Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

[.... callchet ....]

Any body have experience ? Good treatment or dangerous ?

[supernova]

1. It's good for wound healing

acceleration, esp burns.

[flyingfysh]

2. this is a well-known treatment

When indicated, it can be very effective. Why would you have doubts about it?

[.... callchet ....]

6. No doubts

wondering if it was worth $50/half hour or a scam.

[flyingfysh]

11. at that price, it's cheap

I would have expected a higher charge, considering that the chambers are expensive. $50/half hour is not a scam.

[uppityperson]

23. What would you be getting treated for?

There are uses and misuses, wondering what you would be getting treated for?

[trotsky]

3. Ask your doctor.

Do not ask for medical advice on DU.

[.... callchet ....]

5. Was asking if anybody had experience with it.

I was at the bank today and saw a billboard advertising it. I called and it was a chiropractor selling it for $50/ half hour treatment. I have read all the internet data, but was asking for personal experience for validation.

[flyingfysh]

13. never trust the advice of chiropractors

Only go for it if a real doctor recommends it. Chiropractors are quacks.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

18. I heard the same thing about chiros but didn't believe it so I went to a chiro

My lower back was a mess! I had pain upon sleeping, pain upon getting up, pain during the day. My doctor's solution was schedule me for tests, and prescribe pain killers, Ibuprofen and up. A chiropractor treated me (24 visits), and slowly the pain went away. I no longer have the pain. I'm so glad I went to him.

[cosmik debris]

17. You should never ever get a hyperbaric treatment

without the supervision of a real doctor--NOT a chiropractor.

[elleng]

4. Good when indicated.

Family experience.

[supernova]

7. Duke University Medical Center - Hyperbaric Therapy indications

Indications for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

• Air or gas embolism
  
• Decompression illness
  
• Carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation
  
• Clostridial myonecrosis (gas gangrene)
  
• Crush injury, compartment syndrome and other acute traumatic ischemias
  
• Enhance healing in selected problem wounds
  
• Exceptional blood loss or severe anemia
  
• Necrotizing soft tissue infections (subcutaneous tissue, muscle, fascia)
  
• Refractory osteomyelitis
  
• Radiation tissue damage (osteoradionecrosis and soft tissue radionecrosis)
  
• Compromised skin grafts and flaps

http://hyperbaric.mc.duke.edu/indications.htm

[Warpy]

8. Good when it's needed

Useless when it's not.

For a while it was in vogue for rich drunks who wanted to sober up fast.

It didn't work.

[supernova]

9. LOL!

on the rich drunks.

There's a long-running diving study here.

Periodically you can see people around town with T-Shirts that say how far "down" in so many feet they've been in the chamber. :-)

[Tesha]

21. Well, it at least kept the drunks off the streets for 30 minutes or so... (NT)

[cosmik debris]

10. Diabetics with open sores

get a lot of benefit from hyperbaric chambers.

[DCKit]

15. Yet nobody ever suggested the * administration operate within such a chamber. n/t

[cosmik debris]

16. Huh?

[DCKit]

20. BushCo - the largest open sore in U.S. history.

Sorry, I was distracted when writing the original.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

12. I've flown out severe CO poisoning patients to a hospital with a hyperbaric chamber.

It works great for that.

David

[rainy]

14. I have a step-niece who had brain damage from suffocation when she was

a baby who benefited from the therapy greatly. She did better and better on tests each time she had therapy until the last time when it stopped working.

I also talked to a Geriatric Medicine Physician about the therapy helping dementia patients and he said he had a friend in Florida who is experimenting with it on dementia patients.

[MichaelHarris]

19. complete

scam that could actually harm you.

[xchrom]

22. Oxygen Bars!

:woohoo: