Why Does Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Work?
If the doctors treating us in American understood why hyperbaric oxygen therapy works, they would use it.
”Give me air!” An exclamation we’ve all heard from anyone feeling the lack of oxygen. Oxygen is an essential to life and when it is deprived, our heart beats faster, we have shortness of breath, our skin turns blue and we get mentally confused. We die without oxygen. These outward appearances of our body being denied oxygen are signs of hypoxia which is the lack of oxygen in the tissues.
The symptoms of many medical conditions often include hypoxia. Think about hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) as a way to provide the oxygen needed in a more effective way than just breathing it at normal atmospheric pressure. Oxygen makes up 21 percent of the atmosphere. If we breathe oxygen under pressure, the tissues can overcome hypoxia.
American doctors recognize HBOT as being the appropriate medical treatment for some conditions. Often they associate hyperbaric oxygen chambers with divers of the United States Navy that are treated for decompression sickness. It is sad that equal time isn’t given to medical doctors to understand HBOT as a science supported by the gas laws of physics. Few American medical schools offer the study of HBOT; therefore, it is not a conventional way to treat patients in America. However, other countries have been using it for many years. They get better results and less costs because their patients’ conditions are actually healed and do not require endless follow up. The continuing education for most American doctors comes from or is sponsored by pharmaceutical companies. This may explain why hyperbaric oxygen therapy is not used more often.
(look for next article: History of Hyperbaric Oxygen)
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