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Observational Study
. 2014 Jan-Mar;29(1):31-9.

An observational retrospective/horizontal study to compare oxygen-ozone therapy and/or global postural re-education in complicated chronic low back pain

Dario Apuzzo, Chiara Giotti, Patrizio Pasqualetti, Paolo Ferrazza, Paola Soldati, Gesualdo M Zucco
Observational Study

An observational retrospective/horizontal study to compare oxygen-ozone therapy and/or global postural re-education in complicated chronic low back pain

Dario Apuzzo et al. Funct Neurol. 2014 Jan-Mar.

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 An observational retrospective/horizontal study to compare oxygen-ozone therapy and/or global postural re-education in complicated chronic low back pain 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.

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Comparison of the treatments at three time points. T0 represents pain status at the beginning of therapy, T1 (p<.001) pain status at the end of treatment, T2 pain status after 1 to 5 years of follow-up after the end of treatment.
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Figure 2
Comparison, in three different treatment groups, between patients who had (72%) and had not been submitted to other treatments in the past.
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Figure 3
Outcome of the 130 low back pain patients who repeated MRI at the end of treatment.
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