Ozone Therapy And The Neurologic Behaviour Of A Backbone Osteochondrosis
A. Mochalov and S. Kotov.
Nizhni Novgorod Medical State Academy. Russia.
The aim of this research is to study the ozone therapy efficiency and the neurologic behaviour in patients with backbone ostechondrosis. 107 patients with musculotonic, neurodystrophic and radicular syndromes of backbone osteochondrosis (cervical and lumbar localization) were investigated. The average age of patients was 43,8 years, mean duration of the disease was about 6,5 years. In the treatment of the basic group (81 patients, all men) was used ozone therapy by introduction of ozone-oxygen mixture (OOM) in paravertebral zones and in biologically active points, and also local autohemotherapy (LAHT). Control group included 26 patients (all men) at which introduction of oxygen (as a placebo) was combined with LAHT with not ozonized blood. At the end of the treatment, the patients marked essential improvement of health state expressed in decrease of pain, disappearance of hyperpathic component, time intervals without pain, narrowing of irradiation zone. Simultaneously, the backbones mobility was enlarged, the night dreams was improved. The angle of rise, in Lasseg test, in patients with lumbar ischialgia was enlarged on 31 % and in patients with radiculopathy on 24 %, that exceeded positive shifts with respect to control group (p < 0,05). Dynamic of spatial-functional mutual relations of biokinematic chain "backbone-lower extremities" was shown in substantial growth of movements in cervical and lumbar backbone (according to 37 and 51%). The expressiveness of a radicular syndrome has decreased from 1,63 ± 0,21 to 1,17 ± 0,13 (p < 0,05). Positive metabolic influence of OOM in the dystrophic degeneration centers, the rising of pain receptors sensitivity threshold decrease the morbidity of neurodystrophic sites at palpation. On the radiothermometry data, a decrease in the disorder of the temperature in juxtaspinal points and the equalisation of a "temperature asymmetry sign" was marked. Decrease of the motor potentials amplitude, increase of the nervous conducting velocity, decrease of the H-reflex latent period, revealed on the electromyography and electroneuromyography data, testified an improvement of the blood supply in the segments of the spinal cord and spinal roots during ozone therapy.
Source: 3rd International Symposia on Ozone Applications, June 2000.