At ground level its concentration 0.03 – 0.04 ppm. Ozone in the atmosphere is produced by action of UV rays and thunderstorm on the atmospheric Oxygen; but Medical Ozone is produced from pure medical grade oxygen with the help of high voltage electrical discharge. Medical ozone is a mixture of oxygen and ozone of different concentration. Medical ozone is always freshly prepared on site (in a special generator) for immediate administration. A trained physician according to the medical indication and the patient’s condition determines the exact dose of ozone.
Safety and Efficacy of Ozone Therapy
Treating patients with ozone is not a new procedure. The first ozone generators were developed by Werner von Siemens in Germany in 1857, and 1870 saw the first report on ozone being used therapeutically to purify blood, by C. Lender in Germany.
During World War 1, ozone was used to treat wounds, trench foot, gangrene and the effects of poison gas. Dr. Albert Wolff of Berlin also used ozone for colon cancer, cervical cancer and decubitus ulcers in 1915. Today, after 125 years of usage, ozone therapy is a recognized modality in many nations: Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Romania, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Israel, Cuba, Japan, Mexico, and in five US states. It was also used extensively to treat war wounds during World War-II.
It was not popularized before, as ozone resistant materials were not used to produce ozone generators. Also the exact concentration of ozone was unknown. Former Ozone generators are either UV light Ozone generators or plasma type Ozone generators. Here, it was very difficult to know the precise concentration of ozone. Now with the present Corona-discharge Ozone generators, it is possible to know the exact concentration of Ozone. Also, by changing the current or the oxygen flow, Ozone concentration can be precisely modified.
Ozone has been found to be an extremely safe medical therapy, free from side effects. In a 1980 study done by the German Medical Society for Ozone Therapy, 644 therapists were polled regarding their 384,775 patients, comprising a total of 5,579,238 ozone treatments administered. There were only 40 cases of side effects noted out of this number that represents the incredibly low rate of .000007%. Ozone Therapy has been described as the safest known medical therapy.
Indications of Ozone Therapy
Among the various diseases presented with pain the following has been treated with very good results; e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythemoatosis, scleroderma, polymyositis/fibromyositis, ankylosing spondylitis, osteo-arthritis, Reiter syndrome, psoriasis, synovitis, gout, chrondrocalcinosis, pyrophosphate arthropathy, calcific peri-arthritis, calcific tendinitis, calcinosis and inter-vertebral disc prolapse. In my Pain Clinic I have been treating osteo-arthritis of knee, trigger point injections for fibromyalgia/ Myofascial pain, and inter-vertebral disc prolapse or slipped disc successfully.
How Ozone is Administered?
There are different methods like injections of ozone/oxygen mixture; insufflations through rectum; treating with ozonated water (drinking, dressing wound/ulcers etc.); auto-transfusion of ozonated blood, application of ozonated oil and so on depending on type and site of disease. But for treatment of different pain we use injection of different concentrations of ozone gas only. Ozone molecule is not stable. It has a half-life of 20 minutes only. So, within 20 minutes only half of the original ozone remains, the rest becomes oxygen. Increase in temperature decreases its half-life. For injection it is always freshly prepared on site for immediate administration. Only Ozone resistant syringes can be used for injecting it. The contraindications for treatment with ozone are only a few. They are active bleeding from any site, pregnancy, and active hyperthyroidism.
Mechanism of Action
The mechanisms of action of ozone are many. Most of its actions are due to the active oxygen atom liberated from breaking down of ozone molecule. Besides its action as bactericidal, fungicidal, viricidal agent, it activates cellular metabolism, modulates the immune system & increases and activates body’s own antioxidants and radical scavengers. In the treatment of pain different other mechanism acts. There is enhancement of circulation. Ozone reduces or eliminates clumping and red cell. Its flexibility is restored, along with oxygen carrying ability (due to the stimulation of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate). Oxygenation of the tissues increases as the arterial partial pressure increases and viscosity decreases. Ozone also oxidizes the plaque in arteries, allowing the removal of the breakdown products, unclogging the blood vessels. All these leads to an increase in the amount of oxygen released to the diseased tissues. There is also reduced formation of inflammatory mediators like different prostaglandins and so there is an anti-inflammatory action.
Ozone in PIVD/Slipped Disc
In case of prolapsed inter-vertebral disc (or, slipped disc) different other mechanism acts. Inter-vertebral disc is filled with nucleus pulposus which is a jelly like material which holds water (90% of disc material is water). When ozone is injected into the disc the proteo-glycan bridges in the jelly-like material are broken down and they no longer capable of holding water. As a result disc shrinks and mummified which is equivalent to surgical discectomy and so the procedure is called ozone discectomy or ozonucleolysis. It has been published in ANESTHESIA AND PAIN journals that up to 85% of disc operation can be avoided with these non-surgical interventions. Success rate is about 88% which is comparable to surgical discectomy (50% to 90%). Complications are remarkably low and much less than surgery.
Future
Ozone is gradually gaining popularity in various medical fields especially in pain management. Newer modification in techniques and administration of ozone, more and more publication of scientific materials in the medical journals and animal studies have made it more acceptable to the medical community and gradually it is becoming more popular.
Dr (Maj) Pankaj N Surange is an FIPP Qualified and World Institute of Pain certified Interventional Pain and Spine specialist, having pain centres in Delhi and Gurgaon.
He is the Visiting Faculty at Daradia Pain Institute, Kolkata and Iran University of Medical Sciences.
He has special interest in minimally invasive non surgical interventions for PIVD/SLIPPED DISC, SPINE AND RELATED PAINS, CHRONIC AND CANCER PAINS.
For more details please visit www.ipscindia.com
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Ozone Discolysis – Overview of Ozone Therapy in Medical Treatments
Ozone dicolysis is a new treatment that was pioneered by the Italian spine surgeons. In spite of being relatively new treatment, its effectiveness has already been proved when conducted on about thousands of patients all over the world. This treatment is considered to be something similar to the natural medicine as it does not involve much pain and is an ambulatory process which is conducted with the help of local anesthesia. Though its application is similar to natural medicines, its results are like that of the positive results of surgeries. Ozone discolysis has great positive effects on people on whom it is conducted as ozone has many features that help in curing a number of medical problems. It has in fact proved to be of great help in curing a number of critical medical problems, making it quite popular among the medical practitioners.
Ozone works best on the intervertebral disc and also on the tissues that lay around the disc. This entire process is done by- mummification of the disc, inhabitation of the inflammatory nociceptors, stimulating the fibroblasts and immunosuppressor cytokines and improving of microcirculation and oxygenation. These are the four biochemical actions that ozone carries out on the intervertebral disc for curing the problem of nerve dilation. Treatment is carried out in three stages- first the ozone injections are injected on the paravertebral muscles, then ozone is injected in the intervertebral disk that is in trouble followed by the application of ozone injection on the paravertebral muscles.
Now, how does ozone work? Well, when this strong oxidizing agent is injected on the paravertebral muscle, it produces a number of oxidizing enzymes. This in turn helps to neutralize the toxins byproducts that lead to the dilation of the nerves. It is considered to be a natural remedy for treating the problem of nerve compression. Generally the effects of the treatment are positive and it helps in reducing the problem of increased disk volume. Therefore it is a good substitution of surgical methods of treating swelling of nerves. Moreover there are no after effects or complications in this process. Ozone discolysis does not change the anatomy of the body as surgeries do and is not at all a complex process; hence is highly preferable. But again there are some diseases like Fauvism and Hyperthryrodism for which ozone treatment can prove to be absolutely inadvisable.
The success rate of medical ozone treatment is quite high, about 80%- 90% and there are almost no procedure related complications that can hamper the smooth functioning of a person’s life in the post surgery period. Since Ozone dicolysis is an ambulatory process, patients get the chance to go back home on the very day of the treatment and also to return to work within a week.
So, Ozone Discolysis is almost like a natural treatment that can be carried out at a low cost, comfortable rate and without involving almost any amount of pain and post treatment complications.
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Ozone Therapy For Spine
Ozone therapy o3 (ozone) is a pure form of oxygen which is formed from three atoms of oxygen split in presence of ultraviolet rays or carbon arc.
O3 has extraordinary potential to oxygeneate tissues.it acts as a strong antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal agent.more importantly two effects of ozone are its strong analgesic and anti inflammatory properties. Ozone is known to extract water molecules from the tissue. this is the reason why the combined effect of anti inflammatory,analgesic and capacity to reduce the volume of the swollen disc which is rich in water bound proteoglycan molecules-has made way for a well researched,established treatment called ozone nucleolyisis for back ache and sciatica due to slipped disc.
Ozone is delivered under strict asptic precautions with the help of a ct scanner machine that helps to localise a safe access route for this purpose. A special equipment that delivers caliberated doses of o3-o2 mixture of upto 30 micrograms is used for ozone delivery.although ozone can be elivered under x-ray image intensifier in cath lab,this procedure far less safe and accurate than ct can guided therapy.
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