Abstract
BACKGROUND:Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative disease of the knee joint. There is no cure for thedisease, but some treatments attempt to slow disease progress.Intraarticular ozone injection is increasingly being applied. In knee osteoarthritis it represents acomplementary treatment method which provides pain relief, decongestion, subsidence of bruises(hematomas), a reduction in temperature and an improvement in motility.OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the analgesic effect of 4 subsequent intra-articular ozone-oxygen injections in kneejoint osteoarthritis.PATIENTS AND METHODS:It was a prospective, randomized clinical study, done on 30 knee joints, all patient were withhistory of OA of knee joint & suffering from long standing pain & they have long history ofmedical therapy. After taking patient consent, 5 weekly sessions of intra-articular 5 ml (25 μg/ml )ozone injections were done under complete aseptic technique. Numerical Analog Pain score hasbeen assessed and recorded before each session.RESULTS:It was found that there was highly significant difference between each 2 subsequent sessions andthe p-value was below 0.01 in all times.CONCLUSION:Subsequent Intra-articular ozone injection had significant analgesic effect in knee jointosteoarthritis
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Salman, Iyad Abbas
(2016)
"Evaluation of the Analgesic Effect of Four Intra-Articular Ozone Injections in Knee Osteoarthritis,"
Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal: Vol. 15:
Iss.
2, Article 39.
Available at:
https://www.ipmj.org/journal/vol15/iss2/39