Hyperbaric Oxygen Benefits
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Take a breath. The air you just took in is made up of about 21 percent oxygen. When the capillaries in your lungs pick up the oxygen, it dissolves in the plasma of your blood, and gets carried to all parts of your body. And 21 percent oxygen is usually plenty to do the job.
But if you have an injury perhaps 21 percent is not enough. If you want to get the full benefits of oxygen you may need to do more.
That's where the benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can really make a difference.
If you have a foot ulcer, for example, the effected tissue in your foot, and your entire body, could use even more oxygen. The white blood cells that fight infection near the ulcer use twenty times more oxygen when they are killing bacteria.
Also, the more oxygen your body has to work with, the more efficiently it lays down wound-repairing connective tissue.
Yet, just when you need more oxygen, you may have less. If you have neuropathy (diabetic nerve damage), that may cause changes in blood flow, resulting in islands of low oxygen levels in your foot. Less oxygen means slower healing, and an ulcer that doesn't heal could eventually lead to an amputation.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy forces oxygen into the blood plasma and the lymph, which, normally, do not carry oxygen.
This dissolved oxygen is more readily used by the body then the oxygen normally carried by the red blood cells. Because, oxygen carried in fluid is immediately available to the body's cells, while oxygen in the red blood cells is less, and requires the use of energy to make it available. As a result, the additional oxygen allows tissues to function more normally.
"Caregivers often see the improvements from the HBOT before we do, they are so “connected”. It is always emotional for us."
Al Reach
Just Add More Oxygen
So, you should try to get extra oxygen in your blood when you have a foot ulcer. You need to bring the oxygen levels in the tissues around the ulcer up to normal, or even higher.
But, sitting in your living room and breathing in 100 percent oxygen won't do the trick. Here's why...
Under normal circumstances, only so much oxygen will dissolve in your blood. It's like trying to dissolve salt in water. When you pour a spoonful of salt into a glass of cold water, not all of the salt dissolves. Simply adding more salt doesn't make the water dissolve more salt. But when you pour a spoonful of salt into a glass of hot water, all the salt dissolves. At higher temperatures, more salt dissolves. What temperature does for salt in water, pressure does for oxygen in blood. At higher pressures, more oxygen dissolves.
The Hyperbaric Oxygen Difference
We think we can help you understand the benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy better. That's what this website is about.
Although HBOT is a medical procedure that has been used since the 1950's for treating scuba divers with the bends, surgical wounds, carbon monoxide poisoning and other serious wounds and infections the newer and sometimes controversial uses are only now being talked about.
Most good hospitals offer Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in some form but many may not take full advantage of it's potential. Our goal is to spread the word about HBOT and help it take it's rightful role as a leading therapy for many conditions.
Here's what one patient suffering from memory and balance problems had to say...
My experience with hyperbaric treatments is that it is an excellent way of treating brain functions. There is an excellent possibility that this treatment can help anyone with bad circulation, balance problems and memory problems. F.C.,Phoenix, AZ
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