Ozone Therapy

The best way to contrast the free radicals increase

In the Clinica San Francesco an oxygen-ozone therapy outpatient service is active, a particular soft procedure using the ozone potentialities, matched with the oxygen, to activate the circulation of all tissues and stimulate the protection mechanisms towards the production of free radicals (destroying them) and toxic substances for cells.

The oxygen-ozone therapy, consolidated already for many years’ clinical-scientific experience and widespread in many countries, allows to enhance in a high percentage many pathologies interesting the organs and generating outstanding personal and social benefits.

The oxygen-ozone therapy applications are absolutely innocuous and don’t present, broadly, contraindications. The side-effects of oxygen-ozone therapy instead can be serious in patients affected by favism, serious hyperthyroidism or heart diseases; these last persons are not treated.

Administration procedure and therapeutic indications

The administration occurs by different ways (local and general)

• Intra and periarticular injections
• Intramuscular injections
• Intraforaminal and intradisc injections
• Perinerve injections
• Peritendon injections
• Subcutaneous injections
• Great autohemotransfusion
• Small autohemotransfusion
• Rectal, nasal insufflations
• Bagging
• Ozonated oil and water

The benefits of the oxygen-ozone therapy are numerous and change according to the different concentrations of ozone in oxygen.

• Anti-inflammatory action
• Anti-edemigenous action
• Anti-dolorific action
• Dehydrating on nucleus pulposus action
• Microcirculation reactivating action (neoangiogenesis)
• Tissue regenerating action
• Cicatrizing action
• Direct neurotrophic action
• Antibacterial, antiviral, antimycotic action

The application areas of oxygen-ozone therapy

The administration occurs by different ways (local and general)

• Orthopaedics: arthropaties, neck pains, backaches and lumbosciatica with disc herniation, vertebral stenosis, periarthritis, epicondylitis and epitrochleitis, tendinitis, trochanteritis, gonarthrosis and condropathies, carpal and tarsal tunnel syndrome, Morton’s neuroma.
• Allergology: Food allergies and intolerances, rhinitides.
• Angiology: arterial diseases, ulcers and gangrenes.
• Digestive apparatus: gastritis, Helicobacter pylori, chronic ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, constipation.
• Respiratory system: bronchitis, bronchial asthma, emphysema.
• Surgery: bedsores and postphlebitic an diabetic ulcers, burns.
• Dermatology: acne, allergies, eczemas, mycosis, herpes, psoriasis.
• Geriatrics: vascular and not vascular alterations connected to senility.
• Gynecology: vaginitis, dyspareunia.
• Aesthetic medicine: cellulitis, capillaries, teleangiectasias, wrinkles, scars.
• Internal medicine: hepatitis, turnover diseases, dyslipidemias, anemia, disendocrine and dysmetabolic states.
• Neurology: vasomotor and cluster headaches, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, neuritis.
• Ophthalmology: retinal arteriopathies, dry maculopathy, dry eye syndrome.
• Oncology: neoplastic diseases in conjunction with antiblastic drugs (the therapy is not substitutive), local treatment of damages produced by radiotherapy.
• Otorhinolaryngology: chronic and purulent otitis, sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, rhinogenous deafness, ear ringing.
• Rheumatology:rheumatoid arthritis, LES, psoriasis, etcetera.
• Urology: cystitis, vascular impotence, miction disorders, prostatitis, induratio penis.

Is possible to access the outpatient service only under the system of free profession and on physician’s indication.