What is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)?
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Hypberbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is a treatment that enhances your body’s natural healing processes. It works through increased pressure and increased oxygen. Oxygen is and integral part of healing. HBOT can be used to treat a wide variety of conditions, including stroke, cerebral palsy, head injuries, and chronic fatigue. There are many benefits to HBOT and minimal side effects.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a specialised oxygen therapy that enhances your body’s natural healing process through breathing increased oxygen in a chamber where atmospheric pressure is increased and controlled. Both the increased pressure and increased oxygen are bioactive and have independent, overlapping, and interactive effects on our body and disease processes. The increased oxygen at pressure allows extra oxygen to reach all of the damaged tissues and helps the body in the healing process. The combination of increased atmospheric pressure and increased oxygen in a chamber treats a wide variety of medical conditions, usually as part of an overall medical care plan.
What Are the Benefits of HBOT?
There are numerous benefits of HBOT. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy helps improve the quality of life for people in many areas in which standard medicinical treatments are not working.
There are many medical conditions that have responded well to HBOT, including strokes, cerebral palsy, head injuries, chronic fatigue, and wounds of many different causes.
Expedited Healing
Healing cannot take place without appropriate oxygen levels in the tissue and cells. Many illnesses and injuries fail to heal because of inadequate oxygen levels. Inflammation, swelling, and reduced blood flow all contribute to non-healing. This means adequate oxygen is unable to reach the damaged area. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy causes increased oxygen under pressure, which provides this extra oxygen to tissue and cells with minimal side effects.
New Cell Regeneration
HBOT encourages the formation of new collagen (connective tissue) and new skin cells. It does this by generating new blood vessel formation. It also stimulates cells to produce certain substances, like vascular endothelial growth factors. These attract and stimulate endothelial cells which are necessary for healing.
Helps With Anti-Aging
HBOT treats the cumulative wounds of life, or as it is called more frequently, aging.
Can HBOT Help You?
Yes, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can help you. If your condition involves injury, wounding, loss of blood supply, or inflammation, we would be surprised if HBOT did not help you.
Based on how HBOT works, by treating disease processes that are common to many diseases, it is highly probable that HBOT could help you.
Frequently Asked Questions About Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
There are several common questions about hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Here are the answers for you.
What Is a Hyperbaric Chamber?
A hyperbaric chamber is a vessel that fully encloses the human body. In a full-body hyperbaric oxygen chamber, the air pressure is increased to allow your lungs to dissolve much more oxygen in your blood than would be possible breathing pure oxygen at normal air pressure outside the chamber.
What Does Oxygen Do for the Body?
Oxygen is known as the substrate of life. It is an integral part of the equation where our body burns fat, sugar, and protein to produce the energy that drives all body functions and keeps us alive. At normal temperatures on Earth, oxygen is 21% of the air we breathe and a gas that our body needs in order to work properly. Your cells need oxygen to make energy. Your body’s tissues require an adequate amount of oxygen to function. Your lungs allow oxygen to be dissolved from the air you breathe directly into your blood. When you are in a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber, the increased air pressure helps your lungs move more oxygen in your blood. When your blood carries this extra oxygen throughout your body, it helps fight bacteria and stimulates growth factors and stem cells which promotes healing.
What Are the Side Effects of Oxygen Therapy?
The side effects of oxygen therapy are minimal. The most common side effect is barotrauma to the ears and sinuses caused by the change in pressure. To minimize this risk, patients learn techniques to promote the adequate clearing of the ears during compression. In extremely rare circumstances, when all available techniques do not allow a patient to clear their ears, tubes can be inserted in the patient’s ears. Occasionally, some patients might experience changes in their vision during the treatment period, but this is usually only with high pressures of oxygen and long durations of treatment. When they occur, these changes are usually mild and temporary if the HBOT is discontinued or other accommodations are made. An extremely rare side effect is oxygen toxicity, which is caused by administering too much oxygen.
What Medical Conditions Does HBOT Help Treat?
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can possibly be used for any condition that involves injury, wounding, loss of blood supply, or inflammation.
These are just a few of the conditions that are frequently treated with HBOT:
Please keep in mind that these are just a few examples of conditions that can benefit from Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.
HBOT for Exercise Recovery
“Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been reported to be beneficial in terms of accelerating cell recovery and tissue repair, which are considered to be helpful for eliminating fatigue and recovering stamina.”
HBOT Study on Stamina
Top athletes in sports have touted the use of oxygen therapy. These athletes include UFC’s Urijah Faber, soccer’s Cristiano Ronaldo, swimming’s Michael Phelps, and pro wrestling’s Daniel Bryan. The training staff of major-league teams in professional sports regularly use hyperbaric therapy for injured players as well.
HBOT isn’t just for healing anymore. Many of these athletes now make it a regular part of their training routine to speedy recovery. When athletes work their muscles hard enough, it becomes deoxygenated and fills with lactic acid. A hyperbaric environment should theoretically help flush the muscle with fresh oxygen faster, returning it to full strength.
We recommend regular HBOT sessions for our Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ), Muay Thai, Boxing, Wrestling and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) students. If you’re a student at Kings and interested in a HBOT session come and see us at the front desk for more information.
HBOT Sessions
If you’d like to book a Hyperbaric Oxygen session at Kings please check out our FAQ here:
HBOT FAQ and send us an SMS for details on times and cost. SMS at 0416 598 211 with your name and any ailments you are looking to treat.
To learn more about HBOT check out our Facebook page here:
Oxygen at Kings on Facebook which has numerous articles, studies, podcasts on the benefits of HBOT for various ailments as well as improved performance.
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Oxygen at Kings is the Premier Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) location servicing
Liverpool and Greater Western Sydney and is located inside Kings Academy of Martial Arts.
