Welcome to the world of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
JUST THINKING
Watching a child hold its head erect when before it couldn't, hearing from a Mom or Grandma that their three year old starting sipping water for the first time and a week later starts on soft baby foods, or eyes opening and a face smiling on a child that never did before, these are the things that keep us pushing to get to more children.
We have been rewarded with saving 98 year old ladys leg, that had already been measured and marked for amputation. We have smiled and enjoyed the warmth of watching a lady that had had a stroke a couple years prior, be able to walk further and progress to the point she could move out of the facility where she had been living and move back with her family. We are moved by these accomplishments and it was nice that the older lady lived to just over 101 and still kept that leg, but when we change the quality of LIFE in a child, we know that that child, the entire family and that quality improvement is for decades and decades.
Not magicians, just treating with pure oxygen under pressure. That breath of Life turning on cells is so simple. It puts into motion chemical, and biological actions that are very compex, but the therapy is not complex. When done with proper protocols, this is one of the few areas of medicine where side effects are nil and the up side is sometimes unbelievable.
While you can live a while without food, and hours without water- Try living 5 minutes without oxygen!
Some more GOOD NEWS! Every time I get on the internet and often more and more in periodicals and journals there are new articles about hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Some are testimonials and many are documentations and reports of main stream medicine finally waking up to this safe supportive, often life and/or tissue saving modality.
As many of you know, with no ability to patent a therapy, drug companies have no interest in it. Since most money for research is for patentable products, guess what? It become an orphan treatment. So, it has taken many years for hbo to get this far into the healing arts. Medical schools do not teach it and if they mention chambers at all, it may only be about divers and other folks susceptible to the bends. Doctors who want to get into it, can and do take special courses and training but only after they have read something and persued the subject (as I did) or knew someone who was involved.
I just read a very good article in "Alternative Medicine" (Feb. 2006) by Kathy Summers. Apparently Ms. Summers had stopped into our office but, as I understand it, her Blue Cross-Blue Shield would pay the hospital but not a free-standing facility. She did go to a hospital in Scottdale, Arizona and really got great results. You might look it up and read her article.
The fact that the insurance company erroneously pays $1000.00 to $2000.00 an hour for the exact same treatment as free-standing centers who usually charge $150. to $250. an hour (we are $150.) shows how stuck they are in misinformation. We are often less then the patients 80/20 co-payment.
Yes, we are still on the forefront of what should be available to every patient at affordable fees but not near as the pioneers that have been yelling in the wind for over 30 years.
If the patient has a condition that was caused by or causes a hypoxic condition, the chances are very good that they will benefit from high dose (under pressure) breathing oxygen. The gas laws and physiology take care of the problem to whatever degree it is possible.
Every Life Deserves World Class Care!
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Enhancing Neurological Progress
By Albert G. Reach
Our quest is not helped by the “no patent, no promotion” culture in which we live. This is true to doctors as well as the general public. When there is little incentive to promote a medical protocol, it is neglected. As parents and caregivers it’s up to us to make certain that all that can be done, has been. We must dig, investigate, and ask questions. If not pushed by drug companies and vested interests and not taught in medical schools, we won’t necessarily learn all our options. We are dedicated to our loved ones. Rewards and satisfaction of helping them are earned by diligence, enormous responsibility and vigilance.
This is evident when we look into the medical uses of breathing 100% oxygen under increased atmospheric pressure. For decades, clinical evidence and research has proved the benefits of the judicious use of this simple technology. Germany, England, Russia, Japan, and China are way ahead of us routinely using Hbot with many conditions, including (though not limited to) Cerebral Palsy, traumatic brain injury, near drowning, and stroke.
Slowly, it has increasingly become available in the U.S. So, why? What is it?
Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy is the breathing of 100% oxygen while in a chamber under pressure slightly above normal. Oxygen, a gas at this time, dissolves directly into the plasma while saturating the red blood cells. The oxygen that is used by tissues must be in the fluids and this method delivers up to ten times the amount that the red blood cells can deliver if they can get through (which in many conditions, can not). Often, neurological wound damage comes from the cascade of events following reduced blood flow and lack of oxygen. However, among the damaged cells, there are idling cells: cells that have had enough oxygen to remain alive but not enough to “fire” and fully function. We see improvement after a non-fatal stroke. As the initial swelling goes down, circulation improves, delivering enough oxygen for some these sleeping or idling cells to start up again. Then, when we dissolve oxygen into the plasma (under pressure), the vasoconstriction takes even more pressure away while at the same time floods the cells with the oxygen. During hyperbaric oxygen treatments more of these cells are “kick started”. Another function of oxygen under pressure is that it can establish new capillaries, so our improvements are not lost.
HbOT is an adjunctive procedure that works well with standard treatments and does not compete with them. Don’t assume your Doctor is familiar or been exposed to everything, because most professionals have not been taught about the effects that hyperbaric oxygenation can produce. We still don’t see it routinely available. However, motivated individuals are opening many freestanding, non hospital facilities making it as available and affordable as possible. This is amazing, safe, and simple. It helps and that’s what counts.
We now have the internet. Read, learn and be pro-active in your destiny. Folks are here to help!
THINK ABOUT IT! HOW SIMPLE!
YET, MIRACLE-LIKE TO SOME.
Just thinkin'.
Love ya! agr
(By the way, one of our dedications is: Better health at lower cost.)
If you have a patient that needs hyperbaric services, or want more information, please contact us. We welcome the opportunity to consult with physicians and family about the benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.