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BENEFITS

Strengthens the immune system.

HBOT can disable the toxins of certain bacteria. It increases oxygen concentration in the tissues. This helps them resist infection. In addition, the therapy improves the ability of white blood cells to find and destroy invaders.

Stimulates the release of stem cells necessary for the body’s healing process:

Stem cells are crucial to injury repair. They exist in the bone marrow of our bodies and are capable of changing their nature to become part of many organs and tissues. In response to injury, these cells move from the bone marrow to the injury site where they assist in the healing process.

The movement of stem cells can be triggered by a variety of treatments including HBOT (and pharmaceutical drugs.  HBOT is the safest way clinically to increase stem cell circulation and has no harmful side-effects as is often the case with pharmaceuticals.

Reduces wound healing time:

Wound injuries (internal or external)damage the body’s blood vessels, which releases fluid that leaks into the tissues and causes swelling. This swelling deprives the damaged cells of oxygen and tissue starts to die. HBOT reduces swelling by flooding the tissues with oxygen. The elevated pressure in the chamber increases the amount of oxygen in the blood. HBOT aims to break the cycle of swelling, oxygen starvation and tissue death.

Reduces the inflammatory response:

Nearly every injury process, causes a secondary injury – inflammation.  The inflammatory response occurs when tissues are injured by bacteria, trauma, toxins, heat, etc. The damaged cells release chemicals which cause blood vessels to leak fluid into the tissues, causing swelling, compression of blood vessels, less blood flow and less oxygen -a vicious cycle follows. These chemicals also attract white blood cells called phagocytes, that act like pac-men – they “eat” germs and dead or damaged cells. These phagocytes eventually die.

As oxygen serves as one of the primary mechanisms to improve inflammation, HBOT creates the environment where this process is stimulated and enhanced.  HBOT treats the acute inflammatory process and long-term end-products of the body’s inflammatory reaction.

Strengthens the lungs:

Breathing almost pure oxygen at 1.45ATA can increases the concentration of oxygen available to the lungs

Improves circulation:

HBOT reduces the symptoms of poor circulation by flooding all the body’s tissues with a high concentration of oxygen. This increases the amount of oxygen in the blood and helps break the cycle of tissue swelling, oxygen starvation and tissue death.

HBOT also improves the function of blood vessels which in turn strengthens blood flow and supports better circulation.

Prevents “reperfusion injury:

That’s the severe tissue damage that happens when the blood supply returns to the tissues after they have been deprived of oxygen. When blood flow is interrupted by a crush injury, for instance, a series of events inside the damaged cells leads to the release of harmful oxygen radicals. These molecules can do damage to tissues that can’t be reversed and cause the blood vessels to clamp up and stop blood flow. HBOT encourages the body’s oxygen radical scavengers to seek out the problem molecules and allow healing to continue.

Fights infection:

HBOT can disable the toxins of certain bacteria. It also increases oxygen concentration in the tissues. This helps them resist infection. In addition, the therapy improves the ability of white blood cells to find and destroy invaders.

Detoxification:

Oxygen under pressure actually aides  the body in the elimination of excess fluids and swelling and with that release of inflammation, harmful chemicals and toxins are carried out of the cells and out of the body.

Builds new Blood Vessels:

HBOT forces more oxygen into the plasma and surrounding tissue, encouraging the formation of new blood vessels. As these new blood vessels develop, the red blood cells start to flow, delivering even more oxygen to the affected area.  This creates the optimal environment for the body’s own healing processes to repair damaged tissue.

Builds new bone – Osteogenesis:

Osteoblasts are the cells responsible for bone formation and osteoclasts are the cells responsible for bone reabsorption. Both these cells work together to form bones and control the amount of bone tissue.

The provision of increased levels of oxygen allows for increased production of these cells and enables them to repair and restore bones through the reduction of swelling and growth of new blood vessels.