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[pacifichyperbarics]

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.

[superm4ks]

mama a girl devoured

[malpractisnt]

Hyperbaric House MD

okay but what if House and the ducklings got locked inside a patient's hyperbaric chamber during an inspection. House spends the entire time messing with the oxygen levels to see if it’ll affect their thinking, while Cameron tries to stay calm, Chase starts hallucinating and Foreman is silently fuming. Meanwhile, Wilson is on the other side, desperately trying to get them out. He’s frantically running around, trying to figure out how to unlock the chamber, yelling at security to hurry up, shouting through the intercom for House to do something, but House only smirks and says, “You know, Wilson, this is all your fault.”

alternatively:

House alone, gets locked inside a patient’s hyperbaric chamber during an inspection. The team is on the other side, helpless. He starts messing with the oxygen levels, trying to see if it’ll affect his own thinking, because why not, right?

Meanwhile, the team on the outside is panicking. Wilson’s yelling through the intercom, telling House to stop messing with the oxygen, but House is too busy making snarky comments about how he can’t breathe (but still somehow manages to mock Wilson). Chase is losing it, wondering if they should call the fire department, and Foreman’s just standing there, rolling his eyes, muttering about how this is the stupidest thing House has ever done.

Naturally, House would take the opportunity to drop a dark Holocaust comment as well. He'd be having the time of his life, mostly because he’s too stubborn to admit he’s actually starting to feel lightheaded. He mocks the team’s attempts to help him.

[liesmyth]

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

[to-proudly-go]

Like puzzle pieces

(We used to fit so well)

Drew for this thread give it a read 🥹

[macgyvermedical]

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!

[willowreader]

This is an expensive treatment. However if it works it needs to be provided to people who need it.

[lokh]

oh shit! its taub!

[chelseasdagger]

i just saw the most beautiful act of love. gonna be sappy in the tags real quick :’)

[fbmarketplaceoddities]

[hierophant-green]

My YT playlist goes through a more rigorous screening system than the TSA

[pacifichyperbarics]

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

[qwuilleran]

this is why diamonds are a girl's best friend

Think of it like sous vide with oxygen, where the goal is to infuse your internal tissues with high oxygen concentration. It's cool that this theory is far enough along in the testing that they're doing it on humans, but the study I found shows little difference between 30days and 60days, so 93 is just to break the previous record of 73 days at depth, and a marketing scheme to squeeze as much money out of you as possible. Here's the scientific paper from 2020:

Ok

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