A new study just published on Feb 2011 in the journal of cancer makes a strong argument for applying hyperbaric oxygenation therapy (HBOT) for those patients who have had either surgery or radiation therapy for brain tumors. The study followed patients who had been treated with HBOT and there was a marked improvement in cognitive [...]
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This is how hyperbaric oxygen works for these hospital & other conditions
Fibroblast activation (which is new collagen tissue). This explains how hospitals can help to heal non healing wounds as one of the 13 hospital treatments but it also gives way to things like sports injures, surgery, etc.
Neovascularization (new blood vessel formation). That means that it actually creates new blood vessels, in particular to areas of damage and poor circulation. Again, this is one of the published reasons that HBOT is used in hospitals for non-healing wounds and for damage from radiation therapy, but it leads way to countless conditions that are due to poor circulation. How about just aging.
Vasoconstriction (reduce swelling). Again, this applies particularly to non-healing wounds in the hospitals but think of every time you injure yourself and you get swelling in the joints and tissues. Arthritis is a big one, but it is not normally life threatening so we do
not go to the hospital for this procedure.
Anti-Infectious. HBOT has the ability to destroy harmful bacteria while enhancing white blood cells killing activity. This is huge and remember that the hospitals also use this mechanism for life threatening infections, like flesh eating disease or bone infections. Now take this application and think of all the other conditions that are not life threatening that can be helped. Think of all the people on antibiotics. Not only that, there are many conditions that we do not even know about that the root cause is actually an infection.
Stem Cell mobilization. Stem Cell mobilization this is a fascinating one and now we know that HBOT can mobilize stem cells which are brand new baby cells ready to become an active cell in your body, like a brain cell or tissue cell. Again, this is a mechanism of action that may explain the dramatic results in wound healing. But what about other injured tissues, how about the brain for brain injuries or the liver for liver injuries, or kidney and so on.
Reperfusion injury. So after an injury, your body tries to compensate where blood flow and oxygen have been compromised, the body responds by bringing a flux of circulation back but this brings some bad chemicals and poses more of a problem. This is called reperfusion injury and HBOT has been shown to effectively reduce reperfusion injury. Again, it is the non-healing wounds that this has hospital implications for but it opens the door to reperfusion injury from surgery or brain injuries, heart attacks, etc.
So here is the summary of the mechanisms of action for both hospital and non hospital conditions
- Relieve oxygen deficiency
- Support and boost the immune system
- Help repair damaged tissues
- Reduce pain and inflammation
- Decrease edema and swelling
- Help fight infections and other invading organisms
- Aid in detoxification
- Quicker recovery from sports injuries
- Helps to create new blood vessels
- Helps to relieve areas of ischemia and poor blood flow
