Endolumbal Nootropic−Ozone Therapy in Complex Treatment of Patients with Complicated Spinal Injury in Acute Period

Abstract

Spinal trau ma occurs when there is damage to the spinal cord that results in a bruise, a partial tear, or a complete tear. Because the spinal cord is the central carrier of signals throughout the body, damage to the spinal cord can have serious consequences. During a 5 - year period (2005 – 2009), 39 patient’s spinal trauma – were treated in the Neurology department of RCSUMA. The patients were divided into two groups: The first group (main) included 25 patients, spinal injury complicated by different localization. The main criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of this method is clinic neurologic, liquor dynamic and liquorlogical: the emergence of positive neurological symptoms within two weeks after endolumbal nootropic-ozone therapy. 16 patients (64.0%) have after 2-3 times endolumbal nootropic-ozone therapy has appeared positive neurological symptoms as return of sensation the below level of damage and slight movement in the limbs. In 6 (24.0%) patients improved neurological symptoms occurred after 5-6 times the endolumbal nootropic-ozone therapy. In the control group from 5 (35.7%) patients after repeated carrying out endolumbal nootropic-ozone therapy in postoperative period there was not much positive neurological symptomatology and 9 (64.3%) even patients in postoperative period it remained the same. Received in the dynamics of the lumbar puncture data sanation and liquor dynamic tests have shown that improving the patency of liquor content spaces of spinal cord after 2-3 times a endolumbal nootropic-ozone therapy in 70.0% of cases, and data liqoulogical studies have shown that when endolumbal nootropic-ozone therapy the sanation of liquor was already in the first 3-4 days after injury, while patients control group has the full purifying liquor 8-10 per day. Professionally conducted decompression-stabilizing operations on the spine with the use of endolumbal nootropic-ozone therapy, patients with complicated spinal injury in acute period of injury significantly improves both the results of the treatment and nevrologic symptoms that reduces disability, and this positively affects the quality of life of these traumas.