What is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy?

At Physiomed, we offer Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT). Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is a non-invasive treatment designed to provide additional oxygen to patients in need, promoting healing and aiding in recovery.

Oxygen is an essential nutrient for our bodies. While we can survive without food for 30-40 days and without water for 3-4 days, we can only endure 3-6 minutes without oxygen. Oxygen is necessary for nourishing healthy tissues, aiding in the restoration of damaged tissues, and promoting the generation of new tissue.

Tissues that have been affected by disease or injury typically require increased amounts of oxygen during the healing process. The patient breathes 96% to 100% oxygen in a pressurized chamber that surpasses normal atmospheric pressure. This pressure alters the ratio of oxygen in plasma and red blood cells, facilitating the cells’ absorption of higher oxygen concentrations.

During the session, the oxygen pressure within the tissues significantly increases, both in normal and circulation-compromised tissues (provided complete cessation is not present). Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is a scientifically accepted technology that assists in treating many challenging, persistent, and costly health problems.

Its therapeutic role lies in its unique ability to modify tissue and organ oxygenation through qualitative and quantitative enhancement of the body’s defense and healing mechanisms when the usual oxygen transport is insufficient for the desired outcome.

Administering Hyperbaric Oxygen is entirely safe and effective when following the diagnosis and treatment protocol outlined by the specialized personnel at Physiomed.

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Why is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Effective?

Thousands of medical studies over the past 30 years have confirmed that:

● It reduces inflammation and swelling
● It provides a significant amount of oxygen to hypoxic tissues
● It neutralizes the effects of toxins and poisons at a cellular level
● It promotes the growth of new blood vessels
● It improves oxygen delivery to tissues, even under reduced blood flow
● It enhances the function of white blood cells against infections
● It alleviates pain associated with ischemia
● It boosts wound healing by stimulating fibroblast growth, collagen synthesis, and neovascularization
● It aids the body in eliminating toxins and metabolic waste
● It enhances the body’s ability to combat infections
● It shortens recovery time after intense exercise
● It improves oxygen supply to muscles during subsequent-day events

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is beneficial for various conditions:

● In aesthetic medicine and orthopedics due to its regenerative and anti-edematous effects on cells
● In pathologies like chronic asthmatic bronchitis, diabetic ulcers, cardiac ischemia, etc.
● In neurosurgery and neurology for conditions such as dementia, stroke, paralysis, neuropathies, autism, schizophrenia, headaches, migraines, etc.
● In surgery for wound infections, ulcers, burns, etc., due to its wound healing acceleration
● In dermatology for conditions like acne, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, hair loss, etc.
● In ophthalmology for diabetic retinopathy
● In sports medicine as it accelerates injury healing and improves athletic performance (used by many professional athletes)

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is indicated for various situations:

● In sports injuries (muscle strains, tendon injuries, ligament injuries, fractures, etc.) and overuse syndromes (tendonitis, stress fractures, periostitis, etc.)
● In headaches
● In cerebrovascular accidents
● In multiple sclerosis
● In chronic fatigue
● In neurological problems due to inflammation and local hypoxia, including sudden deafness (or acute deafness), Bell’s palsy, and other mononeuropathies
● In spinal cord injury (acute) and other central nervous system disorders (brain, spinal cord)
● In neurosensory vertigo – acute deafness
● In fractures – delayed or incomplete consolidation, pseudarthrosis
● In bone edema
● In aseptic bone necrosis (avascular necrosis – AVN), especially femoral head (avoids joint replacement, disappearance of bone lesions in most cases of stages I & II)
● In osteomyelitis
● In compartment syndrome
● In post-radiation tissue damage
● In vascular diseases – Buerger’s disease, Raynaud’s syndrome
● In acute embolism of the central retinal artery
● In decompensated blood loss
● In sickle cell crisis and other hypoxic complications of sickle cell anemia (lower limb ulcers included)
● In gas gangrene – clostridial pyoderma
● In threatened skin-myocutaneous grafts
● In necrotizing soft tissue infections
● In diabetic foot (included in selected cases of problematic ulcers for promoting wound healing) – contributes to ulcer healing, treatment of potential underlying osteomyelitis, and avoids amputation
● In thermal burns
● In promoting healing in problematic ulcers
● In adjunctive therapy in intracranial abscesses
● In arterial air embolism – air/gas embolism
● In carbon monoxide poisoning – smoke inhalation
● In diver’s disease
● In chronic prostatitis
● In certain resistant mycoses: mucormycosis, invasive aspergillosis
● In spider bite
● In inflammatory bowel disease – Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis (in some cases)

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What is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy?

Why is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Effective?

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is beneficial for various conditions:

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is indicated for various situations:

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