Podiatry
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) can serve as a powerful adjunctive treatment for Pediatric patients.
Research supports the effects of HBOT on improving wound tissue hypoxia, enhancing perfusion, reducing edema, down regulating inflammatory cytokines, promoting fibroblast proliferation, collagen production, and angiogenesis. It is shown to be especially helpful in difficult or non-healing wounds, such as Wagner grade three and four chronic diabetic ulcers. HBOT treats soft tissue and bone infections by mechanisms that include killing microorganisms, improving leukocyte and macrophage function, and enhancing the effect of antimicrobials. HBOT reduces the risk of lower-extremity amputation in diabetic patients with foot wounds.
HBOT is also helpful in acute crush injuries, acute traumatic peripheral ischemia, chronic refractory osteomyelitis, and acute peripheral arterial thrombosis, occlusions or insufficiency.
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- Decreases inflammation and swelling
- Downregulates cytokines (including TNF-alpha, IL-1, IL-6)
- Bactericidal to anaerobic and facultative anaerobic bacteria
- Anti-fungal
- Promotes angiogenesis
- Up to 800% increase in stem cells
- Decreases fibrosis and general scarring
- Decreases reperfusion/crush injury
- Downregulates pro-inflammatory genes
- Enhanced connective tissue strength and flexibility
- Enhances fibroblast and collagen synthesis
- Accelerates bone growth
- Accelerates all stages of wound healing
- Acute reversal tissue ischemia
- Heals radiation injury due to cancer treatments
- Improves Immune system function
- Reduces infection (promotes leukocyte oxidative killing)
- Increases plasma oxygen levels up to 1200% for enhanced delivery
- Improves delivery of medications (including antibiotics)
- Enhances detoxification
