Allan M. Spiegel M.D. - RSD Therapy

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy ( RSD ) is a chronic pain disorder associated with sensitivity to light touch, swelling, skin color and temperature changes, weakness, a...

Medical research on the effectiveness of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the treatment of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. ...

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy is a disorder, which occurs following trauma to a nerve of the arm or leg. Researchers now believe that these symptoms occur because the...

I had a constant burning in my hands and several fingers were numb. My chest felt like I was having a heart attack. It was a very tight feeling. I went through all k...

Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy (HBOT) is a new therapy for many individuals with CRPS/RSD. Interestingly, however, this therapy is not new at all. According to Allan...

An estimated 20 million people in the United States are afflicted with diabetes, a metabolic disorder resulting in high blood sugar. Diabetes has tremendous negativ...

In Type 1 diabetes, the patient is not able produce enough insulin, usually from birth. The primary treatment for this type of diabetes is careful blood sugar monito...

High blood sugar destroys the body in a number of ways, including neuropathy (nerves), retinopathy (eyes), nephropathy (kidneys), and atherosclerotic (heart and bloo...

Of the estimated 20 million people in the United States with diabetes, 3 million struggle with what is known as Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy—and even patients wi...

Diabetic patients are at a greater risk for getting infections and have a more difficult time fighting them off. Three known reasons include: ...

Modern treatment of cancer often involves radiation therapy. While physicians are careful to minimize damage to healthy tissue, effective tumor destruction may resul...

Radiation treatment of the bladder can result in the death of tissue. Because of the effects of radiation treatment are not immediate, it may be difficult to diagno...

Physicians often determine that the most effective way to treat prostate cancer is with some form of radiation. This may involve directing an x-ray beam to destroy t...

Injury of the rectum and lower (sigmoid) intestine can result from radiation treatment of the rectum, cervix, uterus, prostate, urinary bladder, and testes. Although...

Often, effective treatment of cervical cancer may require radiation treatment as part of the strategy to totally destroy the malignancy before it has a chance to mig...

Traumatic injury can be the result of single or repeated impact, abrasion, tearing, cutting, damaging pressure (crushing), or thermal, radiation, or chemical burns. ...

Traumatic brain injury, the "signature injury" among wounded soldiers of the current military engagement in Afghanistan and Iraq, can cause major long-term disabilit...

Oxygen delivered under pressure, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), is one of the most powerful drugs known to man. HBOT delivers the substrate of life, oxygen, for w...

The drug effects of hyperbaric oxygen has been shown to improve tissue oxygenation, reduce inflamation and swelling, stimulate tissue growth, prevention of amputatio...

Stroke/cerebrovascular accident (CVA) refers to the loss of normal function of the brain tissue caused by impairments of circulation within the brain. When normal ci...

HBOT is the only known treatment that alters the course of Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis is the most common demyelinating disease of the central nervous sys...

Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness with a wide array of symptoms. Cases have been reported throughout the country but the disease is most prevalent in the Nor...

Severe, intractable and recurrent headaches can be incapacitating, fortunately, hyperbaric oxygen therapy can provide some relief. These headaches are frequently des...

This disability is a condition resulting from chronic brain damage, and emerges in different forms, ranging from severe to nearly normal. ...