Learning to Live With Back Pain

According to the American Medical Association more than 80-percent of all United States citizens are effected by some sort of back pain at one point or another throughout their lives.

This may manifest in lower, middle, or upper back pain which causes nerve and muscular issues, degenerative disc diseases, and in some patients may lead to arthritis.

The back is a complex system of 33 bones and tissue that runs from skull to pelvis which protyects the spinal cord. Because the back is so complex, so are the issues that commonly effect it as accidents, muscle strains and sports injuries can have varying impacts on the patients overall health.

This section was created for the patient currently dealing with back pain may know the current treatment options, information on their type of back pain and their causes, as well as products that may alleviate that pain and certain exercises that can help in relieving that pain.

Ozone Injections to Help Disc Pain

The University of Toronto has found that an experimental treatment utilizing ozone gas injections into the spine may help in lower-back pain where herniated disks are related.

One researcher has treated nearly 50 patients, using a combination of oxygen and ozone injections since 2005. Studies have suggested that this type of therapy actually assists in shrinking the disks that have herniated.

The procedure was originally developed in Italy where 14,000 patients have been treated using nothing more than a local anesthetic to deliver the ozone treatment to the herniated disc. According to researchers, most patients report a marked decrease in pain within 48 hours of being treated.