WHAT IS HBOT?

HBOT is a medical treatment that uses pure oxygen to speed and enhance the body's natural ability to heal. High dose oxygen therapy is an American Medical Association, FDA and Medicare approved modality. While sometimes used as a primary emergency treatment, it is more often used as a cost effective adjunct or enhancement therapy.

Patients who may benefit from HBOT suffer from various diseases or injuries associated with hypoxia, or lack of oxygen on a cellular level. It is at this cellular tissue level where all life takes place.

During therapy, the patient breathes pure, 100% oxygen under increased atmospheric pressure. (The air we normally breathe contains only 19-21% of this essential element, and unlike HBO, requires energy to be delivered to the cells.) The concentration of oxygen normally dissolved in the bloodstream is thus raised many times above normal - up to 2000%. In addition to the blood, all body fluids including the lymph and cerebrospinal fluids are infused with the healing benefits of the molecular oxygen. It can reach bone and tissue which are inaccessible to red blood cells, enhance white blood cell function, and promote the formation of new capillary and peripheral blood vessels. This results in increased infection control and faster healing of a wide range of conditions.

* Information received from Ocean Hyperbaric Center Pediatric Division pamphlet, released by the staff at Ocean Hyperbaric Center. http://www.oceanhbo.com