Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Everybody knows that cells and tissue in our body needs oxygen to survive. What you might not have known is that the air that you breathe is only about 21 percent oxygen. The hyperbaric chamber is pressurized with 100% oxygen which is 10 to 20 times more than normal. In essence you are breathing approximately 200% to 240% oxygen in the chamber. This additional oxygen is vital when it comes to tissue repair and helping people recover physically after strenuous workouts.
How Does It Work
Hyper= Increased
Baric= Pressure
“Over time, the increase of oxygen stimulates angiogenesis, which is new blood vessel formation in the tissues,” says Susie Frye, a certified hyperbaric technologist and Safety Director at Logan Regional Hospital. If you follow the protocols for nutrition, wound care, she adds, hyperbaric oxygen therapy “will speed up the healing process by three to five times.”
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy also increases circulation and oxygenation allowing oxygen to build and repair damaged blood vessels and also trigger collagen growth, which leads to healing and recovery.
Who Should Use Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Have been a burn victim? Have damaged tissue that needs healing and repair? Or maybe you are an athlete that needs rapid recovery or healing from a concussion or injury, in either case hyperbaric treatments can help a wide array of people across the spectrum. That saturated increase of oxygen helps in recovery and rehabilitation
Athletes Use Hyperbaric Treatment To Improve Performance
There is a reason that athletes like Lebron James, Michael Phelps, Tim Tebow, and Tiger Woods use Hyperbaric therapy, it speeds up their recovery and improves their athletic performance. Professional athletes need every athletic advantage they can get their hands on, hyperbaric is the latest therapy that helps athletes recover from injury faster due to increased stem cell activation, faster bone and cartilage regeneration, and reduce muscle fatigue.
How It Works:
Patients will lie comfortably in the hyperbaric chamber for about 60 minutes with the option of taking a nap or you can bring your phone in with you to listen to music, watch movies, or use apps.The chamber is temperature controlled and you will be comfortable the entire time. It’s recommended that patients do 20 treatments to ensure that their body recovers.
Direct Benefits Of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy:
- Increases oxygenation to the body’s tissues
- Increase blood flow and circulation
- Boosts white blood cell counts
- Enhances the effectiveness of antibiotics
- Reduce swelling and pain
FDA Approved Uses Of Hyperbaric Chamber:
- Air and gas bubbles in blood vessels
- Anemia (severe anemia when blood transfusions cannot be used)
- Burns (severe and large burns treated at a specialized burn center)
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Crush injury
- Decompression sickness (diving risk)
- Gas gangrene
- Hearing loss (complete hearing loss that occurs suddenly and without any known cause)
- Infection of the skin and bone (severe)
- Radiation injury
- Skin graft flap at risk of tissue death
- Vision loss (when sudden and painless in one eye due to blockage of blood flow)
- Wounds (non-healing, diabetic foot ulcers)
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