Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy for Brain Injuries

From my experience in treating brain injuries, this is by far the most powerful treatment for helping patients achieve their maximum recovery. It must be noted that the brain itself takes and consumes up to 25% of our normal oxygen consumption. This treatment works to force oxygen into our brain for those cells that have been affected by a previous injury and are now functioning on lower oxygen tensions in the brain. Through adaptation, a series of consecutive oxygen treatments can help to normalize this lower oxygen tension to the affected brain cells. This is created by the physiological affects of this treatment to reduce any fluid surrounding the damaged parts of the brain, restoring the oxygen tension to viable cells, and creating new blood vessel growth to the damaged tissues that have lost adequate blood supply. It must be noted that hyperbaric oxygenation therapy is a hospital-approved therapy for hard-to-heal wounds (like diabetic wounds to the legs and feet to help save these limbs from amputations). Consider then the brain to be just another organ that when injured can use this therapy for its hard to heal wound.