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What is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)?Medical Study- Lyme Disease Treated with HBOT
Fife W.P. and Freeman D.M. Preliminary Clinical Study on the Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for the Treatment of Lyme Disease. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Hyperbaric Laboratory, 1997. Forty patients with Lyme disease were treated with HBOT 5 days per week for approximately 4 weeks. All but 2 cases improved, and improvement persisted after HBOT was discontinued, even when they discontinued antibiotic therapy. Symptoms that improved included mental confusion, pain, depression and fatigue. This was a pilot study. HBOT must therefore be considered experimental in treatment of Lyme disease.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, or HBOT, works by fueling the body at a cellular level with the most essential of all life elements: Oxygen. Normal cells thrive on oxygen. When they are saturated with this element (as they are inside the hyperbaric chamber), the cells perform at an optimal level.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy has produced benefits in a range of conditions and slows the aging process, by stimulating the production of mitochondria inside cells. This increases the cells energy and is precisely why so many anti-aging products and cosmetic treatments have been built around the concept of infusing the skin with oxygen—cells that are saturated with Oxygen perform and look their best. This holds true whether the cells make up our most vital organs or the surface of our skin!
During an HBOT session, you will lie comfortably in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber while approximately 4 lbs of pressure, per square inch of skin, push the life-enhancing element deep into layers of your tissue and organs. After one hour, Oxygen has completely saturated your body, down to blood plasma and tissue fluids. You will have breathed 2.4 lbs of pure oxygen. When deep-residing cells are flooded with a healthy dose of oxygen, the body’s healing ability is enhanced, and it can return to an optimal state of balance at a faster rate. At Progressive, you receive a perfectly balanced prescription of integrative therapies and complementary treatments, tailored to rebuild and restore wellness according to your individual needs. All under one roof, right here in Atlanta. Hyperbaric Oxygen has been used to treat the following conditions:
What is it like inside the Hyperbaric Chamber?Many users fall asleep inside the comfortable Hyperbaric Chamber during a session that lasts between thirty minutes to an hour. Other than a slight popping sensation in the ears, caused by the increase in bariatric pressure, there are no noticeable differences between being in the chamber and in the outside world. To resolve the popping sensation, you can simply yawn or wiggle your jaw, as you would on an airplane. Hyperbarics: Part of Integrative Treatment at Progressive
The skilled team of physicians at Progressive Medical Center in Atlanta, the most comprehensive integrative medical center in the Southeast, typically integrates Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy with other treatments as appropriate, like detoxification, nutritional supplementation, and Intravenous Therapies. “While any of the complementary therapies offered at Progressive are effective when used alone, the benefits are increased exponentially when a multi-angled approach is adopted,” says Dr Frank Matalone, Attending Physician, at Progressive, with extensive education and training in Hyperbaric Medicine. At Progressive, you receive a perfectly balanced prescription of integrative therapies and complementary treatments, tailored to rebuild and restore wellness according to your individual needs. All under one roof, right here in Atlanta. Hyperbaric Oxygen: A Time-Tested TreatmentFor approximately 350 years, doctors have used Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in some form to improve a myriad of health problems (from stroke to crush and burn victims, and more) and today HBOT has been used with equally transformative results in even more applications; from the most life-threatening, to simply slowing down the aging process, thinking more clearly, or boosting immune systems.
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Medical Study: Treatment of Migraine with HBOT W.P Fife, C.E. Fife, Texas A&M Hyperbaric Laboratory, College Station, Texas 77843 and Hyperbaric medicine, F.G Hall Hypo-hyperbaric Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710
The results of hyperbaric oxygen treatment were remarkable for their reproducibility. Of the 26 patients who were treated, all but two obtained complete relief within 27 min. In most instances, complete relief from nausea, if it was present, came within the first 5 min after oxygen breathing was began, and complete relief from pain and photophobia came within 12 to 16 min. Both patients with facial hemiparesis had resolution of their neurologic deficit during treatment.
HBOT and Cancer Treatment
Otto Warburg won a Nobel Peace Prize for medicine in 1931 for his work in discovering that cancer cells have lower respiration rates than normal ones. He postulated that cancer cells therefore grow better in a low-oxygen environment, and that introducing higher oxygen levels can retard their growth or kill them. Additional medical studies have indicated that HBOT restricts the growth of large tumor cell colonies (click here for supporting study) in breast cancer.
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