NCT00566007

The Effect of Ozone Therapy for Lumbar Herniated Disc

Trial on the Effect of Ozone Therapy for Lumbar Herniated Disc With Criteria for Surgery

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 156 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kovacs Foundation · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy (vs. placebo) of ozone infiltration and its effectiveness in comparison with micro discectomy in the treatment of lumbar herniated disc with criteria for surgery.

Conditions

• Lumbar Herniated Disc

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Discectomy/ micro discectomy	Standard discectomy or micro discectomy
DRUG	Ozone therapy	Infiltration of intradiscal ozone: O3/O2 in a 27 micrograms/ml concentration + foraminal infiltration of O3/O2 + corticoid + anesthetic
DRUG	Oxygen therapy	Intradiscal oxygen therapy: O3/O2 at a concentration of 0 micrograms/ml (only oxygen) + foraminal infiltration of O2 + corticoid + anesthetic

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-12-01
• Primary completion: 2014-03-01
• Completion: 2014-03-01
• First posted: 2007-11-30
• Last updated: 2019-08-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain