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.
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.
How does HBOT help Radiation Injury?
- Enhances fibroblast proliferation and collagen synthesis, decreasing fibrosis
- Enhances leukocyte oxidative killing
- Has a potent anti-inflammatory effect reducing swelling and edema
- Stimulates angiogenesis
- Synergistic effect of HBOT plus antibiotics by enhancing bacterial cell wall penetration and direct toxic of effect of HBOT on anaerobic organisms
- Enhances stem cell proliferation from the bone marrow and migration to the area of injury
At Elevate Care, we can successfully treat patients with radiation injury. Give us a call for more details about our HBOT protocol for radiation injury, and to book your first treatment. Our state-of-the-art clinic features knowledgeable staff, a relaxing environment, and comfortable hyperbaric chambers. We’d love to answer your questions and look forward to working with you.