Medical researchers continually strive to identify different methods for treating specific ailments. Occasionally, such efforts can be unusual and somewhat controversial. One such endeavor is called ozone therapy.

Ozone

Many people have likely heard the word ozone used at one time or another. In actuality, the substance is a variation of the common gas oxygen, which individuals breathe to survive.

However, when inhaled, ozone can be dangerous. This gas is known to precipitate untoward respiratory symptoms including:

• Wheezing
• Coughing
• Excessive mucous production
• Irritated lung lining
• Sore throat

In certain people, ozone exposure can progress to more serious maladies like asthma. Long-term or particularly excessive exposure could result in permanent lung damage.

Ozone Therapy

Despite these concerns, certain facets of the scientific community maintain that ozone can provide potentially significant health benefits when administered into the body through alternative entry points.

How Is Ozone Therapy Performed?

Therapy practitioners often employ several different administration methods including:

Direct Tissue Entry

Sometimes, administrators apply ozone gas directly into the tissues the material is intended to treat. To prevent recipients from inhaling the substance, they are wrapped in protective covering.

Intramuscularly

Certain therapeutic protocols call for insertion directly into one’s muscles. In many instances, those offering therapy mix ozone with oxygen and inject said preparation into the receiver’s muscles.

Intravenously

When employed to remediate systemic ailments, ozone is typically infused into a sample of blood previously taken from the recipient’s body. Once the gas is infused into the blood sample, the concoction is injected back into the body through a vein.

Conditions Ozone Therapy Is Used To Treat

Medical researchers suggest that ozone therapy could prove effective in remediating numerous ailments including:

Cardiovascular Problems

Ozone therapy has been employed to treat various blood vessel disorders such as:

• Strokes
• Peripheral artery obstructions that inhibit proper blood flow
• Heart attacks
• Blood clots

Moreover, the gas has found some benefit in addressing coronary artery disease, which is a major contributing factor to heart attacks and other cardiovascular illnesses.

Lung Conditions

Certain individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a serious lung problem often abbreviated as COPD, have benefitted from ozone therapy.

Wounds

Ozone therapy has enjoyed relative effectiveness in remediating tissue damage precipitated by wounds. Specific examples include foot ulcers associated with diabetes and various skin ailments.

Immune System Disorders

People with various immune system conditions, especially chronic fatigue syndrome, have experienced discernible improvement after undergoing ozone therapy. Moreover, researchers have found that the remedial protocol might help those stricken with the human immunodeficiency virus, sometimes abbreviated as HIV.

Liver Issues

Ozone therapy has enjoyed a modicum of success in addressing significant liver disorders like hepatitis and cirrhosis. Additionally, the treatment has also been employed as means of fostering liver detoxification.

Orthopedic Deterioration

Those afflicted with soft tissue deterioration impacting joints, ligaments, and tendons have witnessed healing and less associated pain after the administration of ozone therapy.

Cancer

Certain global medical communities employ ozone as a means of circumventing the side effects of various cancer-fighting drugs.

Is Ozone Therapy Legal?

Currently, ozone therapy is not considered a viable treatment option by specific government-regulating agencies. The American-based medical safety and efficacy watchdog organization known as the Food and Drug Administration, often abbreviated as the FDA prohibit the application of the undertaking.

The agency reached this conclusion on the basis that ozone is a potentially harmful substance and that more research must be performed before the medical community can safely declare the remedial protocol an acceptable treatment option for any specific ailment.

That said, however, many countries employ the therapy as do numerous states under the protection of health freedom laws.

Who Should Not Undergo Ozone Therapy?

Despite the controversy surrounding its administration, ozone therapy is considered relatively safe when dispensed by experienced professionals in a controlled setting. That said, individuals with specific conditions are advised to refrain from ozone therapy administration including:

An Overactive Thyroid

This malady, known medically as hyperthyroidism, occurs when the thyroid gland secretes and releases excessive concentrations of thyroid hormone. Said occurrence often nullifies the positive impacts of ozone therapy.

Pregnancy

Medical researchers stress that insufficient research on ozone’s fetal impacts have been conducted. Therefore, expecting subjects are urged to not undergo said therapy.

Thrombocytopenia

The bone marrow of those stricken with this illness fails to produce enough platelets. Said events impede the body’s capacity to produce sufficient oxygen concentrations rendering said subjects poor candidates for ozone treatment.

Contacting Us

The experienced and highly-trained professionals working for Vital Force regenerative Medicine offer ozone therapy to those who might benefit from such remediation.

That said, the decision to offer this therapy is not made indiscriminately. Our staff of medical professionals will review all aspects of a patient’s case, weigh the pros and cons, and create the safest, most efficient form of ozone treatment possible.  Call us at 205-352-9141.