Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is a therapeutic technique that increases oxygen and air pressure to the patient. The increased oxygen and air pressure put more oxygen molecules into red blood cells as well as the plasma - the liquid that contains the red blood cells. HBOT's ability to increase the oxygen helps the patient's cells improve the healing process - killing bacteria, reducing swelling and inflammation, and repairing damages tissues. Plasma oxygenation carries oxygen molecules even deeper into tissues, areas that often are too small for the oxygen in red blood cells to be effective.

Conditions with documented benefit from hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Autism, AIDS/HIV, Allergies, Asthma, ALS, Alzheimer's, Arthritis, Atherosclerosis, ADD, Bells Palsy, Brain Injury / Encephalopathy, Burns, Cerebral Palsy, Cancer, Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction, Coma, Cosmetic / Plastic Surgery, Crohn's Disease, Dementia, Depression, Diabetes, Epilepsy / Seizure Disorders, Fibromyalgia, General Health, Hearing Loss, Heart Disease, Hepatitis, Infection, Injury Healing, Interstitial Cystitis, Lupus, Lyme Disease, Macular Degeneration, Memory Loss, Menopause Symptoms, Migraines, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Multiple Sclerosis, Near Drowning, Neuropathy, Ocular Conditions, Orthopedic, Osteoporosis, Parkinson's, Post-Polio, Post- Surgery / Plastic Surgery, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/ RSD, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatic Diseases, Seizures, Spinal Cord Injury, Sports Performance & Injury, Stroke, Surgery / Post Surgery, and Traumatic Brain Injury.

Conditions FDA approved for hyperbaric therapy, typically reimbursed by insurance

Actinomycosis, Air or Gas Embolism, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Smoke Inhalation, Clostridial Myonecrosis (Gas Gangrene), Cyanide poisoning, Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome, and other Acute Traumatic Ischemias, Decompression Sickness, Diabetic Wounds, Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections, Osteomyelitis (Refractory), Radiation Tissue Damage (Osteoradionecrosis), Severe Anemia, Skin Grafts and Flaps (Compromised), and Thermal Burns.