Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Pain
Hyperbaric oxygen resolves chronic pain by reducing inflammation and enabling the delivery of nutrients to tissues, joints, and bones, augmenting the body’s natural healing process. The treatment involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber. This extra oxygen dissolves into the body's fluids and travels to areas of injury or illness, promoting pain relief for chronic pain.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for chronic pain has been shown to have multiple benefits for patients. It has been found to reduce inflammation and promote tissue healing, making it an effective chronic pain treatment.
Hyperbaric oxygen resolves chronic pain by reducing inflammation and enabling the delivery of nutrients to tissues, joints, and bones, augmenting the body’s natural healing process. The treatment involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber. This extra oxygen dissolves into the body's fluids and travels to areas of injury or illness, promoting pain relief for chronic pain.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for chronic pain has been shown to have multiple benefits for patients. It has been found to reduce inflammation and promote tissue healing, making it an effective chronic pain treatment.
How Hyperbarics Helps
Reduces Pain and Swelling
Helps Grow Stem Cells and Send Them Where They are Needed
Down-regulates Over 4,000 Inflammatory Genes
Up-regulates Growth Hormones
Builds New Neurons
Stimulates Collagen Production
Increases the Production of Synovial Fluid
Regrows New Blood Vessels and Improves Blood Flow
Stimulates Cellular Reproduction
Hyperbaric oxygen sessions resolve chronic pain in many body parts by augmenting the body’s natural healing powers.
Many of our patients comment that regardless of their original reason for coming in for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), they find themselves also surprisingly pain free. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy alleviates muscle pain, joint discomfort, and arthritis for many, reducing or eliminating their pain. In some cases, patients tell us this is the first time they have been pain-free in decades.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy supports natural healing, offering extended pain relief. Although not permanent, it helps decrease and sometimes eliminate pain for an extended period. Among these benefits, hyperbaric oxygen therapy down-regulates thousands of genes coded for inflammation, and up-regulates thousands of genes that stimulate growth, such as collagen growth. It also increases the production of stem cells, and mobilizes these stem cells to areas of the body that need them the most.
Thousands of people receive stem cell treatments yearly to help repair knees, backs and other body parts crucial in mundane movement. Naturally generated stem cells from hyperbaric oxygen therapy outperform injected stem cells in healing damaged body parts.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for chronic pain aids in healing various painful areas of the body by reducing swelling and down-regulating inflammatory genes. It also promotes blood vessel regrowth and stimulates cell reproduction, delivering increased oxygen and nutrients to tissues, joints, and bones. It heals infections, wounds, peripheral vascular disease, reduces pain, and addresses over-training, sports injuries, concussions, and traumatic brain injuries, among other conditions.
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What is Hyperbaric Medicine?
Hyperbaric medicine, also called hyperbaric oxygen therapy or HBOT, is a medical treatment where a patient sits or lies in a pressurized chamber and breathes 100% oxygen. In HBOT, oxygen dissolves into the blood, thus raising the oxygen concentration to very high levels. This increased oxygen is a primary building block for tissues, muscle, and bone repair. Among other benefits, it kicks off cell reproduction, heals injuries and infections more rapidly, and decreases inflammation.
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Does HBOT kill cancer cells?
Current research indicates that hyperbaric oxygen does not kill cancer cells. However, some early research indicates that hyperbaric oxygen might reduce the size of certain tumors. Also, there has been a study on mice using hyperbaric oxygen, along with a ketogenic diet, to reduce tumors. Hyperbaric oxygen causes many different healing modalities to kick into gear. Could its effect on strengthening the immune system inhibit the growth of cancer cells? Nobody knows. Over the past 50 years, numerous studies conclusively show that hyperbaric oxygen does not encourage cancer cells or tumors to grow. Some patients claim that hyperbaric oxygen makes them feel a lot more comfortable and functional after chemotherapy and also during healing. Note that some chemotherapy drugs are not to be used with hyperbaric oxygen, as the chemotherapy drugs can be enhanced and thus become toxic. A good hyperbaric oxygen facility (such as Bay Area Hyperbarics) will always call the chemotherapy manufacturer to ensure that hyperbaric oxygen therapy will be helpful and not damaging to the patient.
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What is the CPT code for HBOT?
The CPT code for HBOT is G0277.
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Does Medicare cover HBOT?
Medicare covers Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for approved conditions, and many insurance companies also cover approved conditions. If your condition is not approved by your insurance, we can discuss our special rates. Give us a call at (408) 356–7438. We are happy to discuss your options with you.
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Can HBOT help Neuropathy?
Hyperbaric treatments help heal neuropathy by regrowing small blood vessels and nerves that have died from disease, injuries from radiation and aging. Patients often experience numbness and or pain when they start treatment. Hyperbaric treatments most often bring back sensation and make, for example, walking easier and more enjoyable.
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Why would a physician consider HBOT?
A physician would consider using hyperbaric chamber therapy in a variety of situations. Physicians most typically refer patients to hyperbaric when the patient is not healing with traditional medical interventions, and Medicare approves hyperbaric chamber therapy for this condition. Some patients experience significant unresolved pain and unremitting disease states that the mechanisms of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in a hyperbaric chamber are known to affect, such as the downregulation of inflammatory genes. For example, some patients have experienced severe, unremitting hives with itching, which did not improve with any specialist interventions. Some physicians will consider hyperbaric chamber therapy if the patient has no other good avenues for improving their failing health, and they know the hyperbaric chamber therapy is safe and will not harm the patient.
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What is Hypebaric Oxygen Therapy?
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a medical treatment where you inhale 100% oxygen in a chamber with increased atmospheric pressure. HBOT injects 400x the oxygen into your tissues and bones and mobilizes stem cells. It regrows healthy tissues in the brain, blood vessels, skin and bones. It also reduces pain and swelling and speeds recovery. It is simple, effective and painless.