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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Benefits | Fayetteville, NC
What Are The Benefits Of
Hyperbaric Chamber (HBOT) Therapy
There are several benefits associated with intermittent exposure to hyperbaric doses of oxygen. Under hyperbaric conditions, tissue levels can exceed 800 mmHg. Either alone, or more commonly combined with other medical and surgical procedures, these mechanisms serve to enhance the healing process of treatable conditions.
Heal Bone, Graft, Wounds, and Injuries
An increase in the distance which oxygen diffuses from functional capillaries into hypoperfused wounds. Initially, this provides oxygen to hypoxic tissues; later, this results in angiogenesis, which enables healing in bone and skin grafts, compromised grafts, selected problem wounds, and radiation-induced injuries.
Decrease Toxin Growth
Inhibition of microbial growth, deactivation of bacterial toxins, and enhanced white blood cell function in necrotizing infections, osteomyelitis, and soft tissue infections that have not responded to conventional therapies.
Reduce Reperfusion Injury
Early utilization of hyperbaric oxygen reduces the reperfusion injury that is the cause of much of the damage that is associated with an abrupt reduction in blood flow to tissues, most importantly in compromised flaps and grafts.
Mobilize Stem Cells
Recent research has demonstrated that hyperbaric oxygen mobilizes stem cells, which then target injured areas. This is an exciting new finding that may have long term implications in wound healing.
What Else
Does Hyperbaric Therapy Do?
The tissues of your body need oxygen to function. This oxygen is usually carried throughout the body by red blood cells. When tissues are injured, they require more oxygen to survive and to heal. Since the amount of oxygen that can be carried by red blood cells is limited, hyperbaric oxygen therapy allows the plasma of your blood to carry the much-needed oxygen to your injured tissues.
By placing the body under pressure while breathing 100% oxygen, the plasma becomes super-saturated with oxygen. The plasma then becomes the conduit for oxygen transport to tissues that are compromised by direct trauma, radiation from cancer therapy, swelling or edema, and diabetic vascular disease, among other causes. Under hyperbaric conditions, tissues become hyperoxic (higher than normal levels of oxygen).
When you are not in the hyperbaric environment, the tissues that are injured are hypoxic (lower than normal levels of oxygen). This large change in tissue oxygen tensions promotes the growth of new blood vessels into these hypoxic tissues, called neovascularization.
Other Hyperbaric Therapy Benefits?
Blood Cell Creation
for Injured Tissues
of Stem Cells
Inflammatory Responses
Improves Quality of
Life in Patients
No Downtime after
HBOT Chamber Session
Most Conditions
Covered by Insurance
How A
How a Hyperbaric Chamber Works
White blood cells help to kill bacteria. In order to make superoxide radicals that kill bacteria, large amounts of oxygen are needed. Tissues that do not have a good blood supply cannot provide the levels of oxygen needed for efficient bacterial killing. Hyperbaric oxygen provides the needed oxygen to maximize the effectiveness of the body’s defense mechanism to kill invading bacteria.
Hyperbaric oxygen has also been shown to reduce the body’s inflammatory response. This is vital to the survival of transplanted flaps and skin grafts. When reconstructive surgery is performed.