Celeste
McGovern investigates the oxygen-ozone injection therapy that is putting
an end to thousands of people's joint and back pain and may radically
change medicine
Dean
Johnson first ran into trouble with his shoulders when he was 14 years
old. He played rugby, and every other game or so, at least one shoulder
would painfully jostle out of its socket because of his tendency to be
hyperflexible. At 17, doctors drilled a hole through his collar bone,
threaded a sinew grafted from his left leg through the hole, and
attached it to his first rib and sternum in an attempt to stabilize his
shoulder.
Three
more surgeries followed over the next 15 years to remove and replace
the surgical screws and staples that had chipped his shoulder bone. Not
surprisingly, none of this did anything to alleviate Johnson's chronic
pain. His job as an IT manager in Bedford, England, sitting at a
computer all day, hardly helped matters.
"The
pain stopped me from running," he says. "I couldn't play soccer. I
couldn't do anything for any prolonged period of time." He developed
tennis elbow that he thought was stemming from the pain in his shoulder.
Physical therapy didn't help. His doctor offered more surgery and
painkillers—nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like naproxen,
diclofenac and a mixture of various opiates. "None of that worked,"
Johnson says. "It just gave me a bad stomach and didn't really help at
all."
After
turning to the internet for alternatives, Johnson came across Oliver
Eaton, an osteopath and co-director of the ProHealth Clinic, with three
locations in England, who offered oxygen-ozone gas injections as part of
his pain and regenerative medicine practice. Johnson started the first
round of injections of a mixture of oxygen and ozone gas in his
shoulders and elbow in March this year. Procaine, an anesthetic, is
added to the injection to ease the pain of the procedure.
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