Disc Interventions: Oxygen-Ozone (O2-O3)

Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common spine diseases and causes of absence from work in developed countries. Around 80 % of adults suffer from low back pain during a lifetime, and 55 % are suffering from back pain associated with radicular syndrome. The most common cause of LBP with classical irradiation along the nerve root course is disc herniation with a natural history characterized by resolution of clinical symptoms in up to 60 % of cases by conservative medical treatment and bed rest for about 6 weeks and natural shrinkage of the disc herniation revealed by CT or MR within 8–9 months after the beginning of back pain. Surgery is considered the treatment of choice for extruded, migrated, and free fragment herniated disc, with a success rate in the short term around 85–90 %.