Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment

Breathing oxygen sustains our life, and heals injuries to the skin, muscle, bones and tissues. Hyperbaric oxygen treatment increases the oxygen flow, for treating severe injuries to tissues, when conventional methods will not provide sufficient healing or likely to prevent death. Treatment begins, when a patient is inside a hyperbaric chamber, where 100 percent oxygen is circulated. Inside the chamber, oxygen is pressurized to two or three times, greater than normal, and patient is either sitting or lying comfortable, with a nurse or respiratory therapist, trained in Hyperbaric Medicine. During the treatment, lungs and skin absorb more concentrated oxygen, within a shorter period of time. Average treatment time, in a hyberbaric chamber is ninety minutes daily, for five days a week, and minimum of twenty treatments, depending on an individual plan. Patients undergoing this treatment, will notice "popping" or fullness in the ear, as the chamber pressurizes, similar to taking off or landing in a plane. Originally, the treatment helped scuba divers, when they got "the bends", when ascending from deep depths to quickly. This causes nitrogen gas bubbles forming in the lungs, tissues and bloodstream. This blocks flow of blood, and constrict the blood vessels. Treatment inside a hyberaric chamber neutralizes the effects of the nitrogen.