HYPERBARIC CHAMBERS

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What Is It?

Hyperbaric chambers are a form of therapy where an individual is placed in a pressurized surrounding to boost inhalation of pure oxygen. It’s normally termed hyperbaric oxygen therapy or HBOT and entails increasing the air pressure 2 or 3 times the normal levels to boost pure oxygen levels in the lungs rapidly.

What Does It Do?

Hyperbaric chambers or HBOT have multiple uses but mostly involve adding the amounts of pure oxygen in the body tissues or cells to quicken recovery from chronic wounds, gangrene, and poisoning from carbon monoxide gas. This therapy provides the body with adequate oxygen to aid in combating bacteria-causing diseases by triggering the production of more growth factors that speed up the recovery process. It can also heal brain abscesses, skin conditions that destroy cells or tissues, radiation wounds, sudden vision problems, burns, and a reverse lack of oxygen in body tissues.

Does It Work?

Hyperbaric chambers are highly effective in increasing oxygen supply with few after-effects. HBOT can be used to treat a wide range of diseases that involve wound healing and need more oxygenated tissues or cells.

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