Benefits of
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy :
- Improves circulation
- Increases metabolism
- Supports toxin elimination
- Help to recover faster after an intense exercise
- Improves wound regeneration
- Increases energy
- Increases endurance
- Reduces lactic acid
- Reduces pain and inflammation
- Reduces anxiety and stress
- Promotes deep sleep
- Improves skin tone
- Supports weight loss
- Improves memory
- Improves mental acuity and concentration
- Alleviates headaches and migraines
- Reduces muscular stiffness
Here is the list of
conditions currently accepted by the Undersea and Hyperbaric
Medical Society (UHMS) and applied in a few hospitals:
- Embolisms (air or gas
bubbles in the bloodstream);
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
(from inhaling smoke or car exhaust);
- Gas gangrene;
- Crush injury, Compartment
Syndrome and other acute traumatic problems where blood flow
is reduced or cut off (e.g., frostbite);
- Decompression sickness
(the bends);
- Enhancement of healing
for wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers;
- Exceptional blood loss
(anemia);
- Intracranial abscess
(an accumulation of pus in the brain);
- Necrotizing soft tissue
infections (flesh-eating disease);
- Osteomyelitis (bone
infection);
- Delayed radiation injury
(e.g., radiation burns that develop after cancer therapy);
- Skin grafts and flaps
that are not healing well;
- Thermal burns (e.g.,
from fire or electrical sources).
However, the UHMS and
Health Canada are under a thunderstorm of criticism as they have
not updated this list in the last 40+ years despite undeniable
scientific AND clinical evidences which confirms HBOT's efficacy
for numerous alternative indications such as: