Use of medical ozone in the treatment of low back pain
Keywords:
Anti-inflammatories; Rheumatic disease; Low back pain; OzoneAbstract
Introduction: low back pain is one of the conditions that has the highest rate of general disability, has been identified as one of the main causes of temporary and / or permanent work disability.
Objective: to identify the advantages of the application of medical ozone as a combination therapy in the treatment of patients with acute low back pain.
Methodology: an experimental case-control study was conducted in which each group consisted of 50 patients over 20 years of age with a diagnosis of low back pain. The control group received treatment with traditional therapeutic schemes according to international consensus for the treatment of acute low back pain, in the case of patients in the case group the use of medical ozone was added, in three weekly sessions rectally until 10 sessions were completed. The means and McNemar comparison test were used to identify changes in pain intensity and in the presence and type of disability.
Result: average age above 50 years with a predominance of female patients. The intensity of pain at the beginning of treatment behaved on average for both groups at 8.76 points, while 87% of patients reported some type of disability with a predominance for moderate disability.
Conclusions: the application of combined medical ozone positively influenced the decrease in pain intensity and the presence and type of disability.
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