Question 1

does a hyperbaric oxygen chamber help with recovering from a pcl injury?

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No: Hyperbaric oxygen promotes the healing of open wounds when the tissue is devitalized or has a poor blood supply because of diabetes, infection, radiation, or trauma. Although it helps with delayed or compromised healing of open wounds, it won't accelerate the normal rate of healing of a PCL injury if you already have a good blood supply with none of the above risk factors for poor healing.

Question 2

who cannot use a hyperbaric oxygen chamber?

Accepted Answer

The following:: Must not - people with a collapsed lung or are using medications that impair wound healing (cisplatin, sulfamylon), affect the lungs (bleomycin) or other (doxorubicin, disulfiram). Might not - those with asthma, claustrophobia, copd, pregnancy, an epidural pain pump, a pacemaker, seizure disorder, upper respiratory infection, high fever, eustachian tube dysfunction, or congenital spherocytosis.

Question 3

can you treat parkinson's with a hyperbaric oxygen chamber?

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Parkinson's: The research that has looked at this issue is not conclusive. This indication is not one of the those approved for payment from medicare so the cost burden returns to the patient.

Question 4

what are the benefits of hyperbaric oxygen chamber?

Accepted Answer

Helps heal wounds: Two main properties by which hbot helps are (1) pressure effects and (2) effects from breathing 100% oxygen under pressure. 
Pressure effects helps with diving injuries which can result in "bends" - increased pressure allows bubbles to become smaller which can be then eliminated by the body.
Increased oxygenation helps heal  wounds such certain diabetic wounds, radiation wounds.See www.Uhms.Org.

Question 5

what are the effects of the hyperbaric oxygen chamber?

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Oxygen/blood supply: Best would be to look online-- in short, the pressure forces more oxygen into solution( in blood), and this non-cellular part of the blood, plasma, can nourish parts of the skin etc that are fed by small vessels, where the cells, which usually carry most of the oxygen, are too big to reach.  This, along with the formation of new blood vessels helps healing specific wounds.  +++++.

Question 6

is it possible that hyperbaric oxygen chambers can help your general health long-term?

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Maybe: There are no studies to prove long term well being is enhanced but  perhaps someone will investigate and report their findings

Question 7

is hyperbaric oxygen chambers useful  for autism?

Accepted Answer

Inconclusive: Various news media and nontraditional societies advocate hyperbaric/100% treatment for autism. There are no conclusive studies to support this, although the treatment issued in europe.  In the us, huber aric treatment is only approved for the bends, wound healing and carbon monoxide poisoning. The dangers of hyperbaric chamber treatment outweigh the benefits (if any) at this time.  Oxygen toxicity.

Question 8

does hyperbaric oxygen help you to recover from brain injury?

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Yes: Texas researchers have found that patients with long-standing but stable traumatic brain injury (tbi) show a general improvement in speech, memory and attention after undergoing a series of hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatments. Dr. Paul harch and colleagues presented their findings in seattle at the undersea and hyperbaric medical society annual scientific meeting.

Question 9

does hyperbaric oxygen help brain injury or stroke?

Accepted Answer

Helps breain injury: For traumatic brain injury, one randomized trial provided fair evidence that hbot might reduce mortality or the duration of coma in severely injured tbi (traumatic brain injuries) patients - but reported poor functional outcome so be cautious
for stroke - most observational studies reported favorable, and sometimes dramatic, results, but failed to prove that these results can be attributed to hbot.

Question 10

is hyperbaric oxygen therapy effective for sports injuries?

Accepted Answer

It might: It is a very expensive trreatment but its greatest benefit is treating spinal injury asap. Read my blog "oxygen, the spark of life" you can google. Oxygen is the very root of energy metabolism and a great deal of energy is required for healing. But, like everything else, it has to be dosed. Too much oxygen is as bad as too little.

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