Welcome to the world of hyperbaric oxygen therapy

About Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

How does it work?

The patient is enclosed within a certified pressure vessel while breathing 100% oxygen at pressures greater than one atmosphere. (Sea level atmospheric pressure equals 14.7 pounds)

Hyperbaric Oxygen produces different effects than oxygen at one atmosphere. Research is finding enhanced healing and improved physiology through several mechanisms:

DIRECT PRESSURE: Treating bends by slowing the nitrogen release and reducing the size of gas bubbles. Also used for clinical purposes with other arterial air embolisms and tumor size reduction.

DIRECT OXYGENATION: Under pressure, oxygen is forced into all fluids, purges carbon monoxide from the body, causes immediate oxygenation. (I.Boerema 1960)

VASOCONSTRICTION: Without reducing oxygenation, can reduce compartment pressure, edema, swelling, (including intracranial pressure) and their sequella. (Jain, 1995)

NEOVASCULARIZATION/OSTEO-GENESIS: Delayed effects-(capillary angiogenises; one to two weeks). Osteogenesis with certain hypoxic non-healing fractures.

BACTERICIDAL: Directly to anaerobic organisms; apparently indirectly to aerobic organisms via increased WBC stimulation and as yet unknown actions.

IMMUNE SYSTEM: Enhanced activation. (M. Reillo 1997)