Ozone Injections

Ozone has so many uses that its crazy. Its not always the most popular option but it works. For example, ozone gas can be injected under wrinkles in the face for anti-aging but its not as popular as synthetic fillers. Ozone works naturally so its slower but its much safer in my opinion. Ozone can be injected into cellulite to help tighten the skin and reduce dimpling however its not the go to treatment over Liposuction or Cellulite Band Cutting. Ozone can be injected into and around scar tissue to help break it down but its not as popular as laser treatments.

The point is ozone CAN do these things, naturally. What it also can do is be injected into joints and muscles. These injections are done using the gas itself or by combining the gas with other nutrients like B-12, B Complex, Dextrose, or homeopathic’s in a treatment called Prolozone.

ProloTherapy is the use of the nutrients or homeopathics without ozone. A lot of doctors use prolotherapy now but very few know how to incorporate ozone into the mix. Its a lot more effective when they do and treatment success is much better. I learned a lot over my career and one of the things I learned is that ozone makes just about every treatment work better. Ozone opens up the receptor cites on cells so they take in nutrients better, it regulates inflammatory responses and since it has an energetic component seeing as how it releases a negatively charged oxygen molecule when it debonds. Ozone is thought to open energy meridians similar to acupuncture and since were on the subject I should mention that ozone gas can be injected into acupuncture points, this is called chemical acupuncture. Ozone gas doesn’t need to be injected into a specific acupuncture point to help with energy pathways but it does make traditional acupuncture more efficacious.

When a person has lets say knee pain thats not directly in the joint but in the area around the knee they could get a prolozone injection done thats larger in volume than if the injection is goin into the knee joint itself. The most we ever were able to get into a knee joint directly was 12ml but if the injection is outside the join we could use up to 35ml of fluid. I have seen people have chronic knee pain and after two prolozone injections they were pain free for a year. Thats incredible considering the quality of life improvement from a simple injection that cost them $300.

Some ozone injections are done in an indirect way but bubbling ozone into sterile saline and then injecting the saline. I prefer this method when doing prolozone injections. I have done several of these injections to myself over the years and I believe them to be very effective. Especially because the saline disperses into the surrounding tissues hydrating them and to some degree it can flush them as well.

Ozone gas or infused sterile saline is injected into oral tissues to help combat dental infections and after tooth extractions to induce a faster recovery. I’ve seen both types done and what I will say is that the gas does disperse better in oral tissues than saline. Ozone gas can penetrate into bone better than saline and thats very important when dealing with lower jaw cavitation’s. The lower jaw bone is pretty solid, whereas the upper portion is more permeable.

Its important to have a trained dentist or medical practitioner (MD, DO or NP) do any ozone injection because injected ozone gas can be absorbed into a local artery causing an embolism. Remember that when ozone is safely injected into blood directly, that blood is always removed from the body first. There are doctors who have injected ozone gas directly into a peripheral veins on their patients and they have done several hundred successful injections but its not a “safe” treatment.

Here are some interesting links:

Ozone injections for osteoarthritis