Apuzzo, Dario and Giotti, Chiara and Pasqualetti, Patrizio and Ferrazza, Paolo and Soldati, Paola and Zucco, Gesualdo M. (2014) An observational retrospective/horizontal study to compare oxygen-ozone therapy and/or global postural re-education in complicated chronic low back pain. Functional Neurology, 29 (1). pp. 31-39. ISSN 1971-3274
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Abstract
Acute low back pain (LBP) is the fifth most common reason for physician visits and about nine out of ten adults experience back pain at some point in their life. In a large number of patients LBP is associated with disc herniation (DH). Recently, oxygen-ozone (O2O3) therapy has been used successfully in the treatment of LBP, reducing pain after the failure of other conservative treatments. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of O2O3 therapy in back pain rehabilitation, comparing three groups of patients suffering from chronic back pain associated with DH submitted to three different treatments: intramuscular O2O3 infiltrations, global postural re-education (GPR), or a combination of the two (O2O3+GPR). The data show that pain severity before treatment was significantly lower in the patients treated with GPR alone (VAS score 7.4) than in the O2O3+GPR patients (VAS score 8.5) and the O2O3 patients (VAS score 8.6). At the end of treatment, pain severity was lower in the O2O3 patients than in the GPR-alone patients. After some years of follow-up only the difference between O2O3+GPR and GPR-alone remained significant.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | chronic back pain, combined treatment (O2O3+GPR), global postural re-education, intramuscular oxygen-ozone infiltrations, lumbar disc herniation, sciatica |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Dec 2015 16:56 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Dec 2015 16:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/11061 |
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