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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy



 

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy brings oxygen to promote healing

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is a therapeutic technique that increases oxygen and air pressure to the patient. The increased oxygen and air pressure put more oxygen molecules into red blood cells as well as the plasma - the liquid that contains the red blood cells. HBOT's ability to increase the oxygen helps the patient's cells improve the healing process - killing bacteria, reducing swelling and inflammation, and repairing damages tissues. Plasma oxygenation carries oxygen molecules even deeper into tissues, areas that often are too small for the oxygen in red blood cells to be effective. HBOT is non-invasive, natural, painless,and has a minimal risk to side effects.


The following is a list of many conditions with documented benefit from hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an “off-label” treatment:

  • Autism/ Autistic Spectrum Disorders
  • Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome AIDS/ HIV
  • Allergies, Asthma, Immunity
  • ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)
  • Alzheimer’s
  • Arthritis- Rheumatoid, Osteoarthritis, Osteoarthrosis
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Attention Deficit Disorder
  • Bells Palsy
  • Brain Injury / Encephalopathy
  • Burns
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Cancer
  • Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction/ CFIDS/ CFS
  • Coma
  • Cosmetic Surgery/ Plastic Surgery
  • Crohn’s Disease
  • Dementia
  • Depression
  • Diabetes
  • Epilepsy/ Seizure Disorders
  • Fibromyalgia
  • General Health
  • Hearing Loss
  • Heart Disease/ Cardiac
  • Hepatitis
  • Infection
  • Injury Healing
  • Interstitial Cystitis
  • Lupus
  • Lyme Disease
  • Macular Degeneration
  • Memory Loss
  • Menopause Symptoms
  • Migraines
  • Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Near Drowning
  • Neuropathy
  • Ocular (Eye) Conditions
  • Orthopedic
  • Osteoporosis
  • Parkinson’s
  • Post-Polio
  • Post- Surgery / Plastic Surgery
  • Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/ RSD
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Rheumatic Diseases
  • Seizures
  • Spinal Cord Injury
  • Sports Performance & Injury
  • Stroke
  • Surgery/ Post Surgery
  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • General Wound Healing and Post Surgery Healing

The following is a list of the fifteen conditions that are FDA approved for treatment with hyperbaric therapy. These conditions are typically reimbursed by insurance and include:

  • Actinomycosis
  • Air or Gas Embolism
  • Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Smoke Inhalation
  • Clostridial Myonecrosis (Gas Gangrene)
  • Cyanide poisoning
  • Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome, and other Acute Traumatic Ischemias
  • Decompression Sickness
  • Diabetic Wounds*
  • Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
  • Osteomyelitis (Refractory)
  • Radiation Tissue Damage (Osteoradionecrosis)
  • Severe Anemia
  • Skin Grafts and Flaps (Compromised)
  • Thermal Burns
*Must meet the following criteria
  • Patient has Diabetes type I or II with a lower extremity wound due to the condition
  • Patient has wound classified as Wagner grade II or higher
  • Patient has failed adequate course of standard wound therapy