What is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy?

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is a non-invasive medical treatment that can enhance the natural healing processes of the body by inhaling pure 100 percent oxygen in a total body chamber, usually in the form of a pressurized room or tube. In this body chamber, the atmospheric pressure is controlled and increased, usually to three times the normal air pressure, in order to allow your lungs to gather more pure oxygen than they normally would at a normal air pressure.

What does Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Treat?

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is used in a wide variety of treatments, usually in conjunction with an overall medical care plan to make it more effective. Some examples of the conditions that can be treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy include but are not limited to:

• Serious infections
• Wounds that are not able to heal fully because of diabetes or radiation injury
• Bubbles of air in blood vessels
• Decompression sickness (a hazard that comes with doing scuba diving)
• Bone Infections (Osteomyelitis)

What does Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Treat?

In normal circumstances, your body will have oxygen getting transported throughout the body via the red blood cells. With Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, you are inhaling 100 percent oxygen which your blood will carry throughout your body. But this oxygen will also get dissolved into:

• All of the body fluids
• The lymph
• The plasma
• The bones
• The central nervous system
  All of this extra oxygen will be able to reach areas where circulation is diminished or blocked, as well as any damaged tissue in the body. When the oxygen reaches these areas, it will enhance the body’s natural healing process by strengthening the white blood cell’s ability to help fight and kill bacteria, reduce any swelling and allow new blood vessels to grow quickly. The extra oxygen also induces the release of growth factors and stem cells which can help promote healing.

It is a simple, non-invasive treatment.