LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been around since the 1940′s, when it was first used to treat scuba divers who had decompression sickness. More recently, it’s become a successful treatment to...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has shown promise in treatment for patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, according to a study published in Cellular Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Hyperbaric oxygen...
One of the earliest documented cases of HBOT to treat complications of Crohn’s disease (CD) was in 1989. It was a woman with "severe perineal CD that defied medical therapy for eight years". In this particular case the woman was treated with...
The lowest point comes a few months later, when he undergoes an endoscopy-colonoscopy-biopsy. He has a bad reaction to the general anesthesia—as he comes out of it, his eyes bulge wide and he starts wailing, a loud, screechy sob that reminds me...
One woman with UC shares how hyperbaric oxygen therapy helped her recover from a severe flare.There is no cure for ulcerative colitis. It took me a long time to realize that the chronic condition is a lifelong journey with a number of therapies that can help along the...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy was effective, safe and well tolerated in hospitalized patients with ulcerative colitis experiencing moderate-to-severe disease flares, according to data from a randomized, double blind, sham-controlled trial presented at the 12th Congress of...