Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) has been used in the treatment of decompression sickness for many years and is now being used to restore some of the brain function lost due to injury or disease. Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Stroke, Lyme’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis as well as developmental delays and other neurological issues can be treated by HBOT. In a wide range of conditions where tissues have been damaged by oxygen deprivation such as inflammation and infections, HBOT is successfully being used. HBOT can also slow the aging process through treating aging cells with pure oxygen causing the regeneration of these cells.
In Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy the patient breathes one hundred percent pure oxygen intermittently under a pressure of greater than sea level or one atmosphere. The treatment occurs in a painless and non-evasive way in a canvas chamber. Through only the patient breathing, the level of oxygen in the body is increased to 20 times higher than normal. The body is flooded with oxygen that forces the rapid elimination of other gases – reducing damage caused by toxic gases in the body. Toxin production is stopped in gas gangrene, and carbon monoxide is moved from possible neurological damage. Hyperbaric oxygen acts as an alpha-adrenergic drug causing vasoconstriction. When the blood vessels constrict, the flow of blood is restricted or slowed and this can result in reduction of edema following burns or crush injuries.
Processes that are essential for wound healing are oxygen dependent so in the case of wounds such as burns, tissue oxygen tensions are restored back to appropriate levels. The diffusion of oxygen increases two to three times under hyperbaric conditions in wounds with restricted blood flow resulting in a rich vascular bed for healing with or without skin grafting.
As mentioned, HBOT therapy is completely painless and non-evasive. Patients comfortably lie down in the canvas chamber and read, watch DVDs or simply relax as the pressurized oxygen repairs their cells for 60 minutes. Adults as well as children can be treated with parents being able to join their small children in the chamber as there is plenty of room.
Dr. Koh is one of a few select Doctors of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine (DAOM) in the U.S. Dr. Koh has extensive experience as a practitioner and an educator, currently being a Professor of Acupuncture at Stanton University.
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