The application of the mixture of oxygen and ozone is, today, one of the best solutions for herniated discs, sciatica, joint pain and inflammatory diseases thanks to its multiple benefits: it is analgesic, has antiseptic properties, reduces inflammatory processes and restores the characteristics of the tissues lost due to inflammation. Without side effects, the mixture has been shown to be highly effective -80% of cases.
Joint pain and back problems affect three out of four people throughout their lives. In this sense, the injection of ozone oxygen in damaged areas of the body is one of the best treatments that medicine currently offers. A treatment in which Dr. Beltrami, a surgeon specializing in orthopedic surgery, is a benchmark in the region. Endorsed by a career spanning almost two decades, Dr. Beltrami is dedicated to the application of ozone therapy treatment in pathologies of the musculoskeletal system in his clinic, located at number 8 Calle Marqués de San Esteban in Gijón. Inflammatory pathologies that find a solution with this treatment can be acute, such as sciatica or epicondylitis, or chronic, such as Achilles tendinosis or knee osteoarthritis in the initial phase. In the case of a herniated disc, this therapy makes it possible to eliminate, by dehydration, the part of the nucleus of the intervertebral disc that has come out of the center of the disc, without having to remove it with surgery. What is a herniated disc? Very simple: the spine can be described as a series of cubes superimposed on each other. Between one cube and another there is a structure that serves to cushion the weight and to allow movement between each unit. This structure is called the intervertebral disc and is made up of a hard, fibrous outer part and a soft inner part: the nucleus. A trauma, an exaggerated effort or the physiological aging of the tissues, in the most predisposed patients, can cause the exit of a part of the nucleus (which is made up of 80% water). This biological material, which appears as a dense gel, gives rise to pressure on the nearby tissues (the patient suffers more pain when it is a nerve) and therefore to irritation of these structures, for example of the nerve roots that they start from here to innervate the peripheral areas (the typical sciatica). Thus arises a suffering, both local, low back pain, and in distant territories, corresponding to the roots (nerves) affected, for example sciatica. Traditionally, these patients were injected with a medication such as cortisone (intramuscularly or directly into the spine, epidural), which calms inflammation and pain for a period of time (leaving the disc nucleus unchanged outside from their site). With ozone therapy, a mixture of two gases, oxygen and ozone, is injected to eliminate the hernia and consequently the pain is completely eliminated. Technically, the treatment consists of periodic and regular paravertebral intramuscular infiltrations (depending on the patient’s situation), for a determined and limited period of time, of a given quantity of a mixture of the two gases. The action of this therapy is direct on the surface of the hernia and leads to its progressive reduction by means of a disintegration of the mucopolysaccharides that compose it and the consequent hydrophobic effect (dehydration). The final effect of the ozone therapy treatment is the disappearance of all the symptoms that a hernia entails, with the advantage that the treatment does not produce any side effects and the contraindications are almost nil (pregnancy, hyperthyroidism and taking some medications, such as Syntron ). The ozone therapy treatment is performed on an outpatient basis (10 sessions, two each week). After an adequate assessment of the clinical appearance and the radiological and magnetic resonance findings, the patient undergoes the infiltrations and leaves on his own foot, there is no need to be admitted to the hospital or rest. The peculiar effects of ozone mean that patients can be cured after a month and a half on an outpatient basis. Today this type of therapy is widespread throughout the world and there are international scientific associations.
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