Ozone Therapy

Ozone therapy is the use of medical ozone as a therapeutic substance in pathologies with chronic hypoxia, inflammation, and redox imbalance in which ozone has proven to be effective.

Medical ozone is a mixture of oxygen and ozone obtained from medical oxygen by using a medical device – a medical ozone generator. Ozone therapy in medicine is a growing reality, and there are more and more professionals using medical ozone as a therapeutic tool for different diseases related to chronic oxidative stress and inflammation, including chronic pain.

Ozone is a molecule composed of three oxygen atoms (O3) instead of the two oxygen atoms found in the oxygen molecule (O2). Ozone has a half-life of 40 min at 20°C; for this reason, it cannot be stored and must be produced “in situ” for each application.

When applying this therapy, we are really inducing a controlled and harmless “micro-oxidation” that will produce a modulation of the cellular antioxidant system and the inflammation system. Ozone reacts with interstitial fluids producing hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), aldehydes, and lipid oxidation products (LOPs). These substances induce activation of the nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (NRF2) pathway that will induce an increase in antioxidant systems (ARE), such as superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), reduced glutathione (GSH), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), glutathione s-tranferase (GSTr), hem-oxygenase-1 (HO-1), reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH), NADPH quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) and heat shock protein-70 (HSP70; Baeza et al., 2015). This NRF2 activation induces a decrease in the nuclear factor kappa beta (NFKβ) pathway activity, inducing an anti-inflammatory effect [decrease of interleukynes 1,2,6,7 and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) and increase of interlukynes 4, 10, 13 and transforming growing factor beta (TGFβ)] In the injected tissues, medical ozone inactivates proteolytic enzymes through the inhibition of the NFKβ pathway. At the same time, there is a proliferation of fibroblasts and chondrocytes, favoring cartilaginous regeneration

Indications:

Infiltrated ozone at concentrations between 4 and 30 μg/ml is useful for treating musculoskeletal diseases such as

  • Osteo Arthritis
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Tendonitis
  • Myositis
  • Fasciitis
  • Neuritis
  • myofascial pain
  • Discogenic Pain ( Ozone discectomy)
Infiltrative Ozone Possesses
  • Anti-inflammatory analgesic,
  • anti-edema properties
  • It causes the oxidation of the algogenic receptors to inhibit the pain signal
  • It activates the antinociceptive system