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Hyperbaric Oxygen Is A Powerful Therapeutic Tool

Hyperbaric oxygen is a powerful therapeutic tool

Hyperbaric Oxygen is a powerful therapeutic tool that is used to address inflammation and hypoxia. Many conditions involve the creation of new blood vessels. It is important to know that this will take a series of treatments.

Hyperbaric Oxygen is a two part treatment which involves the manipulation of atmospheric pressure and the inhalation of in excess of 90% oxygen. In altering both, the primary transport method is via plasma (Henry’s Law)

Studies regarding hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) on angiogenesis demonstrate an increased rate of blood vessel formation. As such, HBOT is a potent though underutilized therapeutic tool capable of augmenting conventional treatment for problematic wounds and grafts.

Neovascularization  ( the formation of new blood vessels) occurs during wound healing and encompasses both angiogenesis and vasculogenesis, and the 2 should be distinguished from one another. Vasculogenesis occurs when bone-marrow-derived endothelial precursor cells (EPCs) migrate to damaged tissue to differentiate and grow into new vessels. Though not the focus of this blog post, it is worth briefly noting that HBOT increases the rate of vasculogenesis via its upregulation of nitric oxide, causing the bone marrow to produce greater numbers of EPCs. Angiogenesis, in contrast to vasculogenesis, is blood vessel growth that occurs as new vessels bud off from existing blood vessels.

Understanding how HBOT works comes only through exposure. Seeing is believing.  This therapy is natural having relatively few side effects. Those occurring are mild in most cases and easily corrected.

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When you say hyperbaric oxygen therapy, many physicians are quick to dismissed it. After all, many medical school curricula have barely enough time to address mainstream treatments and little time to address alternatives in health care. Oxygen is required by every cell in the body. Hypoxia is a term used to describe the lack of oxygen. Cellular hypoxia generates mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative damage, activation of several inflammatory cascades, complement activation and eventually tissue death. HBOT restores oxygen tension maintaining cellular metabolism, restores ATP production, avoids or reduces mitochondrial dysfunction, prevents oxidative stress and apoptosis. Hyperbaric oxygen uses pressure to dissolve oxygen into the fluids of the body. This effect is explained by Henry’s gas law. This same gas law explains the process of carbonation. Coca Cola is bottle, Carbon dioxide is dissolved into the flat cola syrup under pressure, then capped to create soft drink many people enjoy. When the bottle is uncapped the bubble come out of solution. Hyperbaric oxygen has been around for nearly 200 years. Using systemic delivery, HBOT is capable of delivering up to 20 times the normal oxygen by diffusion to the tissues in critical need.

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