Benefits

What Are The Benefits?

• Treat non-healing wounds: Many factors can keep a wound from healing quickly: tissues aren’t getting enough oxygen (hypoxia), tissues aren’t being repaired fast enough, reduced immune response, and inflammation prolongs tissue swelling. Instead of relying on blood vessels to provide the oxygen, HBOT pushes oxygen into your tissues from the outside. If you see no progress in wound healing after two weeks, ask your doctor if HBOT would help.
• Helps with the poor immune response against infections: White blood cells need large amounts of oxygen, as provided by HBOT, to kill bacteria. HBOT is especially helpful with deep bone infections (osteomyelitis), flesh-eating infections, brain abscesses, and chronic infections.
• Treat injuries: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy wound healing is often used especially where blood vessels have been damaged and can’t transport the oxygen and nutrients required to repair tissues. HBOT can help build new blood vessels, which build new tissues that increase healing.
• Reduce inflammation: Treatment is helpful with inflammation related to transplanted tissue, skin grafts, and reconstructive surgery; wounds caused by diabetes complications, crush injuries, amputations, and the chronic inflammation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
• Treat anaemia: Anemia is a blood disorder that causes a loss of blood, which makes it harder for your body to get oxygen to cells.
• Helps with irritable bowel syndrome (ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease): It can also help heal painful mouth sores, digestive tract ulcers, and fistulas (an abnormal passage from the skin into the body). These wounds increase the risk of infections and cannot be treated with external wound care. HBOT gets oxygen deep into tissues and wounds that extend to the bone. These are often resistant to antibiotics.
• Reduce pain from IBD, wounds, surgery, and non-healing stomach ulcers.
• Treat traumatic brain injury: (caused by concussions, contusions, skull penetration, or tearing caused by twisting of the brain), brain injury caused by carbon monoxide or cyanide poisoning, and decompression sickness. Lack of oxygen is usually linked to most brain injuries.
• Treat acquired brain injuries, such as strokes, tumours, degenerative diseases, and toxins, which are also related to insufficient oxygen. HBOT helps heal brain injuries by increasing oxygen, suppressing inflammation, decreasing cell death, and reducing pressure inside the skull from swelling, blocked circulation, or damaged tissue. HBOT can bypass vessel blockage or destruction by delivering oxygen directly to brain tissue.
• Treat the damage done by cancer treatment, such as radiation. Radiation can cause brain injury, sores that lead to bone death, radiation burns, and radiation-induced wounds. Radiation to the head and neck can cause painful damage to salivary glands, mouth tissue, teeth, and jaws. Chest radiation causes the skin to break down, leading to infection and pain. Radiation to the mid-section can cause bladder pain and incontinence. HBOT helps stimulate cell growth in the lining of the bowels by building new blood vessels. New vessels build new tissue to aid wound healing.
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy benefits skin by correcting age spots, repairing sagging skin, and providing an overall youthful appearance.