Medical Ozone for Arthritis, Herniated Discs, and So Much More!
Medical ozone is used by over 7000 Medical Doctors in Europe and thousands of other doctors worldwide but the medical use of ozone is relatively unknown in North America. Ozone has a wide range of therapeutic benefits for treating conditions ranging from herniated discs to the herpes virus, and has the ability to deliver oxygen to healthy cells and to destroy unhealthy cells such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and cancer. Our own antibodies produce ozone to kill bacterial pathogens directly and stimulate other immune responses.
Very few Naturopathic Doctors and MDs use medical ozone for patient care. I have specialized training in ozone and other oxidative therapies, and I have an ozone generator in my clinic, Island Natural Health.
An ozone generator creates ozone from pure oxygen via a high-voltage gradient. Ozone is unstable and must be used quickly before it breaks down again into oxygen. It cannot be bottled – it must be produced and used within 40 minutes of production at room temperature.
Arthritis
Ozone therapy not only relieves the pain of arthritis but also allows for regeneration of the joint. Any joint can be treated with ozone injections including shoulders, hips, ankles, low back and neck.
In a study of patients with knee arthritis who had not responded to typical therapies (including drugs, physical rehabilitation, steroid injections and acupuncture) were treated with ozone injections directly into the knee joint. The response was rated good in 84.1% of patients while only one patient responded poorly to treatment. 98% of patients reported that their quality of life had improved with treatment, and 91.3% noted a marked improvement in agility, daily activity and social activity. Some of the side benefits experienced by patients were improvement in hearing, vision and energy and the disappearance of numbness and tingling in the lower limbs.
Lumbar Disc Herniations
Studies have shown that the non-surgical treatment of disc herniation using ozone therapy is effective. Surgery for disc herniations has not shown the same benefit. Ozone injection allows for shrinkage of the herniated disc without an open surgical approach. Ozone therapy also significantly reduces inflammation and pain.
Viral Diseases including Herpes and Hepatitis
Ozone is capable of destroying viruses by both directly damaging the viruses and by stimulation of the immune system. The viruses most susceptible to ozone therapy are Hepatitis C, Herpes 1 and 2, Cytomegalovirus, HIV, and Epstein Barr Virus (the cause of some cases of chronic fatigue syndrome).
Medical ozone has many more uses that I do not have room to detail here. Highlights include:
Diabetes & diabetic leg ulcers
Any infected wounds or skin ulcers
Hemorrhoids
Raynaud's disease – ozone can reduce or stop attacks for at least 3 months after treatment.
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