Hyperbaric Oxygen: A Story of wound healing

This is the story of a beautiful young actress who had a horrible accident

and an almost miraculous recovery.

One day, she was using a table saw, when suddenly the machine

malfunctioned and the blade broke and flew directly at her face,

striking her cheekbone. The swelling and the blood blinded her within

moments. After struggling for moments, panicked by the feeling that she

had lost her eye she finally was able to reach help.

This is the photograph two hours after the accident.

Her eye was swollen shut, and the inflammation enlarged her nose and

face. Since she was an actress, she was terrified that a scar would remain

if not properly treated. She refused to be stitched and looked for alternative

therapies.

She heard about HBOT.

For the next seven days, she did daily two-hour sessions in a Mild Hyperbaric

Tank and used Arnica cream, a well-known anti-inflammatory homeopathic.

After seven days, here was the result.

She now had full use of the eye. The facial swelling has significantly decreased.

The wound has entirely closed, and there is very little bruising. The dark portions

in the picture are scabs which are in various stages and healing beautifully.

With an injury like that this is the image you would expect after several weeks, not one.

These are incredible results, by any standard. How does the wound look today?

Almost a year later? So good, that it doesn’t even photograph. It is virtually

invisible, almost like it never happened.

The combination of HBOT and arnica cream produced results that one would

not have even thought possible, even with surgery. The results truly speak for

themselves.

I think this is an awesome story and great example how Mild Hyperbaric

treatments can make a huge difference on wound healing, in fact wound healing

is the one application where results are guaranteed.

Mild Hyperbarics - A general insight and who is at high risk

Did you know…

As we age, our ability to consume sufficient oxygen decreases between 5 and 10% every decade starting at age 25. This is assuming that you don’t fall under any of these high-risk categories for oxygen deficiency: smoking, frequent participation in intense exercise or sports activities, or working in sealed buildings, high-stress environments and excessive work hours. In consequence that means that in the normal process of aging we become more oxygen deficient whether we like it or not, and it might be worse for those of us that fall into those higher risk categories.

Higher risk groups and people who could benefit:

• Elderly
• Smokers
• Those who work in a sealed building
• Those who participate regularly in sports activities
• Those who live in cities with high pollution
• Those with frequent headaches, or migraines
• Those who work in a sealed building
• Those who live at high altitudes
• Frequent airplane flyers
• Those who work regularly excessive hours
• Those with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Those who participate in regular heavy exercise
• Those with Epstein-Barr Virus    

That’s what first made me look for a solution and what I found was mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). Mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy uses a pressurized chamber to force higher than normal levels of oxygen into the tissues and plasma of the body. Our lungs take in oxygen and pass it along to the blood cells that carry it to various parts of the body through the circulatory system. Some parts of the body, however, may not be receiving sufficient oxygen through this system, especially if the body’s circulatory system is impaired, or if the environment one is in is oxygen deficient. HBOT enables these deprived areas an alternative means of receiving oxygen, despite impairments to other systems.

The basic scientific principle behind HBOT is that law that states if a gas and a liquid are forced together with sufficient pressure, the gas will go into the liquid. Think of a carbonated beverage. Carbon dioxide is forced into filtered water through pressurization. Your body is fundamentally composed of water. If oxygen is applied to your body with sufficient pressure, the oxygen will enter the body.

The experience is painless and the pressure is actually not very great, roughly four pounds per square inch, which is equivalent to the pressure at the bottom of a swimming pool ten feet deep. This mild pressure allows oxygen to reach remote areas of the body, even the brain. According to one study, it "increases the amount of oxygen dissolved in plasma by 10 to 15 times, doubles or triples the oxygen diffusion distance and results in elevated tissue oxygenation, which lasts for two to four hours after the hyperbaric oxygen treatment."¹ It also causes, vasoconstriction, or a narrowing of blood vessels. This can reduce or eliminate a migraine and decrease swelling in swollen areas of the body. In addition, it has antimicrobial or germ-killing, effects. And finally, it enhances neo-vascularization, or the formation of new blood vessels.²

The most incredible aspect of this therapy is its ability to speed up the body’s healing process and allow for rapid regeneration of wounded tissues. It dramatically heals post-surgery recovery times on many operations. Bruised tissues skips color phases and returns rapidly to normal tone and health.

The pinnacle of its regenerative abilities was demonstrated many years ago by one of the foremost experts on HBOT and one of the pioneers of this field³ used HBOT to restore brain function to the impaired brains of stroke victims with great success.

This is what triggered me to become interested in HBOT and I want this blog to become a forum for discussing the many different applications, benefits, and successes of using mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy..

References

1 http://www.muhealth.org/~anest/hyperb.htm

2 see 1

3 Kazantseva Method of treatment in ischemic stroke, 1985 (Russ.)