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A Little Story about a Little Kid: Real Life Experiences

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

When Julian and Dora became new parents, they too expected their son Jaden to call them Mom and Dad. However, it has been a long wait for them, and they finally got to hear these magical words from Jaden after 6 long years, when they had almost given up the hope of it. And things are looking bright today, brighter than they have ever been, as Jaden sings to them their favorite song.

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Jaden was diagnosed with Autism at an early age of 14 months. Not only did Julian and Dora speak to every medical expert they could find, they spent hundreds of dollars on medicine and therapies all through the next four years. However, the results were negligible or totally absent. This did not put Dora off, even though they were finding it pretty difficult to manage the financial side of things.

Finally, Dora and Julian started to work in shifts. Dora would be working during the day, while Julian stayed home and looked after Jaden. At night Dora would be by Jaden’s side and Julian would be off to his new duty as a night guard. This way they would be spending very little time with each other, apart from one day a week. But they would have the cash flowing in and also someone to take care of Jaden all the time.

It was at this point that Julian got to participate in an event related to Autism and HBOT therapy in their vicinity. Both of them took it very seriously, and Dora too decided to attend a workshop on Autism and HBOT therapy. However, when they got to know about the cost of hyperbaric chambers and HBOT treatment, they realized that they would probably not be able to shell out the money they needed.

Luckily, they received support from the local church, and were able to purchase a personal hyperbaric chamber for Jaden. And the results were amazing!

Within a year Jaden showed positive signs that both Dora and Julian had never expected. Jaden developed eye contact, he became more social. He started to play with the toys that had been lying in the cupboard for years. He developed speech, and could walk straight! It was almost a wonder for the family.

Today Jaden can sing. He even helps Dora with shopping and other household work. “We never thought we would get to hear Mom and Dad from our precious son. But it happened at last. We can’t be thankful enough to the church for offering us with the funds to buy the hyperbaric chamber for Jaden. That had made all the difference!”

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Inside the HBOT Chamber

Thursday, November 4th, 2010


Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is being used in the treatment of autism, Cerebral Palsy etc.
It’s described as the use of oxygen at a higher than atmospheric pressure. This oxygen is said to stimulate the brain and help improve cognitive and social function in children with chronic brain injury.
Patients undergoing this type of therapy get into an enclosed HBOT chamber for numerous sessions.
Because clinics and hospital fees can run upwards of $100-$500 a session, many families are opting for at-home soft chambers.
The Vitaris 320 model retails for appx $20,000 and allows patients unlimited access to this type of therapy.

Source: www.cpdiscovery.com

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Denver Broncos QB Tim Tebow Uses Personal Hyperbaric Chambers To Stay Fit.

Sunday, September 12th, 2010
Tim Tebow Uses Personal Hyperbaric Chambers

Tim Tebow Uses Personal Hyperbaric Chambers

A growing number of sports stars are using hyperbaric chambers for personal use especially for healing from injuries in games. A sports injury can be especially devastating for a professional athlete. Professional athletes sidelined because of injury can lose their standing in national rankings or their place on a team, and they risk their careers when they attempt to return to play before sufficient healing has taken place. Because professional athletes have so much at stake, many have turned to mild and personal hyperbaric oxygen therapy to speed recovery when they suffer an injury.

David Baumann of BHSN reported in a recent article that Denver Broncos rookie quarterback Tim Tebow is now one of the dozens of NFL players who have hyperbaric chambers.

BHSN interviewed Bill Schindler, the owner of Hyperbaric Therapy Center in Cumming, GA, who said Tebow arranged a deal with Oxy Health, a hyperbalic chamber manufacturer in February, 2010 in order to take control of a personal chamber.  Schindler, who has sold over 190 hyperbaric chambers to NFL players, originally assisted Tebow in the installation of his Oxy Health chamber.  “Tebow, like any professional athlete, needs treatment for his body, ” said Shindler.

Mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy helps athletes at all skill levels heal quickly and get back to their favorite pursuit. Many sports injuries involve strains and sprains, which is quickly taken care of by personal hyperbaric chambers. Life-giving oxygen is able to reach the injury site so that cells can heal and the immune system can fully defend the body against harmful agents. Healing time is reduced significantly, and athletes get back into play faster.

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The Redskins recommend HBOT in hyperbaric chambers.

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

The Rochester Redskins are a non-profit organization in the city of Rochester, Michigan. Their organization exists to educate and instruct juvenile boys and girls in the sport of football and cheerleading. The Redskins guide boys and girls to improve their physical, mental, and moral well-being, and to develop a sense of fair play and good sportsmanship.

The players recommend HBOT treatments in personal hyperbaric chambers and added that the oxygen treatments speeds recovery from injuries and keep them feeling fresh – ” I get a little bounce to my step,” said Moss, who also believes the practice also helps prevent injury.

Santonio Holmes owns a hyperbaric chamber. So does Maurice Jones-Drew. Hines Ward told Pittsburgh reporters it was his “fountain of youth,” while Terrell Owens famously said his chamber helped speed his recovery from a broken leg. Zach Thomas and Patrick Kerney used their own chambers for years, while Channing Crowder bought one within the past 12 months.

Brian Cushing, last year’s AP defensive rookie of the year, is a well-publicized fan of the chambers. And Dwight Freeney’s hyperbaric chamber became a huge storyline last winter when he used it to help recover from a sprained ankle before the Super Bowl.

Yes, hyperbaric chambers are all over the NFL in 2010, and they’ve long-since reached Ashburn. Sure enough, Santana Moss acquired one of the chambers about a year ago, and through Moss’s contacts, DeAngelo Hall bought his within the past month.

The media were all over this story when Gilbert first discussed it, but the tents are apparently prosaic enough in the NFL that no one seems to have mentioned Moss’s chamber, which Malcolm Kelly also regularly uses. Moss started using the technique during his second NFL season at a New York hospital, and said he saw other patients achieve great results.

“There was a police officer, she was in a bad wreck where she was a vegetable almost, couldn’t move or nothing,” Moss said. “She would go in there when I used to go in there. After that first year, she was doing things they said she wouldn’t be able to do, just by going there.”

Source: voices.washingtonpost.com

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Tim Tebow Uses Hyperbaric Chambers As Part Of Body Recovery Treatment

Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Tim Tebow Uses HBOT Therapy To Keep Fit

Tim Tebow Uses HBOT Therapy To Keep Fit

Tim Tebow is known for his grueling workouts. He’s been featured on the cover Men’s Fitness and has been seen pushing large tires around like little toy cars.

At the SPARQ training event last weekend, Tebow explained what his workout is like at this point in the off season.

“Well I do a lot. It all starts with your diet, so I always eat a great breakfast because that’s giving your body fuel. I get into my first formal workout then after that I’ll get into weights, my speed work and then my strength training. After those it’s about recovering your body in hot tubs and cold tubs, and hyperbaric chambers. It’s about getting your body used to training and then also recovering.

I do a lot of squat jumps, box jumps, anything that builds explosiveness. It’s all about your quickness, your first step, and if you have that, you can compete.”

At 6′3” and 245 lbs, Tebow has the body of a tight end more than a QB. Yet, he scored the highest a QB has ever scored (96.92 out of 130.0) in the SPARQ rating system. That’s a better score than Reggie Bush.  He credits his fitness to the hard work he puts in and always wanting to compete with himself and others.

Coming to the Mile High City at 5,280 feet above sea level has added a new dimension to the Florida native’s workout. While it has taken some time to adjust, Tebow says this about the altitude:

”It’s different, but I love it because it’s just going to give us an edge.”

As a fan I love seeing opposing players hooked up to an oxygen mask at the beginning of the game after a long run. It gives me confidence that the Broncos will have the edge as the clock ticks down in a close game. Tebow seems to agree.

The sport is so much more than play calling and execution. The foundation of success is a player’s body, and it’s good to have a young QB who knows that his body is his temple.

Extract: Tim-Tebows-Training-Regimen at predominantlyorange.com

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) – A Brief Introduction.

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Let us first begin by knowing what exactly is hyperbaric oxygen treatment. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves inhaling 100% oxygen at greater than one atmosphere absolute (ATA) in a pressurized chamber. The air we breathe at sea level is defined as 1 ATA.

Many of the clinical uses of hyperbaric treatments conducted in fixed or portable hyperbaric chambers have been at pressures above 1.5 ATA. However, recently, some researchers have been using lower pressures of hyperbaric oxygen therapy with good results in some conditions. The abbreviation conventionally used for hyperbaric oxygen therapy is HBOT.

What actually happens in a portable hyperbaric chamber -

HBOT increases the amount of oxygen that is carried in the plasma. Typically, hemoglobin which circulates in the blood stream carries almost all of the oxygen in our body to tissues.

Only 0.3% of oxygen is dissolved in the plasma which is the fluid in our blood vessels not counting the red cells, white cells and platelets. Hemoglobin is normally 97% saturated or full of oxygen.

However, with HBOT, the amount of oxygen that is dissolved into the plasma can increase many fold. In fact, some animal studies have shown that hyperbaric oxygen treatment can keep an animal alive without circulating red blood cells. There is an old paper called “Life without blood” that studied this in a pig. Therefore, in conditions where hypoxia (or decreased amount of oxygen) is present, such as with decreased blood flow, we would expect HBOT to help overcome this problem.

Interestingly, HBOT causes vasoconstriction of blood vessels which actually causes decreased blood flow. However, because it increases the amount of oxygen in plasma so much, the overall result is increased oxygen delivery to tissue. Because it causes decreased blood flow, hyperbaric oxygen treatment decreases swelling, including swelling in the brain, after injury or ischemia.

One of the properties of HBOT that is rarely discussed is the anti-inflammatory effect of HBOT. Several animal studies have revealed that Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has potent anti-inflammatory tissue effects with equivalence to diclofenac 20 mg/kg noted in one study using HBOT at 2.4 ATA and 100% oxygen.

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment usually conducted in a a portable hyperbaric chamber has also been shown to decrease markers of inflammation including IL-1, IL-6 and TNF-á in humans. So we get decreased blood flow, increased oxygenation, decreased swelling and decreased inflammation, all from one treatment.

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Hyperbaric Chamber Therapy to cure Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

Monday, June 14th, 2010

There are certain signs and symptoms of autism in children which  a parent should be aware of and would know when to take the child to the HBOT center for correct diagnosis and start the hyperbaric chamber therapy in HBOT chambers.

Autism treatment in children should start when children with ASD demonstrate deficits in

1)      social interaction,

2)      verbal and nonverbal communication, and

3)      repetitive behaviors or interests.

In addition, they will often have unusual responses to sensory experiences, such as certain sounds or the way objects look. Each of these symptoms runs the gamut from mild to severe. They will present in each individual child differently. For instance, a child may have little trouble learning to read but exhibit extremely poor social interaction. Each child will display communication, social, and behavioral patterns that are individual but fit into the overall diagnosis of ASD.

Children with autism, requiring HBOT chamber treatment in good and established HBOT centers, do not follow the typical patterns of child development. In some children, hints of future problems may be apparent from birth. In most cases, the problems in communication and social skills become more noticeable as the child lags further behind other children the same age. Some other children start off well enough. Oftentimes between 12 and 36 months old, the differences in the way they react to people and other unusual behaviors become apparent. Some parents report the change as being sudden, and that their children start to reject people, act strangely, and lose language and social skills they had previously acquired. In other cases, there is a plateau, or leveling, of progress so that the difference between the child with autism and other children the same age becomes more noticeable.

Source – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) – As An Effective Treatment For Autism

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

Recently, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has increased in popularity as a treatment for autism. Numerous studies document oxidative stress and inflammation in individuals with autism; both of these conditions have demonstrated improvement with Hyperbaric therapy or HBOT, along with enhancement of neurological function and cognitive performance.

You might be familiar with hyperbaric oxygen treatment, in which a patient breathes in extra oxygen while inside a pressurized chamber, as a therapy for the bends and carbon monoxide poisoning. But while a small segment of families with autistic children believe it helps their kids, insurance generally doesn’t pay for it, and many doctors are skeptical that it does any good.

New research in today’s BMC Pediatrics may give the hyperbaric therapy more credibility as a treatment for autism. The randomized, double-blind controlled study of 62 children found that those who received 40 hours of hyperbaric treatment over a month were less irritable, more responsive when people spoke to them, made more eye contact and were more sociable than kids who didn’t receive it.

They were also less sensitive to noise (some autistic children experience a kind of sensory overload from loud sounds and background noise). The most improvement was observed in kids older than five (the study included children ages two to seven) who had milder autism.

In various hyperbaric treatment research and study, children with autism are treated with HBOT in hyperbaric chambers at atmospheric pressures and oxygen concentrations in current use for this condition. Changes in markers of oxidative stress and inflammation are measured. The children are evaluated to determine clinical effects and safety.

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Portable Hyperbaric Chamber or HBOT equipment

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Vitaeris 320 - Oxyhealth's Personal Hyperbaric Chambers

Vitaeris 320 - Oxyhealth's Personal Hyperbaric Chambers

Portable hyperbaric chambers are showing up in spas and alternative health clinics across the country. You can even go for a rental hyperbaric chamber or buy one for home use and climb into your pressurized haven as often as you like.

There are portable hyperbaric oxygen  chambers, which are used for home treatment. These are usually referred to as “mild hyperbaric chamber“, which is a reference to the lower pressure of soft-sided chambers. Those commercially available in the USA go up to 4.1 PSI which is equivalent to a water depth of 11 ft. These hyperbaric chambers are operated with oxygen concentrators or with 100% oxygen as the breathing gas.

Portable Hyperbaric Chambers – The Origin :

These portable hyperbaric chambers were originally developed and used for altitude sickness. The benefits of such hyperbaric chamber to a number of other off label conditions such as autism, lyme disease, cancer, stroke, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, cardiac conditions, brain injury, and other immunodeficiency disorders do have research and case studies to substantiated the effectiveness.

Recent studies have also shown that hyperbaric at a lower pressure for a period of 6 months or more is more effective for most conditions as the mild hyperbaric oxygen  chambers have an immune modulating effect and hyperbaric at a higher pressure has a tendency to be immune suppressive over time.

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Hyperbaric Chamber May Treat Traumatic Brain Injury

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

The study, conducted by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury in Virginia, and the Army Research and Materiel Command in Maryland, is expected to run for at least 18 months. It will include about 300 participants, mostly soldiers and Marines, and will build upon other ongoing studies on TBI treatment, said Col. Richard Ricciardi, director of the research evaluation and quality assurance and surveillance directorate at Defense Centers of Excellence.

TREATMENT: Pentagon focuses on traumatic brain injury

Individuals getting the experimental treatment will breathe 100% oxygen while inside the hyperbaric chamber at 1.35 atmospheres of pressure — about the same amount of pressure you would feel if you dived 20 to 25 feet below water. The theory is that the pressure created by the HBOT chamber causes oxygen in the blood to dissolve, allowing more oxygen to flow through the body and repair damaged tissue.

A control group will feel a similar amount of pressure inside the chamber, but will breathe regular air, which will dissolve at the regular rate, he said.

The hyperbaric chambers will hold three to 16 participants. Each person will be asked to sit in the HBOT chamber for one hour a day, five days a week for 40 sessions. The study is primarily looking at service members who suffered a TBI about four to six months ago, and are going through the healing process, he said.

Soldiers interested in participating in the study should talk to their health care provider to see if there are clinical trials available in their area and whether they are a candidate for those trials.

Five sites will participate in the study: Fort Carson, Colo.; Camp Pendleton, Calif.; Camp Lejeune, N.C.; Brooks City-Base, Texas; and possibly Fort Hood, Texas, although negotiations are still ongoing there, Ricciardi said.

Source: USA Today Military News

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