[On the issue of the possibility of injecting carboxytherapy application in the comprehensive treatment of patients with chronic pain].

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the application efficacy of the carboxytherapy method with the aim of chronic pain syndrome reduction.

Material and methods: The available literature sources, published in the period from 2017 to 2022 yrs and indexed in international abstract databases Scopus, Web of Science and PubMed, have been analyzed. The search was done by following keywords: carboxytherapy, medical rehabilitation, chronic pain. The patient with chronic pain syndrome, who was treated by carboxytherapy during rehabilitation, was also observed, with a subsequent evaluation of the carboxytherapy application in comprehensive treatment.

Results: Analysis of available literature has shown that the different methodical variants of carboxytherapy are used to obtain analgesic, antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory and regenerative effects in patients with chronic pain. In the presented clinical case the use of carboxytherapy in the patient with chronic pain syndrome demonstrated the efficacy of technique, expressed in the positive dynamics in the evaluation of pain syndrome reduction on the visual analogue scale and the disability indicators in the Rollan Morris and Oswestry questionnaires.

Conclusion: Carboxytherapy reduces the intensity of chronic pain syndrome and can be applied as an additional method in medical rehabilitation. Further studies in this direction are needed.