Therapeutic Opportunities of Carboxytherapy in Orthopedics

Abstract

Diseases of the musculoskeletal system are quite common diseases. Moreover, the use of pharmacotherapy may not always be effective, which is associated with a large number of side effects of modern non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). The way out of the situation can be the use of carboxytherapy (CO2 therapy), which has a complex of pharmacological effects: analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, antihypoxic and antioxidant.These CO2 effects are used to eliminate the symptom complex associated with pain, inflammation, ischemia, hypoxia, and joint stiffness. The use of carboxytherapy in orthopedics is primarily aimed at eliminating pain in various diseases of the spine, joints, muscles in the back, neck, thighs, knees and other organs. The main target of the action of carboxytherapy in diseases of the musculoskeletal system are Zakharyin – Geda zones, trigger points, myofibralgia zones and acupuncture points.When CO2 affects these zones and points, vasodilation, muscle relaxation and increased tissue oxygenation reflexively occur, which leads to a decrease in inflammation, pain and other functional disorders in the joints and muscles. Due to the polypathopathogenetic pharmacodynamics of CO2, carboxytherapy is often used for post-traumatic and inflammatory conditions of joints, arthrosis, and other acute and chronic joint pathologies of various etiologies.In addition, with combined pharmacotherapy of these diseases, carboxytherapy reduces the duration of NSAIDs and other drugs, reduces their dosage, which reduces the risk of side effects and increases the effectiveness of CO2 therapy.