FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
What Information Do I Need to Share With My Healthcare Provider Before My Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Session?
Let your healthcare provider and/or hyperbarics technician know:
- If you’re experiencing cold or flu symptoms, ear or sinus infection, ear canal problems, fever, sinus or nasal congestion, or chest congestion.
- If there is a possibility that you may be pregnant.
- If there has been a change in any of your medications including any non-prescription medications.
- If you have skipped a meal prior to your treatment.
- If you are diabetic and did not take your insulin prior to your treatment.
- If you have any concerns or anxiety.
Other Frequently Asked Questions:
Benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy include:
Improved Immune Function
Antiviral/Antibacterial
Boosts white blood cell counts. White blood cells help fight and prevent disease by making antibodies that attack bacteria and toxins, helping to destroy infected or cancerous cells, and identifying and eliminating pathogens.
Accelerated Tissue Healing
Oxygen is our most essential nutrient, crucial for proper and efficient healing of most injuries. Hyperbaric therapy significantly increases oxygenation of the body’s tissues, helping your body to heal itself in profound ways.
Increased Stem Cell Production
Stem cells replace specialized cells in your body that are damaged or lost. By increasing stem cell production by over 800%, hyperbaric oxygen therapy can vastly accelerate healing.
Increased Blood Flow
Increase blood flow and circulation through new blood vessel growth via a process called angiogenesis. Blood flow is crucial for healing and for optimal organ function.
Reduce Inflammation
Inflammation has been shown to be at the root of most chronic disease. Oxygen under pressure activates genes that reduce inflammation and promote profound healing.
Reduce Pain
By increasing oxygenation of the body’s tissues, increasing blood flow and reducing inflammation, hyperbaric oxygen therapy can greatly reduce pain and support healing.
Conditions Treated by Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Include:
FDA Approved Conditions
- Diabetic wounds
- Crush injury
- Necrotizing soft tissue infection
- Compromised skin grafts
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Nitrogen narcosis (decompression sickness)
- Refractory osteomyelitis
- Radiation injury
- Thermal Burns
- Intracranial abscess
- Exceptional blood loss (anemia)
- Gas gangrene
- Refractory osteomyelitis
- Gas embolism
Other Conditions Supported by the International Hyperbaric Association:
- Antiviral/Antibacterial
- Autism
- Athletic injury
- Cellular regeneration
- Cerebral palsy
- Crohn’s disease
- Cancer
- Concussion
- Enhanced Immune Function
- Irritable bowel disease
- Lyme disease
- Macular degeneration (wet)
- Migraines
- Multiple sclerosis
- Neuropathies
- Post traumatic stress (PTSD)
- Rheumatism
- Scleroderma
- Stroke
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Ulcerative colitis
FDA Approved Conditions
- Diabetic wounds
- Crush injury
- Necrotizing soft tissue infection
- Compromised skin grafts
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Nitrogen narcosis (decompression sickness)
- Refractory osteomyelitis
- Radiation injury
- Thermal Burns
- Intracranial abscess
- Exceptional blood loss (anemia)
- Gas gangrene
- Refractory osteomyelitis
- Gas embolism
Other Conditions Supported by the International Hyperbaric Association:
- Antiviral/Antibacterial
- Autism
- Athletic injury
- Cellular regeneration
- Cerebral palsy
- Crohn’s disease
- Cancer
- Concussion
- Enhanced Immune Function
- Irritable bowel disease
- Lyme disease
- Macular degeneration (wet)
- Migraines
- Multiple sclerosis
- Neuropathies
- Post traumatic stress (PTSD)
- Rheumatism
- Scleroderma
- Stroke
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Ulcerative colitis
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