The Italian Oxygen-Ozone Therapy Federation (FIO) Study on Oxygen-Ozone Treatment of Herniated Disc
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Oxygen-ozone intradiscal and periganglionic injection is a minimally invasive procedure first applied clinically in the peridural treatment of lumbar sciatic pain and lumbar disk herniation. A reduction in herniated disk volume is one of the therapeutic aims of the gas mixture, as disk shrinkage may reduce nerve root compression. Another reason for using medical ozone to treat disk herniation is its analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects. The transit of pure oxygen through high-voltage tubes forms ozone available for an injecting device. This type of treatment is developed to offer good clinical results combined with a well-tolerated, lowcost procedure. A vast bibliography can be found in a recent study on how oxygen-ozone works . Oxygen-ozone therapy exploits the chemical properties of ozone, an unstable allotropic form of oxygen with the symbol O3 and a molecular weight of 48 kDa. Many biologic effects have been attributed to ozone: increased glycolysis, effects on red blood cells, effects on rheology, bactericidal, fungicide and virustatic, immunomodulating action and analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects. This broad The Italian Oxygen-Ozone Therapy Federation (FIO) Study on Oxygen-Ozone Treatment of Herniated Disc
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