Efectividad de la ozonoterapia en el tratamiento del dolor por hernia de disco intervertebral

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of the administration of medical ozone in different ways and microdiscetomy for the treatment of pain due to herniated disc. Material and method: A retrospective study was carried out in 2589 patients of both sexes, over 18 years of age, with a herniated disk with or without disc degeneration, diagnosed by MRI with radiological clinical congruence, of more than 3 months of evolution, resistant to conservative treatment, with signs of radicular involvement or not. Analgesic efficacy was assessed after three months of applying the technique, using a visual analog scale of pain and the Oswestry Disability Index. The statistical study was carried out using the SPSS 14.0 program for Windows. A p < 0.05 was considered significant. Results: Intradiscal infiltration with ozone and microdiscetomy was equally effective in extruded lumbar hernias. For the lumbar prolapsed hernias, the Intradiscal infiltration was higher than the microdiscetomy and all the other therapies and locations, with a certainty percentage of 100% (p = 0.00). The more rectal superficial paravertebral was very effective for lumbar prolapsed hernias and forlumbar and cervical protruding hernias, and sacral peridural infiltration was very effective for protruding and protruding lumbar hernias that presented with multiple segmental stenosis of the lumbar canal and in some with fibrosis. surgical post in Failed Back Syndrome. Conclusion: Ozone therapy applied intradiscally, sacral peridural, superficial paravertebral combined with rectal route, are as effective as microdiscetomy, for the treatment of pain by herniated discs, but safer.