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This website is not a substitute for personal medical advice, and it is not intended to replace a personal consultation with a qualified health care professional who becomes familiar with your past and present medical history. Our chambers are approved/cleared by the FDA, however, in the USA, hyperbaric oxygen therapy indications, as per this website, are still under study. The content and information provided on this site is only for informational and educational purposes. Please ask the advice of your own personal physician.

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NFL Divisional Playoffs: Which Players Are Using Hyperbaric Oxygen Chambers?

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at O2.0 - hyperbaric oxygen therapy news2012-01-22.

Are you ready for some football? Many NFL stars these days don’t feel they are unless they’ve spent some quality time in a hyperbaric chamber, either to recover from sports injuries or to enhance their game performance. We find there’s not much clinical evidence to recommend hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for these uses. But to find out which Ravens, Patriots, 49ers, and Giants think

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Postscript: Autism mHBOT Kerfuffle at Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center, Secaucus, New Jersey

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at O2.0 - hyperbaric oxygen therapy news2012-01-16.

The scandal continues in the New Jersey case involving hospital-sponsored mild hyperbaric therapy for children with autism. See our December 19 post, “Hyperbaric Oxygen for Autism: Evidence-based News and Further Reading.” Now the main character in this story, director of the hospital’s Neurosciences Center, has been fired and his appointment to the New Jersey Commission for Brain Injury Research

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Traumatic Brain Injury: More High-Profile Coverage of Treatment with Hyperbaric Oxygen

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at O2.0 - hyperbaric oxygen therapy news2012-01-13.

From this local TV spot one might conclude the evidence is in on HBOT for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It’s not. But important research is under way, and when Michelle Obama appeared this week in Richmond, Virginia, she was making a case for training medical students how best to treat military veterans with TBI and PTSD. Once again we find the stories

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A Phase I Study of Low-Pressure Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Blast-Induced Post-Concussion Syndrome and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at MedWorm: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy2012-01-09.

Journal of Neurotrauma Jan 2012, Vol. 29, No. 1: 168-185. (Source: Journal of Neurotrauma)

Hyperbaric Oxygen for TBI: Some Clinical Evidence New and Forthcoming

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at O2.0 - hyperbaric oxygen therapy news2011-12-28.

In quick follow-up to yesterday’s post (“Former NFL Player Battles Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy”) we refer readers to the latest findings from ongoing clinical trials on hyperbaric oxygen for traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Publishing in the Journal of Neurotrauma in November, Harch, et al, treated 16 military subjects with TBI, postconcussion syndrome, and posttraumatic stress disorder (

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Off the Football Field and Into the Hyperbaric Chamber

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at O2.0 - hyperbaric oxygen therapy news2011-12-18.

Here in Chicagoland we know it’s way too late in the season to save the Bears. But here’s hoping Matt Forte finds a speedy recovery in a borrowed hyperbaric oxygen chamber for his Grade 2 sprain of the medial collateral ligament in the right knee. Coaches and trainers aim to get him back into the lineup by Christmas. Read “Forte doing all he can to heal quickly: Bears running back using

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Research Shows Rx With Hyperbaric Oxygen Improved TBI And PTSD In Vets

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at MedWorm: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy2011-11-29.

Research led by Dr. Paul Harch, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has found that treatment with hyperbaric oxygen nearly three years after injury significantly improved function and quality of life for veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. The findings are available online now in the Journal of Neurotrauma… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Low Oxygen Is Key Factor Affecting Outcomes after Traumatic Brain Injury

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at Newswise Feature Channel: Trauma2011-11-08.

Low oxygen supply (hypoxia) to vulnerable brain tissue is a major contributor to the risk of death or major disability after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), reports a study in the November issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

Crohn’s disease and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at MedWorm: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy2011-11-03.

CONCLUSION: HBO has shown benefits in patients with CD refractory to pharmacologic therapy.
PMID: 22030829 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Acta Cirurgica Brasileira)

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Preconditioning With Repeated Hyperbaric Oxygen Induces Myocardial and Cerebral Protection in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial

This is a syndicated post. Read the original at MedWorm: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy2011-08-25.

Conclusions: Preconditioning with HBO resulted in both cerebral and cardiac protective effects as determined by biochemical markers of neuronal and myocardial injury and clinical outcomes in patients undergoing on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery. No protective effects were noted in off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery. (Source: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia)

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