Who Uses Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy?
Some common reasons people visit NUMA for hyperbaric oxygen therapy include:
- Healthy individuals seeking the physiological and therapeutic oxygen therapy
- Sports Performance and injury recovery enhancement
- Post-surgical recovery and wound healing
- Concussion and traumatic brain injury
- Sensorineural hearing loss
- Inflammatory bowel disease (such as Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis)
- Fibromyalgia / ME / Chronic Fatigue
- Stroke rehabilitation
- Lyme disease
- Interstitial Cystitis
- Individuals with chronic inflammatory conditions
- Delayed radiation injury (soft tissue and Bony Necrosis)
The worldwide range of applications
The European Committee for Hyperbaric Medicines (ECHM) 10th Consensus Conference on Hyperbaric Medicine agreed on revisions to their list of accepted indications for HBOT in April 2016, with the final report published in March 2017
The 13th editions of the US based Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society’s (UHMS) “Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Indications” (April 2014) defines the worldwide accepted 14 indications of HBOT:
- Air or Gas Embolism
- Carbon Monoxide poisoning
- Gas Gangrene
- Compartment Syndrome
- Crush Injury
- Other Traumatic Ischaemias
- Decompression Sickness (Bends)
- Arterial Insufficiencies
- Severe Anaemia
- Intracranial Abscess
- Necrotising Soft Tissue Infection
- Osteomyelitis (Refectory)
- Delayed Radiation Injury (Soft Tissue and Bony Necrosis)
- Compromised Grafts and Flaps
- Acute Thermal Burn Injury
- Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
In the UK, the NHS currently provides funding for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for the following conditions:
- Decompression illness
- Arterial Gas Embolism
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