How to treat lumbar disc herniation with ozone injection

There are many treatments for lumbar disc herniation. Ozone injection therapy is also a commonly used treatment method. It uses a special ozone needle with a diameter of only about 0.3 mm. The treatment is performed through puncture. This method will not damage some surrounding tissues. It has a good therapeutic effect on relieving pain and relieving pressure. Ozone needle treatment is suitable for bone and joint pain, cervical spondylosis, coccyx pain, etc.

definition

Ozone injection therapy uses a special ozone needle, which is only 0.3 mm in diameter. During puncture, whether it is intradiscal, joint cavity, or local injection, it will not damage the surrounding tissues. Overlapping therapy is used and treatment is based on the ozone injection concentration and injection volume of different patients, intradiscal injection, combined with extradiscal injection and annular fiber decompression or intradiscal drug injection and other therapies.

Herniated Disc Treatment

1. Principle of intradiscal injection

Ozone has a strong oxidizing ability, and also has anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. Injecting it into the nucleus pulposus tissue of a protruding intervertebral disc can instantly oxidize the proteoglycans in the nucleus pulposus tissue and destroy the nucleus pulposus cells, causing the proteoglycans to lose their function, reducing the production of proteoglycans by cells, and failing to maintain the osmotic pressure of the nucleus pulposus tissue, leading to water loss and atrophy, thereby reducing the pressure within the intervertebral disc and eliminating compression on the nerve roots.

2. Principle of off-disk injection

The protruding nucleus pulposus and annulus fibrosus compress the dura mater, nerve roots and surrounding veins, causing reflux obstruction, exudation and tissue edema. The glycoproteins and β-proteins released after the rupture of the annulus fibrosus act as antigens, causing the body to produce an immune response and form aseptic inflammation. Ozone can stimulate the overexpression of oxidase, neutralize the reactive oxidation products overproduced in the inflammatory response, antagonize the release of immune factors in the inflammatory response, dilate blood vessels, improve blood flow, and reduce edema around the nerve roots. In short, intradiscal nucleolytic and extradiscal injection can antagonize aseptic inflammation and achieve the true treatment goal of the intervertebral disc. Combining the two, some people call this method of treating intervertebral disc herniation ozone chemonucleolysis.

Treatment range

1. Ozone therapy is used in pain medicine, rehabilitation physiotherapy, acupuncture, acupuncture, orthopedics, etc.

2. Bone and joint pain: cervical spondylosis, costochondritis, coccygeal pain, knee arthritis, heel pain, temporomandibular joint dysfunction syndrome, degenerative osteoarthritis, gouty arthritis

3. Soft tissue pain: acute and chronic lumbar sprain, lumbar muscle strain, supraspinal and interspinal ligament inflammation, lumbar myofasciitis, fibromyalgia syndrome, tenosynovitis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, tennis elbow, and soft tissue injury.