Allan M. Spiegel M.D. - RSD Therapy

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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is the intermittent use of 100 percent oxygen under increased pressure to treat a wide range of medical conditions. The increased pressure is achieved by use of either a mono-place hyperbaric oxygen chamber, which is usually pressurized with 100 percent oxygen, or a multi-place hyperbaric oxygen chamber for two to twelve patients, which is compressed with air. In the multi-place HBOT chamber, the patient breathes the 100 percent oxygen through a mask or hood. The mono-place HBOT chamber has the advantage that there is surface oxygenation of non-healed incisions and ulcers in addition to the oxygen pushed into the fluids of the body with HBOT. It is the saturation of body fluids with oxygen during HBOT that delivers the majority of oxygen to ischemic areas.

How Does Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Promote Healing?

Oxygen is one of the most useful and powerful agents available to the modern medical practitioner today. The therapeutic use of oxygen under pressure is known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been used to assist wound healing for almost 50 years.

Diabetic circulatory disorders prevent the body from getting adequate levels of oxygen to support wound healing.

HBOT has several specific biological actions:

1. Oxygen used under pressure can assist wound healing.
2. It can be used successfully in oxygen or blood supply deficient diabetic wounds, ulcers, grafts, and soft tissue and bone infection.
3. It combats clinical infection such as gas gangrene by enhancing the effectiveness of the white blood cell activity and the effects of antibiotics.
4. It acts in numerous ways that affect the wound:

• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy forces oxygen into oxygen-starved tissues
• It reduces swelling and inflammation
• It increases the growth of new blood vessels
• It improves white blood cell function
• It provides antibacterial effects

To help you discover what Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can do for you, for a limited time, Dr. Spiegel will provide a free assessment to determine if you would benefit from this treatment. To schedule a hyperbaric oxygen therapy consultation to discuss how this treatment can help you, give our office a call.