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How Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Can Accelerate Recovery from Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries
Brain injuries, whether mild or severe, can result in long-lasting cognitive impairments that diminish quality of life. From memory loss to difficulties in concentration, these symptoms often persist for months or even years, making it hard for patients to resume their normal activities. One promising treatment for these chronic neurocognitive deficits is hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). At Pacific Hyperbarics, we are at the forefront of using HBOT to help patients recover from brain injuries and regain cognitive function.
What are Chronic Neurocognitive Deficits?
After a traumatic brain injury (TBI), some patients develop chronic neurocognitive deficits, which can include:
Memory problems
Trouble with attention and focus
Poor problem-solving abilities
Difficulty with multitasking
Persistent headaches
These deficits can significantly impact daily life, job performance, and relationships, leaving many patients feeling frustrated and hopeless.
Traditional Approaches vs. HBOT
Traditional treatments for chronic neurocognitive deficits often focus on symptom management through medication or cognitive rehabilitation. While these methods can be helpful, they do not address the underlying damage to brain cells caused by the injury.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), however, targets the root cause by enhancing the body’s natural healing processes. By increasing the amount of oxygen delivered to damaged brain cells, HBOT can stimulate cell repair and improve cognitive function, offering a more comprehensive solution for long-term recovery.
The Healing Mechanisms of HBOT
In a hyperbaric chamber, patients breathe pure oxygen under increased pressure, allowing more oxygen to dissolve into the blood. This oxygen-rich environment enhances:
Cellular Repair: Oxygen promotes faster repair of damaged cells and tissues, helping to regenerate brain cells.
Inflammation Reduction: Brain injuries often cause inflammation that impairs function. HBOT reduces inflammation, allowing the brain to heal more effectively.
Neurogenesis: HBOT stimulates the growth of new neurons, aiding in brain recovery and helping to improve cognitive abilities.
Research Supporting HBOT for Brain Injuries
Research into the effects of HBOT on brain injuries has shown promising results. A retrospective analysis conducted at Pacific Hyperbarics evaluated the impact of HBOT on patients with chronic neurocognitive deficits post-TBI. The findings were encouraging:
Patients experienced significant improvements in memory and attention after HBOT treatments.
Headaches, a common symptom of TBI, were reduced in frequency and intensity.
Many patients reported feeling more mentally alert and able to handle daily tasks with greater ease.
These results highlight the potential of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to provide lasting relief for patients dealing with the aftereffects of brain injuries.
The HBOT Process at Pacific Hyperbarics
Initial Assessment: Every patient undergoes a comprehensive evaluation to determine the extent of their cognitive deficits and whether HBOT is suitable.
Customized Treatment Plan: Each patient receives a tailored treatment plan designed to meet their specific needs, including the recommended number of therapy sessions.
HBOT Sessions: During each session, the patient rests comfortably in the hyperbaric chamber while breathing pure oxygen. The sessions last about 60-90 minutes, and multiple sessions are typically required for optimal results.
Ongoing Monitoring: Throughout the therapy process, our team tracks the patient’s progress and adjusts the treatment plan as needed.
Success Stories from Pacific Hyperbarics
At Pacific Hyperbarics, we have seen numerous success stories from patients who have undergone HBOT for chronic neurocognitive deficits. For instance:
David, a 42-year-old patient, suffered from memory and concentration issues after a fall that resulted in TBI. After completing his HBOT sessions, he noticed a significant improvement in his ability to focus at work and manage complex tasks.
Samantha, a young mother, experienced persistent headaches and mental fog after a car accident. HBOT helped reduce her headaches and improved her overall cognitive clarity, enabling her to return to her daily routine.
Conclusion :-
If you or a loved one is struggling with the long-term effects of a traumatic brain injury, hyperbaric oxygen therapy at Pacific Hyperbarics offers a promising solution. By promoting brain cell repair, reducing inflammation, and supporting cognitive function, HBOT can help patients overcome chronic neurocognitive deficits and return to their lives with renewed clarity and energy.
Contact Pacific Hyperbarics today to learn more about how HBOT can help you on your path to recovery.
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mama a girl devoured
#💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥#kit posts#off season#mugello gt testing#gt is just so good to him bro like a day inside a hyperbaric oxygen chamber or some shit get him out of my sight#max verstappen
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re prev post... I need more people who followed me for Ted Lasso to understand how wildly fucking insane rl football actually gets.
I'm keeping a tally of unhinged moments I want to shove into my fic for this fandom, such as "Goalkeeper gets sent off and a random player has to stand in goal now" or "Goal disallowed because buttocks were offside; ass too big!" or "Crazy penalty shoutout ends with 44 total penalties taken" or "League champions celebrate in the dark after rivals turn off stadium lights after final whistle"
And maybe some people will think I'm making this all and I just have a great imagination, but actually? This ALL happened in club football just this week
#ofc the nswl is the highlight because. as a lesbian. well#but I have a soft spot for 'defender scores WILDLY INSANE VOLLEY from near the halfway line'#and 'EPL current oldest scorer credits his 2-hours daily naps in his personal hyperbaric chamber for keeping him fit'#and the dollarumma bills. wow what a week this has been#sports#casually yeeting this into the#ted lasso#tags.... @ me for more borderline unhinged BUT TRUE footie facts#futbol
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Like puzzle pieces
(We used to fit so well)
Drew for this thread give it a read 🥹
#anakin can't sit still and concentrate for meditation so Obi-Wan places him on his lap and holds his hands#obi wan is so used to it that even in The After he still meditates with his hands in the middle of his lap#as if waiting for another pair to place themselves on top of his#(in the privacy of his hyperbaric chamber Vader meditates with his palms down#fingers sometimes clenching as if he's trying to hold on to something)#they kill me#star wars#sw#star wars fanart#padawan anakin#young obi wan#obi wan kenobi#anakin skywalker#obi wan and anakin#obikin#my art
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Abduction + Memory + Time + Fireworks + Dispersal thank goodness they didn't do seven seasons of this naming convention...
Okay folks, even though this aired quite a while ago I just now watched it, so I'm just now writing about it.
Awl - X-Ray + Penny - Duct Tape + Jack - CD + Hoagie Foil - Guts + Fuel + Hope - Wilderness + Training + Survival - Father + Bride + Betrayal - Lidar + Rogues + Duty - Nightmares - Seeds + Permafrost + Feather - Friends + Enemies + Border - Mason + Cable + Choices - Bitter Harvest - Kid + Plane + Cable + Truck - Tesla + Bell + Edison + Mac - Golden Lancehead + Venom + Pole Vault + Blood + Baggage
In conclusion to the nanotracker story arc, Mac and Riley go missing for over 24 hours. When they reappear, not only have they no memory of the previous day, but video footage shows them obeying dozens of commands, including one to fight each other and one to fire a weapon at a mannequin (though based on a line Mac says later, this horrifyingly might not have been the original version of this scene).
Vowing not to allow their bodies to be used against their will again, Mac and Riley decide to undergo a potentially dangerous treatment- exposing the nanites to high concentrations of oxygen in a hyperbaric chamber.
Just because mind control nanites are still pretty science fiction, this post will mostly be about hyperbaric medicine.
Hyperbaric Chambers:
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment is a type of treatment that uses high pressure and high oxygen concentrations to treat a variety of illnesses and injuries. These include things like non-healing wounds, crush injuries, carbon monoxide poisoning, cyanide poisoning, severe infections, and delayed radiation injuries.
A patient is placed into a chamber like the one above (though there are also larger chambers that can accommodate multiple people). Oxygen or medical air is then forced into the chamber, increasing the pressure to the prescribed depth. Depths vary depending on patient needs and the capabilities of the chamber, but can be anywhere from 1.4 atmospheres to over 6 atmospheres.
The high pressure and high oxygen concentration in the hyperbaric chamber allows oxygen to dissolve directly into the blood plasma. This helps higher concentrations of oxygen get to parts of the body that may not have the best circulation (non-healing wounds, crush injuries), give a boost of oxygen to parts of the body that need it (severe infections, delayed radiation injuries), or provide oxygen when the hemoglobin can't carry it (carbon monoxide poisoning, cyanide poisoning). The high pressure helps reduce the size of errant bubbles in the blood stream as well, which can treat the symptoms of air embolism and decompression sickness. The pressure is then gradually reduced to allow the bubbles to dissolve without severe pain.
Oxygen Toxicity:
In the episode, Mac and Riley require very high concentrations of oxygen in their blood in order to poison the nanites. Like any medical treatment, there are risks to hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Most of them have to do with air pockets in the body. These include barotrauma cause by bubbles under tooth fillings, in the sinus cavities, and the air in the inner ear which can expand and contract, causing pain. They can also include oxygen toxicity, which can be lung-related (burning pain, cough, difficulty breathing), or nervous system related (seizures).
In the episode, Mac suffers the latter type of complication when he has a seizure at 3.5 atmospheres. Seizures are a very rare complication (about 0.7 out of 10,000 treatments will result in a seizure), but oxygen toxicity does lower the seizure threshold. This means that for someone with a pre-existing seizure disorder or another reason they might have a seizure (low blood sugar, certain drugs, fever in children, etc...) they are more likely to have a seizure during a treatment.
Mac also was more likely to have oxygen toxicity than the typical person undergoing hyperbaric oxygen therapy. See, when a person is "at depth" in a chamber, they have a mask they can wear to give them room air (about 21% oxygen) at periodic intervals in order to prevent oxygen toxicity. Since the goal was to give Mac oxygen toxicity to kill the nanites, they likely forewent this precaution, which might have made it a lot more likely he would have had pulmonary complications or seizures.
The Bends:
Because he was in the chamber when he had the seizure, they decompress him and get him out of the chamber. It seems to take only seconds, even though they do hang a lantern on it by saying something to the effect of "we can't decompress him too quickly or he'll get the bends and then we'll never get him back!" (I'd quote it exactly but they took the episode off of Paramount+).
In reality, it would have taken at least an hour to adequately decompress him. If they needed to get him out as fast as they did, they'd need to re-compress him or he really would get the bends (though the bends is usually delayed by 15 minutes to 12 hours, so they'd have some time to get him back to depth). Here is a recommended re-compression table (18 MSW is the same as 1.8 atmospheres):
Has someone written that fic? Cause I need the fic where they have to break it to Mac that he has to go back into the chamber.
Anyway, this was a short one, but I hope you all learned something!
#macgyver#macgyver 2016#whump reference#writing reference#hyperbaric chambers#hyperbaric oxygen therapy#oxygen toxicity
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This is an expensive treatment. However if it works it needs to be provided to people who need it.
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oh shit! its taub!
#hes totally indistinguishable from the rest theres no way to know at this point#that he is about to become a permanent part of the cast#and its thirteen! and kutner!#<- i actually have seen pretty much none of kutner growing up#i know vaguely what Happens to him. definitely didnt know that he started a fire#in a hyperbaric chamber ahgfsfjd#aw the old guy is funny ahdfgbsjdf too bad he doesnt get hired..#OHHHH THATS why shes called thirteen...........#ASDBJHFSDF TAUB ANSWERING OSAMA.....#huh wait. he just made kutner go away? but he gets hired..#ahgfdsgdf he REALLY doesnt wanna leave. hes not 6 hes 9#LMAOOOO ok so hes 9 now hes allowed here
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i just saw the most beautiful act of love. gonna be sappy in the tags real quick :’)
#okay so some background: i work in a wellness center that has a good handful of medical services along with our other ones and one of the#medical services we offer is hyperbaric oxygen therapy?? <- in case you don't know what that is it's basically like a sleeping bag that we#zip you up in and give you a nasal canal with 90% oxygen and we pressurize the bag so it's similar to going up in an airplane. it's good fo#mental clarity and also for getting better sleep. like 1 hour in there is equivalent to 4 hours of REM sleep. super cool!!#also we use walkie-talkies to communicate with you since you're all sealed up in there and it takes like 10 minutes to pressurize up n down#however!! one of the other benefits is that it can help with symptoms of dementia. i've seen people with brain injuries come in before but#today was my first time seeing someone do it for dementia. and he brought his wife in with him for support#i just walked over and saw her sitting on the floor beside the chamber he was in and she was smiling and staring at him through the window#she was speaking into the walkie and laughing with him and i just. the idea of her wanting to be with him in these hard moments 🥺#she's now reading a book but still sitting right there on the ground beside him. my nurse offered her a chair but she's not leaving his sid#i just i can't y'all i love love.#chelsea speaks
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#chamber#hyperbaric oxygen chamber#summit#to#sea#therapy#weird#facebook marketplace#facebook#titan submersible#looks like
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My YT playlist goes through a more rigorous screening system than the TSA
#yes i say playlist singular cause i dont bother sorting them into genres / moods#lady this is my emotional support frankenstein abomination playlist that i chug everything i like into since i was like like 14 <3#i mainly listen to techno / trance / goth / metal anyway#but basically i add it to my likes first#listen to it a couple times let it settle in its new ecosystem etc.#then after its done cooking in the likes i have a final listen to see if i vibe with it#and if it does it will go through the special 'save to playlist' ceremony#otherwise i leave it to sit in the likes hyperbaric chamber or unlike it altogether#songs which forgo the like process are rare and special#also im a youtube2mp3 only type of guy i never use spotify .sorry#rant
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#hyperbaric oxygen chamber#hyperbaric chamber#hyperbaric oxygen therapy#musculoskeletal physiotherapy#oxygen therapy#brisbane hyperbaric clinic#musculoskeletal therapy
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) Recovery
Dealing with chronic symptoms after a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) can be frustrating. At Pacific Hyperbarics, we offer a breakthrough solution: hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). This innovative treatment enhances the brain’s healing process by increasing oxygen flow to damaged areas, helping patients reduce neurocognitive impairments like memory loss, fatigue, and poor concentration.
HBOT is non-invasive and has been proven to reduce inflammation, repair brain cells, and promote faster recovery. If you're suffering from long-term mTBI symptoms, HBOT at Pacific Hyperbarics might be the key to improving your cognitive health and getting back to a better quality of life.
Learn more: Pacific Hyperbarics
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apropos of lrb I have seen that "its not normal to triple-check your messages to make sure you're not sending porn you have OCD" post like four times from different people and. whats the point there. subclinical compulsive behavior is very common, yeah. are you expecting everyone to go on SSRIs about it, or
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5 Conditions Treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is a new and rapidly developing treatment modality that can stimulate or support many of the body's inherent healing processes. HBOT uses 100% oxygen under pressure within the body to enhance recovery and healing in several diseases. HBOT has proven to be an effective treatment for numerous illnesses and diseases, whether using a hyperbaric chamber for home or having this administered in a professional clinic. This treatment has significant benefits for a wide range of medical conditions, including chronic wounds, brain injuries, and sports recovery.
Here are the top 5 conditions that benefit from Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy:
1. Chronic Wounds
Diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, or refractory surgical site infections are rare but severe conditions that do not heal under standard multimodal treatment. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy has benefits of accelerating tissue repair since oxygenation is a key positive factor for healing. Of this, the increase in production of oxygen leads to the formation of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) and fastens the body’s healing mechanism. After undergoing HBOT treatment, patients claim to have reduced wound size and times of healing.
2. Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI)
Sports-related concurring, including concussion, affect a person’s cognition and general health even in the following days or weeks. Such therapies by use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy help in restoring the normal production of neurons, a function called Neuroplasticity besides helping in reducing the inflammation that usually occurs in the brain of patients diagnosed of ADHD. Literature has demonstrated that HBOT can yield a positive outcome when concerning symptoms such as memory deficits, attention, and other post-traumatic cognitive deficits after a TBI have been presented. Due to the noninvasive nature of the treatment with HBOT it becomes possible to consider applying this therapy for TBI patients and improve the outcomes of their recovery.
3. Sports Injuries and Muscle Recovery
Sporting activities as well as rigorous workouts usually lead to muscle tears, pulls, and strains. There has been a more popular application of HBOT in the management of various ailments as a result of it offering relief from muscle fatigue, a sound anti-inflammatory response and quicker recovery periods in sports medicine. With the enhancement of oxygen supply to muscle tissues, cells are repaired and generally the muscles are benefited from the treatment. Some athletes use HBOT to get back to training or competition faster if they over-trained or were injured while in competition.
4. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Carbon monoxide poisoning is an acute toxicosis, which arises from the inhalation of carbon monoxide and causes anoxia in the body. The HBO is a widely known and one of the most efficient treatments for the carbon monoxide poisoning. HBOT provides concentration of oxygen at a higher atmospheric pressure and thus makes way for other oxygen to bind the red blood cells after it has flushed out carbon monoxide. This treatment aids in replenishment of oxygen in the bloodstream and if given early can reduce the impacts of lasting harm to organs, the brain and heart in particular.
5. Radiation Injuries
This type of treatment, which is frequently applied in cancer treatment may cause tissue damage and radiation ulcers. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy contains a high potential or little element and can improve the rate of radiation injury healing greatly. Oxygen also enhances the rate of tissue remodeling, decreases inflammation and stimulates the generation of new healthy blood vessels. HBOT helps patients who had radiation injuries reduce their intensity of pain and make recoveries faster which enhances their experience and life chances following cancer treatments.
Advantages of a Portable hyperbaric chamber
People use a portable hyperbaric chamber when going for HBOT to ease the process or when taking it at home. These chambers provide comfort and possibility of independent pacing during the general practice of therapy which does not require a visit to a medical center. Although the portable chambers may not offer pressurization levels as medical clinics do, the users gain a lot of therapeutic value for health issues and muscle fatigue.
Understanding Hyperbaric Chamber Cost
The cost of hyperbaric oxygen therapy will depend on the type of chamber that is being used and the number of sessions that a patient will need to undertake as well as at which facility they will receive this therapy. Depending on the clinic, the price per session varies with a gallon of 100% oxygen averaging $150-250 per session being standard professional HBOT. There are portable hyperbaric chambers, and they are a much better option in terms of the amount of money that will be needed in the future. These chambers are often cheaper than other models and cost between $2,000 and $10,000, depending on the performance. A purchase of a portable hyperbaric chamber might be the way to go especially for those who will need the treatment frequently at home.
Conclusion
Hyperbaric oxygen chamber therapy is an effective method of treating many diseases with a wide range of effects from restoration of injured tissues to rehabilitation of brains. Whether one uses a clinic for hiring expert services or go to the local market and get a portable hyperbaric chamber for use at home, HBOT has been revealed to be among the most essential tools in the field of health and fitness. The cost may be different, but the therapeutic effects are possible; and this is why it is important to achieve the best result as soon as possible in order to return to healthy living as soon as possible.
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