Hyperbaric Therapy
Discover the benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)—a cutting-edge, non-invasive treatment that enhances your body’s natural healing process. By breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber, HBOT increases oxygen delivery to tissues, promoting faster recovery, reducing inflammation, and boosting overall wellness. Whether you're seeking improved healing, enhanced cognitive function, or better athletic performance, HBOT is a scientifically backed therapy that supports your journey to optimal health.
About Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a treatment used to increase the amount of oxygen reaching the bodies' cells. This process essentially helps Cellular Regeneration and is used to support an extensive list of conditions involving tissue damage and inflammation. The therapy is administered by a patient spending time in a hyperbaric chamber and breathing between 90 to 97% oxygen at a variety of different atmospheric pressures depending on the condition being addressed.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is commonly referred to as HBOT or mHBOT (mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy). HBOT chambers are normally medical grade chambers used in hospital or medical clinic environments and require the chambers to be operated and supervised by trained medical staff, where mHBOT are chambers designed to be used in a home or wellness centre environment and in most cased they are fully automated, making this incredible natural wellbeing protocol accessible to everyone.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy enhances your body’s natural healing process. Both the increased pressure and the increased oxygen are bioactive and have independent, overlapping, and interactive effects on our body and disease processes. The increased oxygen at pressure, allows extra oxygen to reach all of the damaged tissues and helps the body in the wound healing process, whether that damaged tissue is external like diabetic ulcers or internal like the brain (Traumatic Brain Injury). The combination of increased atmospheric pressure and increased oxygen in the body, helps treat the symptoms of a wide variety of health conditions, usually as part of an overall medical care plan.
Some Of The Traditional Medical Conditions Treated With Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy:
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Wounds that are infected or do not heal
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Carbon monoxide poisoning
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Decompression sickness
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Diabetic ulcers (to prevent amputations)
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Damage from radiation (for example, radiation therapy for cancer)
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Gas poisoning (for example carbon monoxide poisoning)
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Burns
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Anemia (due to acute blood loss)
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Pre and Post Surgery to provide better surgical outcomes
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Crushing injury
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Sudden Deafness
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Gangrene
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Infection of skin or bone that causes tissue death
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can also be used as part of an integrated approach to help support patient care. Research and trials are being conducted and expanded continually. Support for conditions such as:
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Post Stroke recovery
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Long Covid Syndrome
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Post Vaccination syndrome
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Multiple Sclerosis
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Parkinson’s Disease
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Autism
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Alzheimer’s
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Traumatic Brain Injury
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Cerebral Palsy
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Fibromyalgia
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Psoriasis
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Vascular Dementia
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Infectious Diseases such as Tick Born Diseases
Absolute Contraindications
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These conditions completely prohibit HBOT:
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Untreated pneumothorax
The increased pressure can cause a tension pneumothorax, which is life-threatening.
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Concurrent use of certain chemotherapeutic agents
Especially doxorubicin, bleomycin, disulfiram, and cisplatin, which may have increased toxicity in hyperoxic environments.
Relative Contraindications
These require careful consideration and risk-benefit assessment:
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Upper respiratory infections or sinus congestion​
Can impair pressure equalization, increasing risk of barotrauma
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Severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or emphysema with COâ‚‚ retention
May increase risk of pneumothorax or oxygen toxicity.
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High fever
Can increase the risk of oxygen toxicity.
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Seizure disorders
HBOT can lower the seizure threshold due to CNS oxygen toxicity.
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Eustachian tube dysfunction or middle ear barotrauma history
Increased risk of ear injury during compression/decompression.
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Pregnancy
Generally considered safe in emergencies, but elective use is typically avoided unless benefits outweigh risks.
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History of thoracic or ear surgery
Especially if affecting air spaces, which may complicate pressure regulation.
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Resources
Recent Breakthrough Study: https://www.theceomagazine .com/business/news/ageing- reversed-hyperbaric-oxygen/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih. gov/pmc/articles/ PMC3977684/
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov /pubmed/27873505
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov /pubmed/26608991 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov /pubmed/23266522
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/25052976
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/24488830 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/22703610
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) / Neurological Conditions
After brain trauma from an accident, brain cells die or become dormant from lack of oxygen; it has been shown that any of these cells can be revived through hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). The enormous amount of data supporting HBOT as a viable treatment for brain injury (BI) (including concussions). Below is the SPEC analysis of a patient with TBI.
The blood flow changes to the brain ( SPECT scan) is clearly evident after 40 sessions of HBOT at 1.5 ATM https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/26484702 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/26306183 https://thejns.org/view/ journals/jneurosurg/76/ 6/article-p929.xml
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Since the early 1970s, scientific journals have reported over 1,000 cases demonstrating a 40-100% rate of improvement for stroke patients treated with HBOT.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/27867477 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/27306921
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The term “cerebral palsy” describes children who experience brain trauma at birth. HBO can treat the underlying problem in children with CP (the damaged brain). The main differences between HBO and traditional therapies for CP are the rapid gains over time and the impact on cognitive skill improvements, which, in general, are not improved with only physical, occupational, or speech therapy. Recent studies do present the benefits of 1.3 ATA. For example, at HBOT 2010, Dr. Aran Mukherjee of UDAAN presented a comparison study of 1.3 to 1.5 to 1.75 ATAs (with a control group) and its use for CP. It clearly showed best results in cognitive and neurological development in the 1.3 ATA group that only received ambient air without any extra oxygen.
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A debilitating nervous system disease, multiple sclerosis results in localized patches of inflammation in the brain and spinal cord, which may eventually scar. There have been hundreds of treatments for MS. In fact, there has never been any disease in which so many treatments have been tried. Unfortunately, some of these treatments produce disastrous results. Of all the treatments ever administered, hyperbaric oxygen is the safest, most effective, and most cost-effective. Currently there are 12,000 MS patients being treated at 110 hyperbaric centers in the United Kingdom.
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) & Fibromyalgia
Approximately 40 one-hour HBO sessions in succession have been shown to counter CFS symptoms in a majority of CFS and fibromyalgia clients-patients.
http://news.rice.edu/2015/06/ 02/hyperbaric-hope-for-fibromyalgia-sufferers-2/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/23682549
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HBO can significantly increase the rate of recovery for sports related injuries such as sprains and torn muscles. The application of HBOT for the treatment of sports injuries has recently been suggested in the scientific literature as a modality of therapy either as a primary or an adjunct treatment. In one study HBOT was used as a recovery method for muscular fatigue during the Nagano Winter Olympics. It was found that all athletes benefited from the HBOT treatment presenting faster recovery rates. To date, numerous professional athletic teams, including hockey (NHL), football (NFL), basketball (NBA) and soccer (MLS), utilize and rely on the use of HBOT as adjuvant therapy for numerous sports-related injuries acquired from playing competitive sports.
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Cosmetic and Periodontal Surgery
HBO treatments administered pre- and post-surgery can significantly enhance recovery.
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Infectious Diseases such as tick borne diseases
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/term=lyme+disease+ HBOT
https://www.tandfonline.com /doi/full/10.1586/ 14787210.2014.940900 src=recsys
One of the fastest growing infections diseases such as tick bourne dieases. Tick borne disease literate physicians prescribe HBOT as an adjunctive (support) therapy, part of an interdisciplinary approach, which may include antibiotics, nutritional support and complimentary alternative medical detoxifying procedures.
“45 - 70% of patients have mycoplasma fermentens incognitus, 10 - 35% of patients have Erlichia, 25-45% of patients have bartonella, 8-20% of patients have babesia." “Professor Garth Nicholson, 2007.” All of these "bugs" (bacteria and parasites) can be transmitted by ticks and other vectors. There is much debate and some confusion because of the incorrect assumption that HBOT will actually enhance some of these infections. For example, because babesia canis (Bc) chooses red-blood cells as a primary transport vehicle to infect the entire body, it is assumed that it does so because "it just loves oxygen." Not so, the trophozoite cannot tolerate high oxygen tensions and HBOT will cause it to perish and will repair the microcirculation that infections destroy. So too with the other coinfections. HBOT, when administered at the appropriate treatment pressure, exerts a potent bactericidal and fungicidal effect and continues on to repair damaged cells, restoring normal organ function including neuronal circuitry. There is no doubt that HBOT act synergistically with many of the antibiotics ("ABX") used to combat these co-infections and reduce the time these ABX needed for them to do their job. One center in USA have reported in their clinical observation, that almost all PLS patients have been misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) and Lou Gherig's disease (ALS) because of the symptoms. Most of the Tick Borne Disease patients have shown to have regained their health and eradicated symptoms with 40 consecutive daily HBOT sessions of 90 minutes. In some instances, dramatically ill patients have shown to recover in as little as 26 HBOT sessions. The recommended ATM is between 2 to 2.7.