Overview:
For more than 300 years, people have been breathing pressurized air for it's therapeutic effect.  The use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy goes back as far as the 17th century in England where the very first pressurized chamber was built by a man named Henshaw.  By the 18th century, compressed "hyperbaric" air was being used regularly for divers to treat "the bends."

We are moving into a new century filled with technological hope and unknown possibilities for the many medical and health related issues we face as a human race.  Fortunately, we are also beginning to realize that the human body is a remarkably adept machine capable of self-repair if we give it the rest, nutrition and environmental conditions it needs to heal, which is where hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) fits into the equation.

Humans can live weeks without food, and days without water, but hardly more than 5 minutes without oxygen.  Oxygen is required for continual operation and healing of our bodies.  Worldwide research confirms that breathing 100% oxygen under pressure forces the oxygen into hard-to-reach tissues of infections, injuries, and sources of disease and assists the body in healing.  When oxygen is breathed under slightly increased atmospheric pressure, it acts like a potent healing drug, with no adverse side affects.

What is HBOT:

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy uses a specialized pressurized chamber to allow a person to breathe 100% pure oxygen, typically between 1.3 and 2.5 times greater than normal atmospheric pressure.  This leads one's blood to carry large amounts of oxygen, bringing more oxygen to the organs and tissues of the body.

For those receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy, this is a means of saturating the blood and tissue with oxygen.  This deep oxygen saturation brings about the unprecedented healing in wound care, strokes, bacterial infections and much more.  This rapid healing can be attributed to increase ATP production and stem cell increase via oxidative metabolism. 

Hyperbaric therapy promotes healing by oxygen, not only by saturating red blood cells, but also dissolving into the plasma thus getting to the cells and tissue that red blood cells can not reach.

It is accepted that Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is safe and provides extra oxygen with virtually no side effects.