-Label” Indications Oxygen Saturation CRPS / RSD
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Hyperbaric Healing Institute, Inc. 10015 N Ambassador Drive, Suite 104 Kansas City, Missouri 64153 (816) 801-7878 Web: www.OxygenUnderPressure.com Email: [email protected] Hyperbaric Healing Institute is dedicated to providing safe and effective Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT). Our Institute focuses on indications in the areas of neurological, cancer, orthopedic, surgery recovery, sports injuries, and trauma. We are the Midwest’s largest freestanding outpatient provider of HBOT. Our patients undergo treatment in a spacious 10-person, walk-in, wheelchair accessible, multi-place chamber. HBOT is based on the administration of 100% pure oxygen at higher than normal atmospheric pressure. Medicare Reimbursed 1. Air or Gas Embolism 2. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning 3. Gas Gangrene 4. Crush Injury, Compartment Syndrome 5. Decompression Sickness 6. Arterial Insufficiencies (Retinal, Problem Wounds) 7. Severe Anemia 8. Intracranial Abscess 9. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections 10. Osteomyelitis (Refractory) 11. Delayed Radiation Injury 12. Compromised Grafts and Flaps 13. Acute Thermal Burn 14. Idiopathic Sudden Hearing Loss “Off-Label” Indications Cerebral Palsy Sports Injuries Stroke Spinal Cord Injury TBI & Head Injury Autism Fracture Healing Lyme Disease Bone Grafting Concussion Near Drowning Multiple Sclerosis Parkinson’s Disease Surgery Recovery CRPS / RSD Excerpt from IHMA position statement: The International Hyperbaric Medical Association (IHMA) supports the use of hyperbaric oxygen (under prescription and oversight by a physician) for any indication where a physician finds that the condition is related to a hypoxic event or other conditions where the underlying pathophysiology will benefit from saturating the patient's tissues with oxygen under pressure. The core and essence of the conventional practice of medicine has been a physician's creative use of medications, devices, and therapies that in the best knowledge of that physician has the possibility of treating a patient's condition. In the 1950's this long-standing international tradition was renamed "the off-label" practice of medicine in the U.S. (only). The IHMA supports, defends, promotes, and encourages the off-label practice of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Before HBOT After HBOT Oxygen Saturation
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Hyperbaric Healing Institute, Inc. 10015 N Ambassador Drive, Suite 104
Kansas City, Missouri 64153 (816) 801-7878 Web: www.OxygenUnderPressure.com
Email: [email protected]
Hyperbaric Healing Institute is dedicated to providing safe and effective Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT). Our Institute focuses on indications in the areas of neurological, cancer, orthopedic, surgery recovery, sports injuries, and trauma. We are the Midwest’s largest freestanding outpatient provider of HBOT. Our patients undergo treatment in a spacious 10-person, walk-in, wheelchair accessible, multi-place chamber.
HBOT is based on the administration of 100% pure oxygen at higher than normal atmospheric pressure.
Medicare Reimbursed 1. Air or Gas Embolism 2. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning 3. Gas Gangrene 4. Crush Injury, Compartment
Syndrome 5. Decompression Sickness 6. Arterial Insufficiencies (Retinal, Problem Wounds) 7. Severe Anemia 8. Intracranial Abscess 9. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections 10. Osteomyelitis (Refractory) 11. Delayed Radiation Injury 12. Compromised Grafts and Flaps 13. Acute Thermal Burn 14. Idiopathic Sudden Hearing Loss
“Off-Label” Indications
Cerebral Palsy Sports Injuries Stroke
Spinal Cord Injury TBI & Head Injury Autism
Fracture Healing Lyme Disease Bone Grafting
Concussion Near Drowning Multiple Sclerosis
Parkinson’s Disease Surgery Recovery CRPS / RSD
Excerpt from IHMA position statement: The International Hyperbaric Medical Association (IHMA) supports the use of hyperbaric oxygen (under prescription and oversight by a physician) for any indication where a physician finds that the condition is related to a hypoxic event or other conditions where the underlying pathophysiology will benefit from saturating the patient's tissues with oxygen under pressure.
The core and essence of the conventional practice of medicine has been a physician's creative use of medications, devices, and therapies that in the best knowledge of that physician has the possibility of treating a patient's condition. In the 1950's this long-standing international tradition was renamed "the off-label" practice of medicine in the U.S. (only). The IHMA supports, defends, promotes, and encourages the off-label practice of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.
Before HBOT After HBOT
Oxygen Saturation
Hyperbaric Healing Institute, Inc.
(816) 801-7878 Web: www.OxygenUnderPressure.com
Email: [email protected]
Hypoxia and ischemia are both involved in the pathophysiology of many disorders of the body, including the nervous system, and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) plays an important role in its treatment. Oxygen is vital for proper function and an oxygen deficiency starts a vicious cycle of pathological changes in body tissues. The purpose of using HBOT in conditions such as CRPS, is to supply the body with abundant oxygen and to interrupt this vicious cycle of events. However, there are other mechanisms that are effective with the usage of HBOT, and these positive effects can persist long after the conclusion of HBOT.
COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME can involve physical and neurological (CNS) components. Physically, HBOT addresses the oxygen deprivation, typically due to swelling or tissue damage associated with CRPS. The result of HBOT is improved circulation and decreased swelling. Neurologically, it’s believed areas of the brain that address pain, are now being interpreted by malfunctioning areas of the peripheral and central nervous systems. It is believed that the response by the affected nervous system is what increases perceived pain, even when physical symptoms have improved. Additionally, this can explain why patients identify pain as ascending, descending or transferring to the opposite side of the body, from the original site of pain. The result of HBOT is normalization of brain metabolism / CNS.
Known Benefits
Reduces swelling/edema
Decreases inflammation
Induces angiogenesis
Increases stem cell proliferation
Limits the damage of reperfusion injury
Provides a vasoconstrictive effect
Improves cerebral ischemia
HBOT as a Therapy in the Treatment of Complex Regional
Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
HBOT and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
Brain Blood Flow Cortical views from the front, back, right, left, inferior, and superior aspects show effects of 1 HBOT (top row) and 40 HBO Treatments (bottom row) at a significance level of p < 0.001. Significant increases are shown in red.
