Healing Fibromyalgia with Hyperbaric Oxygen
Most fibromyalgia patients have brain lesions that show up in scans. Hyperbarics has been proven to heal these lesions, improving brain function, decreasing fatigue, and greatly reducing pain.
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Most fibromyalgia patients have brain lesions that show up in scans. Hyperbarics has been proven to heal these lesions, improving brain function, decreasing fatigue, and greatly reducing pain.
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How Hyperbarics Helps Fibromyalgia Treatment
Reduces Pain
Heals Brain Lesions and Fissures
Decreases Psychological Distress
Stimulate Neuroplasticity and Rectifies Abnormal Brain Activity in Pain-Related Areas of FMS Patients
Decreases FMS Symptoms
Improves Quality of Life Indices for FMS Patients
Decreases Anxiety
Hyperbaric treatment for fibromyalgia heals lesions, improving brain function and greatly reducing pain
Fibromyalgia is a painful and devastating disease. It causes damage to the lives of the person suffering with the disease as well as suffering for their families. The pain, weakness, fatigue, sleep problems and brain impairments are crippling. Many fibromyalgia patients have lesions in their brains that show up on brain scans. In December 2018, a study of fibromyalgia patients showed that hyperbaric oxygen therapy heals these lesions, leading patient brain function to improve dramatically.
Patients’ brain scans were taken prior to hyperbaric oxygen treatments (HBOT), then again after 60 hyperbaric oxygen treatments, using two types of brain imaging. The study showed there was often a reduction in, and in some cases the complete resolution of, the lesions found in patients with fibromyalgia. The researchers found that 70% of the patients in the study also showed dramatic improvement in their symptoms. In fact, many of the patients no longer met the medical criteria of fibromyalgia. In addition, these patients’ brain functions improved dramatically, and their brain imaging showed significant improvement. This study gives hope to those of us who have, or who know someone who has fibromyalgia!
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Research Studies
Front Psychol. 2018 Dec 1, Hadanny A, et al
HBOT can Induce Neuroplasticity and Significant Clinical Improvement - Randomized Controlled Trial.
Learn how Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Can help Patients Suffering From Fibromyalgia and with a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Front Psychol. 2018 Dec 1, Hadanny A, et al
HBOT can Induce Neuroplasticity and Significant Clinical Improvement - Randomized Controlled Trial.
Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) is a persistent and debilitating disorder estimated to impair the quality of life of 2-4% of the population, with a 9:1 female to male incidence ratio. The defining symptoms of FMS include chronic widespread pain, intense pain in response to tactile pressure, prolonged muscle spasms, weakness in the limbs, nerve pain, muscle twitching and extreme fatigue.
PlosOne, May, 2015, Shai Efrati, et al
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Can Diminish Fibromyalgia Syndrome – Prospective Clinical Trial
This study provides evidence that HBOT can improve quality of life and well being of many FMS patients.
PlosOne, May, 2015, Shai Efrati, et al
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Can Diminish Fibromyalgia Syndrome – Prospective Clinical Trial
The study provides evidence that HBOT can improve the symptoms and life quality of FMS patients. Moreover, it shows that HBOT can induce neuroplasticity and significantly rectify abnormal brain activity in pain related areas of FMS patients.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology, Feb, 2019
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment of fibromyalgia: a prospective observational clinical study
These findings support the view that HBOT is an effective, rapid and safe means of treating various symptoms of FM.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology, Feb, 2019
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment of fibromyalgia: a prospective observational clinical study
Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), a condition considered to represent a prototype of central sensitization syndrome, can be induced by different triggers including childhood sexual abuse (CSA). Current treatment options are only partially effective, but hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) seems to be capable of relieving some of the symptoms. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of HBOT after fewer sessions than generally used, chosen on the basis of pre-clinical and clinical data showing its rapid and sustained antinociceptive effect.
Patient Experiences
Listen to what real patients have to say about their experiences.
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Brandi, 27
After losing work and relationships due to fibromyalgia, hyperbarics gave her life back.
An articulate 27 year-old woman, Brandi experienced extreme fatigue, generalized nerve pain through her body, and neurocognitive challenges. It took two years for her physicians to diagnose her condition as fibromyalgia. Sadly, her illness became so acute that she could no longer maintain a regular work schedule. As a result, she had to move in with her parents. Fortunately, Brandi found Bay Area Hyperbarics. Though treatments took time to improve her health, she stuck with it. After 40 treatments, her fatigue, her ability to sleep a whole night through, her sensitivity to touch and her ability to concentrate improved significantly. By the time she finished, she was able to return to work, had restarted her social life, and was pursuing a new romantic interest.
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Priya, 38
Hyperbarics treated her Fibromyalgia and eliminated migraine headaches
As a mother of two, Priya loved playing with her kids. She had ongoing migraine headaches as well as Fibromyalgia. Fortunately, hyperbarics helped eliminate the migraine headaches, and healed the nerve pain, fatigue and brain fog that accompanied her fibromyalgia. After treatment, she was again able to play with her kids.
Patients: Start with Hyperbarics
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Give Us A Call
Did a physician refer you? If so, they can download and fax us back a patient referral form. If not, our medical staff will discuss whether hyperbaric suits you.
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We Talk With Your Insurance
Our medical staff contacts Medicare or private insurance to receive authorization and create a plan with you.
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You Get On the Road to Recovery
We do a medical intake, explain everything you need to know, and get started on your hyperbaric oxygen anti-aging therapy sessions.
Physicians: Refer a Patient
Refer a patient in three easy steps.
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You Submit Your Patient’s Information
As a provider, your office fills out and faxes back the Patient Referral Form. Have questions? Call us!
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We Get Authorizations
We ensure the patient understands the treatment and follows the prescribed protocol to get the patient on the road to recovery!
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Patient Starts HBOT
Our medical staff meets with the patient to ensure that HBOT treatment is appropriate and contacts Medicare or private insurance to receive authorization.
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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 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 infection 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, there has been a small amount of research indicating 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. There are numerous studies conclusively showing that hyperbaric oxygen does not encourage cancer cells or tumors to grow. Some patients claim the 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 under a variety of situations. Physicians most typically refer patients to hyperbarics when the patient is not healing with traditional medical interventions and hyperbaric chamber therapy is approved by Medicare 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 down regulation of inflamatory genes. For an example, some patients have experienced severe, unremitting hives with itching, which did not improve with any specialists 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) Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HB0T) 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.