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Uses for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

 
The conditions that hyperbaric oxygen therapy is approved by the FDA to treat include:

• Some non-healing wounds
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Necrotizing soft tissue infections
• Complications of radiation therapy / radiation tissue damage
• Osteomyelitis
• Air or gas embolism
• Clostridal myositis and myonercrosis / gas gangrene
• Exceptional blood loss / anemia
• Decompression sickness (The Bends)
• Thermal burns
• Skin grafts and flaps
• Crush injury
• Intracranial abscess
• Arterial insufficiencies

A few off-label conditions commonly treated by hyperbaric oxygen therapy include:

• Traumatic brain injury
• Closed head injury
• Bell’s palsy
• Cerebral palsy
• Parkinson’s disease
• Myocardial infarction
• Stroke
• Coma
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Mascular degeneration
• Cancer
• Chemotherapy recovery
• Amputation recovery
• Treatment of limb / digit injuries
• Reattachment surgery recovery
• Plastic surgery recovery
• Arthritis
• RSD
• Multiple sclerosis
• Migraines / headaches
• Staph infection
• Dementia
• Epstein-Barr
• Lyme disease
• Hansen’s disease
• Tuberculosis
• AIDS
• Autism 
• Conditioning therapy
• Spider / snake bites
• Near drowning

Hyperbaric oxygen essentially kick-starts the body’s natural healing capabilities. As a result, it is often used to treat slow-healing wounds,as well as sports injuries, auto accident injuries, brain trauma, burns,strokes, and much more.