Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) helps relieve pain points like chronic inflammation, slow-healing wounds, and post-surgical recovery. By delivering concentrated oxygen to tissues, it speeds up healing, reduces swelling, and supports the body’s natural repair processes. It’s especially beneficial for diabetic ulcers, radiation injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and long COVID symptoms. HBOT also enhances immune response and fights infection, making it a powerful, non-invasive therapy for those seeking faster recovery and relief from persistent symptoms.
What Is HBOT (Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy)?
HBOT or Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is where you lie or sit inside a pressurised chamber and breath in increased purity of oxygen, the increase in atmospheric pressure enables the oxygen to dissolve into the blood plasma saturating the fluid and bringing about a wide range of positive cellular, biochemical, and physiological effects.
Clinical research studies have demonstrated Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy’s ability to enhance the body’s natural healing ability’s and used as a supplementary form of therapy to amplify the healing process for critical and ongoing illness and health conditions.
Benefits of HBOT (included but not limited to):
- Tissue repair (E.G sports injuries, diabetic foot ulcers, non-healing wounds, radiation induced tissue damage)- Accelerated recovery and improved outcomes
- Autoimmune disorders (E.G Rheumatoid Arthritis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis)
- Neurological conditions (E.G Stroke, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, cognitive impairment)
- Autism – improving socialisation, communication & behaviour.
- Critical illnesses including Cancer – Believed to sensitise tumor cells to treatment, increases oxygen levels in hypoxic tumor regions, enhances the delivery of chemotherapy drugs to cancer cells.
- Anti-aging effects through improving telomere length (which shortens as we age), clearance of senescent cells and stimulating collagen production, increasing skin elasticity and reducing wrinkles.
HBOT is not just for those with health conditions, it is beneficial for those who are just looking for wellbeing or to prevent illness.
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How Many Sessions Will I need?
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy has a cumulative effect which means you need repeated sessions to start seeing results, most people start seeing positive results after 3 – 4 sessions, some conditions like carbon monoxide poisoning can be fully treated in 3 – 4 sessions but other conditions like non healing wounds for example usually take 20 – 40 sessions, the basic hyperbaric protocol advised by the International Hyperbaric Association for serious conditions recommends 40 sessions, at least 3 sessions spread out over the week is recommended, 5 sessions a week is ideal.
To gain an accurate therapy plan, appropriate for you, we will always advise a free initial consultation with a clinician before HBOT is commenced.
What To Expect During Your HBOT Session
Your 60-minute session will last around 90 minutes in total, due to the time taken to allow the chamber to reach full pressure, we also need to decompress the chamber slowly at a rate that’s comfortable for you. During the compression of the chamber, you may feel some discomfort in your ears like what you feel when going up in an airplane, we will teach you how to clear your ears correctly and our technician will be in constant contact with you during this time using a 2-way radio. Once the chamber reaches full pressure it is then time to put on your oxygen mask and relax, you can either have a sleep for the 60 minutes or read a book, play on a mobile device. Once your 60-minute session is finished we will then decompress the chamber. If you need to end your session early, then you can just speak to the technician on the radio, and they will begin to decompress the chamber.