Photo: West Midlands Fire Service. Staff members have been given access to hyperbaric oxygen therapy at the Midlands Diving Chamber in Rugby, visiting the facility for 90-minute sessions once a day for three weeks. During the therapy, patients are seated in a...
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UK Ranger’s Kemar Roofe uses HBOT to speed up injury recovery
Kemar Roofe begins a Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy session (Image: Daily Record) The striker is out for two crucial games this week but he's doing everything he can to get back. Rangers star Kemar Roofe is leaving no stone unturned to speed up his injury comeback as he...
Can Hyperbaric Oxygen Heal Your Brain?
Research supports hyperbaric oxygen therapy as a treatment for mild brain injuries and Alzheimers disease, but it remains controversial as a treatment for autism.(Nakleyka/Shuttertock) A new study shows promising results for this alternative treatment BY JENNIFER...
‘Promising intervention’ – hyperbaric oxygen therapy could treat long Covid symptoms
LONG Covid has meant that thousands of individuals are still suffering from COVID-19 symptoms, long after initially being infected. Specifically, as of February 2022, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated that around 1.3 million people living in private...
In a first for a state government hospital, Victoria gets hyperbaric oxygen unit
Photo Credit: Special arrangement In a first for a government medical centre in Karnataka, Victoria Hospital got a hyperbaric oxygen therapy unit on Tuesday. The unit has been set up at a cost of Rs 3.5 crore. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a well-established treatment...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy helps treat opioid addiction
SPOKANE, Wash.—Hyperbaric oxygen therapy may help people being treated for opioid addiction reduce their methadone dose and better manage pain and withdrawal symptoms, according to a pair of studies led by Washington State University scientists. The research team...
American Red Cross and Extivita Team Up for a Life-Saving Blood Drive
Extivita and American Red Cross are teaming up to save some lives! American Red Cross supplies 40% of the nation's blood. And when 2022 rolled around and Omicron spread like wildfire across our nation, American Red Cross' worst fears started to come true. There was...
Essentia Health to study impact of hyperbaric oxygen on post-concussion adults
Essentia Health-Fargo will launch the “hyperbaric oxygen for post-concussion” study to examine the impact of hyperbaric oxygen on adults who have persistent symptoms from concussion. This study will be led by Dr. Olayinka Ajayi, a hyperbaric medicine physician; Dr....
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy shown to heal invisible injuries
BURLEY, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — A recent study showed for those with traumatic brain injuries, using hyperbaric oxygen therapy resulted in increased blood flow and more activity in the brain in areas that had been damaged from the injury. At the Health Oxygen Spa in...