Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatments Reviews

A Stroke damages the brain and many of the pathways or neural connections to the muscles have been destroyed or damaged and many will never return. Our brain may no longer recognize our body’s position in space let alone how to take control of it, however the brain has a great deal of plasticity and redundancy and it is possible to help restore some of the lost function by training other portions of the brain to take over. It is not an easy process and takes a great deal of time and dedication, however, it is possible to make improvement!

Stroke survivors are often told in traditional therapy, treatment or rehabilitation that “anything you haven’t gotten back in the first 90 days you might never get back!”

The stroke therapy offered at Ability Camp combines Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to help stimulate the injured brain and an intensive and focused therapeutic exercise program called Conductive Education to help repair or form new connections from the brain to the muscles. With the combination of these two therapies we have been able to help people make improvements even 15 years after their stroke occurred.

So even if you aren’t getting results with other types of therapy, treatment or rehabilitation it is not too late and there is still hope using our combined Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Conductive Education programs.

Because oxygen is king among all other elements found in the human body, it is also the best healer as well. Since the medical world finally took notice to the vast rehabilitative and preventative effects associated with oxygen therapy, the hyperbaric chamber has become a fixture in hospitals, clinics, doctors offices, and assisted living homes of all sizes. Day spas, movie sets, luxury jets, and Michael Jackson are all known to utilize oxygenation for natural skin care and anti aging purposes while athletes, cancer patients, people with autism, brain injury victims, and the elderly use oxygen as a means to rehabilitate from physical rehabilitation. Oxygen fills 65% of the air we as humans are made of. There is no question that pure oxygen can rejuvenate cell tissue in almost all circumstances if applied correctly, at a pressure higher than atmospheric. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is most efficiently administered in a special chamber for this specific purpose. A hyperbaric chamber is any enclosure capable of delivering pure oxygen at such a pressure. This said, chambers vary in size, shape, power, and mobility.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been utilized to treat Autism in many countries throughout the globe.  The rationale behind using hyperbaric for Autism is that the treatments increase cerebral blood flow and thus oxygen is delivered to areas of the brain, which are thought to be oxygen deficient.  Greater amounts of blood and oxygen begin to stimulate cerebral tissues and aid in recovery of idling neurons.  HBOT also reduces excess fluids and swelling of brain tissues which aid in neurological function and a less confused state in Autistics.

Hyperbaric is also used as a complementary therapy for the treatment of heavy metal detox for such materials as mercury.  Hyperbaric assists in the metabolism of heavy metal removal.  It can help a patient counteract the effects of heavy metal poisoning and helps body deal with toxins even as noxious as cyanide.  It is often used in conjunction with chelation and other detox procedures to help support the body to deal with the impact commonly seen in the removal of heavy metals, mercury, toxins, and other contaminants.

Worldwide, medical researchers are discovering promising results with the effects of hyperbaric therapy on persons with Autism.

In one study, involving brain functionality and recovery for children with chemical exposures exhibiting PDD disorders, hyperbaric oxygen therapy was found to be remarkably effective.  Treatments consisted of 10 sessions in a hyperbaric chamber at 1.3 ATA, for one hour per day, five consecutive days for two weeks.  To increase validity to the study results, SPECT scans of each patient’s brain were taken before and after the hyperbaric treatments to quantify physical changes to the brain tissue.   The SPECT scan showed an increase to blood flow and oxygen to the temporal lobe. SPECT scans of patients taken before hyperbaric treatments showed a significant amount of dormant activity while scans taken of patient brains after hyperbaric indicated an increase in brain activity and blood flow.  After hyperbaric therapy, dormant brain regions were replaced with greater functioning tissues and represented a scan more similar to a healthy individual.