For Your Consideration

NOT ALL HYPERBARIC CENTERS ARE THE SAME
NOT ALL HPERBARIC CHAMBERS ARE THE SAME

Hyperbaric oxygen is a medical treatment in which pure oxygen (100%) is applied to the entire body under increased pressure. “Hyper” means increased and “baric” refers to atmospheric pressure. Thus a hyperbaric treatment consists of a treatment that includes both the use of pure oxygen and increased pressure. Hyperbaric oxygen must be applied to the entire body to be effective. The pure oxygen under pressure is breathed into the lungs and raises the oxygen levels in the blood and tissues to hundreds of times greater than normal. This increased oxygen has a beneficial effect on the whole body and favorably effects the immune and inflammatory systems.

Many of the hyperbaric chambers used in non medical facilities or at home don’t really provide effective hyperbaric treatments. Some of these portable units use room air at 21% oxygen in comparison to 100% in our hyperbaric chambers. Also some units are only capable of delivering a mild pressure elevation in comparison to our chambers which are capable of increasing the pressure to 3 times normal.

Articles

Asthma and Sport Scuba Diving

Asthma is a common medical condition affecting approximately 5 to 10% of the population…

Less Pain, Swelling...Faster Healing with Hyperbaric Oxygen

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Recovery Under Pressure

What does cosmetic surgery have in common with scuba diving? Hyperbaric oxygen is famous for treating decompression sickness, is now available to cosmetic surgery patients wishing to accelerate their recovery time Sophie Gordan reports.…

Speed Recovery

Ralph Potkin, MD explained to Jodi Thiessen how the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen may hold the key to a quicker recovery time.…

Effect of Hyperbaric Oxygen on Wound Healing In Patients Undergoing Laser Skin Resurfacing

Background: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) is well established as an adjunctive treatment in burn patients (Hart et aI, 1974). Plastic and reconstructive …

Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy After Facial Rhytidectomy

Patients undergoing facial rhytidectomy surgery are expected to accept a moderate to severe degree of postoperative swelling during the first 7 to 14 days. …

The Best Seat in the House

Brief excerpt from "The Best Seat in the House" by author Allen Rucker...“Two years into this thing, I developed some nasty sores on my feet and legs...In the world of the sick, we call these bedsores, ulcers, or problem wounds."…

"A Gifted Autistic!" The Autism Perspective, Spring 2006

A candid interview of John Seitz..."What my autism gave me was an ability to really see and to understand the mechanics of stress in the human body."…

For Your Consideration

NOT ALL HYPERBARIC CENTERS ARE THE SAME NOT ALL HPERBARIC CHAMBERS ARE THE SAME Hyperbaric oxygen is a medical treatment in which pure oxygen (100%) is applied to the entire body under increased pressure. “Hyper” means increased and “baric” refers to atmospheric pressure. …

Pulminary Barotrauma Associated with "Lung Packing"

Lung packing is a method of increasing lung volume above total lung capacity used by breathhold divers. This maneuver has been associated with hypotension and impaired cardiac output. Lung volumes increase significantly by this maneuver and may result in pulmonary barotrauma.…

Effects if Glossopharyngeal Insufflation on Cardiac Function: An Echocardiographic Study in Elite Breath-Holding Divers

Competitive breath-hold divers utilize a variety of techniques to increase lung capacity to achieve greater diving depths. One technique is glossopharyngeal insufflation. (GI) has been thought to decrease venous return, causing a fall in cardiac output and arterial blood pressure (BP).…

PREDICTORS OF "CHEST SQUEEZE" IN BREATH-HOLD DIVERS

Hemoptysis has been observed in breath-hold divers. The source and cause of the bleeding has not been well characterized. Possible sources include the pulmonary parenchyma, trachea and/or sinuses. …

Brain-damaged crash survivor from Lawrenceville mending Oxygen chamber treatment in California is making difference

Sometimes a fresh start begins with a few deep breaths. Demetrius Randle — a 45-year-old Lawrenceville man who suffered brain damage last spring in a wreck that killed his daughter, son and grandson — has taken a lot of deep breaths lately.…

Effects of glossopharyngeal insufflation on cardiac function: an echocardiographic study in elite breath-hold divers

Glossopharyngeal insufflation (GI), a technique used by breath-hold divers to increase lung volume and augment diving depth and cluration, is associated with untoward hemodynamic consequences. To study the cardiac effects of GI, we performed transthoracic echocardiography, using the subcostal window, in five elite breath-hold divers…

BRAIN FUNCTION IMAGING IN ASYMPTOMATIC ELITE BREATH-HOLD DIVERS

Breath-hold divers have been known to have adaptive mechanisms that allow prolongation of apnea beyond the limits of non-diving subjects. Central nervous system abnormalities are well described in scuba and breath-hold divers suffering from symptomatic decompression illness and barotrauma. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) abnormalities…

Hyperbaric Treatment For Children With Autism: A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial: Methods

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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Speeds Healing, Naturally

Oxygen, one of the most essential elements of life, offers a natural and often quicker pathway to healing when administered under pressure, a technique known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). From Repairing soft-tissue injuries to relieving the symptoms of stroke, autism, lyme disease, multiple sclerosis and memory loss after surgery, hyperbarix oxygen therapy's health benefits are gaining the attention of the medical community. …