I’m excited to announce that we now have a hyperbaric oxygen chamber at Apollo Health Clinic in the Whitefish, Montana clinic location as of April 2021!
It is imperative that this therapy is done in a manner that is backed by the latest research for treatment efficacy. Many clinics are not having consistent results that allow patients to get the most benefit due to shortened session times and inconsistent treatment frequency. Successful results typically require 2-4 treatments per week with each treatment 60 minutes in duration for the first 20 treatments which are followed by a mid-way evaluation.The remaining 20 treatments for the 40 total treatments is completed with a comprehensive re-evaluation of treatment progress.
At Apollo Health Clinic, we follow the latest research for your complete therapeutic success!
Please call us today to inquire about seeing if you qualify for this amazing therapy!
HBOT Contraindications:
- Pacemaker
- Severe Incontinence
- Severe Claustrophobia
- People unable to fly in an airplane without oxygen are not able to do HBOT.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (aka – HBOT) has shown in the recent research to help people recover from the below medical conditions with impressive success rates!
- Head Injuries: recent & past Concussions & Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs)
- Migraine Headaches
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Huntington’s Disease
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- Pre-Stroke Prevention and Post- Stroke Recovery
- Diabetic Neuropathy
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Cancer: as a conjunctive therapy.
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Anti-Aging
- Osteoarthritis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Crohn’s Disease
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Atherosclerosis
- Diabetes – Type 1 & 2
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), aka – Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)
- Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ)
- Inflammatory Pain
- Chronic Infections (Lyme, Reactivated Mono, Mold, etc.)
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Any Mitochondrial Disease
Other physiologic health benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT):
- Improves overall Mitochondrial Function & cellular energy production
- Improves the health & function of bones stem cells
- Improves Nitric Oxide & blood flow to all organs & tissues
- Neurological Benefits:
- Reduces Cerebral Edema
- Decreases Intracranial Pressure
- Reduces Blood-Barrier Breakdown
- Minimizes Oxidative Stress
- Stimulates Angiogenesis in the brain
- Improves Cerebral oxygenation
- Enhances Memory and Mental Performance
- Facilitates Neuroplasticity*
- Promotes Proliferation & Mobilization of Neural Stem Cells
- Heart Health Benefits
- Ameliorates Atherosclerosis
- Combats & Prevents Circulatory Diseases including Diabetes
- Stimulates generation of ATP (cellular energy)
- Decreases Risk of Infections
- Reduces Stress & Anxiety
- Supports the Immune System
- Stimulates Neurogenesis
- Improves Memory & Reaction Time
- Improves Oxygenation of Heart Tissue
- Reduces Risk of Heart Attack
- Improves Heart Muscle Functioning Following a Heart Attack
- Eye Health Benefits:
- Helps Combat Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Ameliorates Diabetic Retinopathy
- Reduces Central Retinal Artery Occlusion
- Attenuates Glaucoma Symptoms
- Accelerates Healing
- Reduces Inflammation & Pain
- Improves Physical Stamina
- Skin Health Benefits:
- Reduces Excessive Skin Damages (Ultraviolet-A Radiation Apoptosis)
- Maintains Skin Elasticity
- Stimulates Epithelialization & Reduces Scar Formation
- Cancer Benefits:
- Reduces Tumor Hypoxia: better radiation therapy results, improves chemo outcomes, enhances brain treatments.
- Decreases Tumor Drug Resistance
- Allows for optimal therapy dosage to be attained
- Increases post-op Fibroblast activation
- Reduces Radiation Therapy Side Effects
- Decreases Chemotherapy Side Effects
- Accelerates Post-Operative Healing & Prevents Infection
- Reduces Chemo-Brain Syndrome Symptoms
- Increases IV Vitamin C Therapy Effect for Cancer Patients
- Enhances Chemotherapy Uptake
- Weakens Hypoxic Tumors
- Targets Metastatic Tumors
- Increases Oxy-Radical Production
- Amplifies Apoptosis Effect
- Regresses Tumor volume
- Decreases Inflammatory Markers
- Normalizes Intracellular Oxygen Levels
- Stimulates Cellular Detoxification
- Reduces Risk of Pathogenic Inflammatory-Related Tumors
- Supports Cellular Energy Processes for Optimal DNA Repair
- Sugar Metabolism & Diabetes Benefits:
- Improves Fasting Blood Sugar levels, Hemoglobin A1c levels & Lipid Profiles
- Diabetics & prediabetics: Increases pancreatic islets of Langerhans, improves insulin sensitivity, & increases skeletal muscle reception of glucose.
- Promotes Long-Term Blood Pressure Control
- Attenuates Metabolic Syndrome (insulin resistance)
- Reduces Risk of Sudden Heart attack due to Ventricular Arrhythmias
- Improves brain function & reduces risk of stroke
- Enhances heart function
- Decreases Risk of Diabetic Neuropathy
- Minimizes Risk of Diabetic Neuropathy
- Combats Cellulitis in Diabetics
- Promotes Closure of Non-Healing Wounds
- Ameliorates Ulcerations
- Reduces Risk of Amputations in Diabetics with foot ulcers.
- Accelerates Sports Injury Recovery by:
- Increases Collagen Production
- Reduces Inflammation & Pain
- Faster & Better Recovery from Sprains, Tears & Bone Fractures
- Stimulates Angiogenesis
- Enhances Recovery from Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL) & ANterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injuries
- Stimulates Angiogenesis
- Decreases Susceptibility towards re-injuring target areas
- Rapid recovery from Concussions & Head Injuries
- Improves SPECT imaging result
- Faster recovery from Surgeries with HBOT:
- increases fibroblast activation
- Reduces inflammation for optimal re-op conditions
- Reduces risk of infection
- Stimulates stem cell proliferation
- Decreases hospital time
- Accelerates healing from acute muscle strain
- Improves blood flow
- Proliferates the production of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)
- Improves concentration
- Increases Serotonin levels
- Accelerates Jet Lag Recovery
- Decreases Lactic Acid
- Plastic Surgery physiological benefits:
- Quicker healing
- Less scarring, bruising, & infection.
- enhances healing & recovery:
- Reduces Inflammation
- Minimizes Pain & Discomfort
- Reduces Swelling
- Plastic Surgery: Supports Healing at the Cellular Level
- Promotes Anti-inflammatory proteins
- Improves Angiogenesis enhancing blood flow to tissue
- Promotes Fibroblast activation
- Enhances collagen production
- Stimulates neovascularization & vasodilation
- Stimulates bone remodeling
- Plastic Surgery: reduces risk of infection
- Elvates phagocytosis to above normal levels
- Enhances microbial activity
- Increases intracellular leukocytes
- Stroke Prevention Benefits:
- Stimulates angiogenesis
- Ameliorates Atherosclerosis
- Decreases oxidative stress in the brain
- Preconditions the Brian to enable neuroprotective properties
- Post-Stroke Recovery Benefits
- Faster overall recovery
- Improves vision & speech
- Reduces Paralysis
- Accelerates Gross & Fine Motor Skills recovery
- Increases penumbra tissue recovery
- Stimulates angiogenesis for faster recovery
- Promotes Neurogenesis
- Enhances Stem Cell Proliferation & Mobilization
- Escalates Neuroplasticity
- Alleviates Spasticity
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Recovery Benefits
- Attenuates the Effects of Hypoxia and Inflammation in the Brain
- Promotes Neurogeneis
- Moderates Mitochondrial Disorders
- Enhances Stem Cell Mobilization & Proliferation
- Stimulates Neuroplasticity
- Induces Remyelination
- Augments Concussion Recovery
- Advances Cognitive Functions
- Improves gross & fine motor function skills
- Enhances speech & language brain function centers
- Lessens frequency of Seizures
- Stimulates better eye contact
- Improves balance & walking
- Supports Anti-Inflammatory Process at the Cellular Level with HBOT:
- Decreases acute & chronic inflammation
- Minimizes pain & discomfort
- Decreases anti-inflammatory cytokines
- Reduces swelling
- Induces fibroblast activation
- Reduces neuroinflammation
- Ameliorates autism symptoms
- Reduces the risks of Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Disease
- Decreases Gastrointestinal inflammation
- Remediates inflammatory bowel disease
- Ameliorates Ulcerative Colitis
- Improves Nutritional Absorption
- Relieves soft tissue & joint inflammation
- Ameliorates tendonitis
- Accelerates recovery from sports-related & high impact injuries
- Prevents the start of chronic inflammatory
- Attenuates cancer risk & progression
- Reduces Risk of Atherosclerosis, Heart Attack & Stroke
- Ameliorates Diabetic Conditions Linked to Inflammation
- Lyme Disease & Lyme Co-Infections Benefits of HBOT:
- Decreases Neuronal-inflammation
- Enhances Short Term Memory
- Reduces Chronic Fatigue
- Improves Concencentration
- Ameliorates Chronic Headaches
- Lessens Depression
- Moderates Insomnia – improves sleep quality & duration.
- Increases joint mobility
- Diminishes inflammatory-related Arthritic Pain related to Lyme Disease
- Lesses Muscular Discomfort
- Improves Walking Distance in more progressed lyme disease cases
- Amplifies Energy Levels
- Enhances antibacterial therapies effects
- Induces angiogenesis to mobilize blood flow to affected bone & tissues
- Augments antibiotic interventions by driving spirochetes (lyme bacterium) out of biofilms
- Enhances white blood cell & immune system activity
- Improves Antibiotic cell wall penetration
- Increases Oxygen free radicals to combat the Bb Organism
- 85% of patients in a 91 patient small exploratory trial showed significant improvement by a decrease or elimination of lyme symptoms & follow-up from 6 weeks to 6 years post treatment showed that benefits remained in about 70% of patients post research trial at Texas A&M University.
- Alzheimer’s & Dementia Benefits:
- Enhanced brain performance overall
- Improved attention
- Increased memory
- Enhanced concentration, processing speed & Executive Function.
- Improved Brain Blood Flow
- Improved Quality of Life:
- Induces angiogenesis to mobilize blood flow to affected tissue & bone
- Resolved anxiety
- Better sleep
- Ease of conversation
- Appetite improvement
- Increase in ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs)
- Improved gross motor function & abilities
- Stem Cell Proliferation
- Angiogenesis
- Enhanced Tissue Repair
- Addiction Recovery Benefits of HBOT:
- Repairs damaged neurons
- Decreases Swelling & inflammation
- Aids in Cellular Detoxification
- Improves Circulation in Damaged Tissues
- Regenerates Tissues
- Improves Sleep Patterns
- Stimulates the Appetite
Conventional uses of HBOT from the Mayo Clinic:
“Your body’s tissues need an adequate supply of oxygen to function. When tissue is injured, it requires even more oxygen to survive. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases the amount of oxygen your blood can carry. With repeated scheduled treatments, the temporary extra high oxygen levels encourage normal tissue oxygen levels, even after the therapy is completed.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used to treat several medical conditions. And medical institutions use it in different ways. Your doctor may suggest hyperbaric oxygen therapy if you have one of the following conditions”:
- Severe anemia
- Brain abscess
- Bubbles of air in your blood vessels (arterial gas embolism)
- Burns
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Crushing injury
- Deafness, sudden
- Decompression sickness
- Gangrene
- Infection of skin or bone that causes tissue death
- Non-healing wounds, such as a diabetic foot ulcer
- Radiation injury
- Skin graft or skin flap at risk of tissue death
- Traumatic brain injury
- Vision loss, sudden and painless
The 13 FDA Approved Uses typically performed in a hard shell Hyperbaric chamber in a Hospital:
- Air or Gas Embolism
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Gas Gangrene
- Crush Injury
- Decompression Sickness
- Arterial Insufficiencies
- Intracranial Abscess
- Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
- Delayed Radiation Injury
- Osteomyelitis
- Compromised Skin Grafts and Flaps
- Severe Anemia
- Thermal Burn Injury
Resources:
- The HBOT USA – YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZbRAtrwHXEI5dnMSRiTuVA
- Learn more about HBOT uses & the latest research: hyperbaricexperts.com
- Latest Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Research: https://hyperbaricexperts.com/latest-research/
- International Hyperbarics Association: www.ihausa.org
