Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) can serve as a beneficial adjunctive treatment for cardiology patients including those with ACS, cardiopulmonary bypass, angina, and even sternal infections after CABG.
The use of HBOT to precondition patients with coronary artery disease before they undergo cardiopulmonary bypass surgery can lead to improved myocardial function after the operation, reducing the length of intensive care stay and limiting complications post-bypass surgery. It can also improve clinical outcomes in patients with sternal infection and osteomyelitis after sternotomy and cardiothoracic surgery.
The combination of Chiropractic with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can be a very powerful and holistic approach to healing and recovery. Chiropractic adjustments can cause localized inflammation, which can lead to a short term worsening of pain and disability. HBOT decreases inflammation, decreases pain, and allows the body to heal from within faster and more efficiently.
In the fields of Dentistry and Oromaxillofacial Surgery, HBOT accelerates healing and profoundly decreases inflammation. In addition, HBOT also works synergistically with antibiotics to fight infection and will repopulate injured tissue with stem cells, allowing it to regenerate and revitalize.
Common conditions where HBOT may be helpful include: Osteoradionecrosis of the jaw (plus its prevention), facial flap healing, nerve injury, dental infections, post-operative pain and swelling, facial infections, and many others.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy accelerates the healing of any wound, even surgical wounds. It is especially effective when complicated, non-healing wounds, are present. Conditions that have been studied where HBOT can be effective include radiation proctitis, radiation enteritis, non-healing wounds in previously radiated tissue beds, acute pancreatitis, inflammatory bowel disease and complications, postoperative ileus, and abdominal infections such as diverticulitis.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy accelerates the healing of any wound, even surgical wounds. It is especially effective when complicated, non-healing wounds, are present. Conditions that have been studied where HBOT can be effective include radiation proctitis, radiation enteritis, non-healing wounds in previously radiated tissue beds, acute pancreatitis, inflammatory bowel disease and complications, postoperative ileus, and abdominal infections such as diverticulitis.
Consider HBOT after any surgery, especially for patients with comorbidities, such as diabeties, smoking history, or chronic inflammatory conditions.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) can be a vital addition to almost any therapeutic regimen. Is there bacterial overgrowth? HBOT will help. Out-of-control inflammation or infection? HBOT will mitigate and is synergistic with antibiotics. Did the patient just have a hip replacement or any other recent surgery? HBOT will accelerate healing within the first few treatments.
HBOT works by increasing oxygen content in the brain to supraphysiologic levels, enhancing mitochondrial function and modulating over 8,000 genes on our DNA; upregulating those responsible for growth and repair and downregulating those responsible for inflammation and apoptosis.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy works by increasing oxygen content in the brain to supraphysiologic levels, enhancing mitochondrial function and modulating over 8,000 genes on our DNA; upregulating those responsible for growth and repair and downregulating those responsible for inflammation and apoptosis. Research into the use of HBOT for neurologic conditions has grown exponentially in the last several years. Studies from Israel have been published on the positive effects of HBOT on stroke and TBI recovery. There is also good data to support the use of HBOT for brain radionecrosis, anoxic brain injury, autism, mild cognitive impairment, vascular dementia, and migraine headaches. There is also new and exciting data pointing to a roll of HBOT in the treatment of Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis, and even spinal cord injuries.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy has many applications in Obstetrics and Gynecology. HBOT is FDA-approved to treat radiation induced enteritis, radiation proctitis, hemorrhagic cystitis, hematuria, and other types of radiation injury. It has also been shown to potentially enhance fertility by increasing thickness of the uterine lining. Plus, from hysterectomies to tubal ligations, HBOT will also accelerate surgical recovery.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is a versatile adjunctive treatment option in patients with cancer or those suffering the effects of radiation injury from cancer treatment. There is emerging data that HBOT combined with the ketogenic diet may also decrease metastatic burden and studies are currently underway to look at the combination of HBOT and radiation for glioblastoma.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is an advanced wound healing technology that can help patients suffering from a wide range of acute and chronic ophthalmological disorders and diseases. These include: decompression sickness, carbon monoxide poisoning with visual sequelae, arterial gas embolisms, ocular and periocular gas gangrene, central retinal artery occlusions, periocular necrotizing fasciitis, cerebro-rhino-orbital mucormycosis, radiation or mitomycin C-induced scleral necrosis, periorbital reconstructive surgery and radiation optic neuropathy, among others.
Select cases of post-surgical inflammation, Purtscher’s retinopathy, branch retinal artery occlusion with central vision loss, cystoid macular adema, and ischemic optic neuropathy, may also benefit from Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.
Patients who have infections, such as tibial osteomyelitis and refractor osteomyelitis, are oftentimes in pain due to their condition. Depending on their affliction, some symptoms they can experience include tenderness, redness, and fever.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can be useful to patients with such conditions, as it can elevate oxygen tensions that are commonly related to the infected bone, which can hinder the spread of infection, as well as help heal the bone and tissue.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy has become an adjunctive therapy for otolaryngology head and neck surgery. It is indicated for the treatment of osteoradionecrosis of the mandible, necrotizing anaerobic wound infections, and ischemic facial cutaneous flaps.
By increasing the tissue oxygen, your patients can experience accelerated healing.
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment is a proven method used to treat pain management by infusing damaged tissue with oxygen at higher than atmospheric pressure. The oxygen works to relieve and repair damage, offering relief to those who suffer from chronic pain. Hyperbaric oxygen treatment may be used as an alternative to narcotics, which may result in harmful side effects.
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment may be used to not only provide pain relief, but to help patients recover from injury or painful conditions at an accelerated rate.
Young patients can greatly benefit from Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT). Common examples are cases of children who have who have suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning or gas gangrene, but also for those who have been diagnosed with certain chronic conditions and autoimmune disorders.
HBOT allows children to breathe pure oxygen. The increases to blood flow and circulation relieves symptoms, including reducing swelling and pain in these patients.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can help treat patients suffering a wide variety of medical conditions affecting the brain, nerves, spinal cord, bones, muscles, joints, tendons and ligaments.
Dissolving oxygen into all of the body’s fluids—including those of the central nervous system, lymph, plasma and bone—instead of its traditional transportation via red blood cells, can aid in the healing and rehabilitation process by delivering much-needed oxygen to damaged or blocked areas otherwise unable to receive this essential element.
Patients who are going to undergo or who have recently undergone plastic or reconstructive surgery may greatly benefit from the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.
Introducing Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to these patients may greatly reduce side effects of these procedures, decrease the chance of infection and help aid in recovery.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can be used as a complementary treatment for your patients in order to help speed up recovery from podiatric surgery or other ailments.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is indicated for patients with Wagner grade 3 diabetic foot ulcers, chronic refractory osteomyelitis, actute peripheral arterial thrombosis/occlusion/insufficiency, acute traumatic peripheral ischemia, and acute crush injury and suturing of severed limbs when loss of function, limb, or life is threatened.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can be used as a complementary treatment for your patients in order to help speed up recovery or damage from radiation treatment for necrosis, both cancerous and healthy, in the areas irradiated. Radiation has been known to damage blood vessels and this lack of blood supply can eventually cause non-healing wounds to form in soft tissue and bone. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can help aid in your patients healing.
Often patients who have undergone radiation therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer experience symptoms of urinary incontinence, intermittent or constant hematuria, severe dysuria, pelvic or rectal pain, or even erectile dysfunction. These symptoms may be the result of conditions known as radiation injury.
Examples include radiation cystitis, radiation prostatitis, and radiation proctitis.
Symptoms can arise months, if not years, after initial radiation exposure and significantly deteriorate a patient’s quality of life and overall well-being.
To improve the quality of life of these patients and heal wounds caused by radiation therapy, angiogenesis is the key. By speeding up the production of vascularization, HBOT serves to help your patients heal faster from wounds caused by radiation.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can be used as a complementary treatment for your patients in order to help speed up recovery from vascular surgery.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is indicated for the treatment of refractory ischemic wounds of the lower extremities after surgical revascularization or angioplasty.