What are the Benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen (HB02) Therapy?

Complications from chronic conditions, non-healing wounds, radiation damage, trauma, infections, and other injuries take their toll on quality of life.  HyOx Medical Treatment Center works to restore health and function by administering hyperbaric oxygen therapy, an evidence-based adjunctive therapy that helps advance healing in these complications. Clinical services, including hyperbaric medicine, hyperbaric patient wound care, physical therapy, and dive physicals, are delivered with compassionate care and expertise at our clinically accredited NW Atlanta (Marietta) treatment center.

Our board-certified physicians prescribe life’s key ingredient — 100 percent oxygen (O2) — as a drug with time and pressure limits in Georgia’s largest pressurized multi-patient hyperbaric chamber for conditions approved by Medicare and most other insurances including Workers’ Compensation.

Healing Benefits of Hyperbaric Medicine

  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy helps heal wounds by increasing the body’s oxygen content by up to 1,500 percent.

  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy helps prevent reperfusion injury when blood supply returns to a damaged area of the body from trauma.

  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy helps resolve infection in bones and tissues.

  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy helps create new pathways for oxygen and stimulates collagen production.

How does hyperbaric oxygen therapy help heal wounds?

By delivering oxygen-rich plasma to tissue starved for oxygen. Damaged blood vessels from wound injuries leak fluid that cause tissue edema or swelling. Swelling cuts off oxygen supply to damaged cells starting the process of tissue death. By supersaturating the body with oxygen at high pressure (up to 2.4 ATM in a real, medicinal hyperbaric chamber, not a bag), hyperbaric oxygen therapy reduces swelling and feeds the oxygen-deprived tissues by increasing the body’s oxygen content by up to 1,500 percent. The higher pressure in the chamber increases the amount of oxygen in the blood giving life to the cells and promoting healing.

How does hyperbaric oxygen therapy prevent "reperfusion injury" from trauma/injuries?

By empowering the body’s oxygen radical scavengers to repair the injured blood vessels and allow healing from trauma to continue. When the blood supply returns to the tissues after they have been deprived of oxygen severe tissue damage, or reperfusion injury, may occur. When blood flow is interrupted by a crush injury, for instance, a series of events inside the damaged cells leads to the release of harmful oxygen radicals. These molecules can cause irreversible tissue damage. The injured blood vessels don’t allow blood to flow starving tissue and cells of oxygen. Breathing in 100 percent oxygen under pressure empowers the body’s oxygen radical scavengers to repair the injured vessels and allows healing from trauma to continue.

How does hyperbaric oxygen therapy help disable and kill harmful bacteria and strengthen a weakened immune system from infection?

By supersaturating the body’s tissues to help them build resistance against infection by disabling toxins of certain bacteria. It also improves the efficacy of certain antibiotics and the ability of white blood cells to find and destroy invaders that damage and block blood vessels and encourage infection growth.

How does hyperbaric oxygen therapy enable new blood vessels, collagen, and skin cells to grow and reproduce?

By transporting oxygen-rich plasma to the compromised wound site, a vital part of the wound-healing process. This process begins when new blood vessels grow (angiogenesis) because of 100 percent oxygen under pressure gets into the plasma through osmosis. These new pathways allow oxygen to flow to hypoxic and ischemic areas of the body to help facilitate all the processes for wound healing. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy also stimulates cells to produce certain substances needed for healing, like vascular endothelial growth factor, a protein that stimulates endothelial cells to revive vascular health. It works to restore blood supply to oxygen-deprived cells and tissues due to poor circulation from complications from cancer, infection, trauma, or wounds.

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