HBOT News & Research
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is increasingly appearing in the news and new research as a treatment for a variety of conditions involving inflammation. Use the search or select an article below to keep up to date on the most recent HBOT News.
Recent Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) News
Effect of large dose hyperbaric oxygenation therapy on prognosis and oxidative stress of acute permanent cerebral ischemic stroke in rats.
Abstract: To evaluate the therapeutic effect and the oxidative stress effect of 9 and 18 hour hyperbaric oxygenation therapy (HBOT) protocols on the earliest stage of acute permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) in rats. The permanent...
Multiple pathogenic roles of microvasculature in inflammatory bowel disease: a Jack of all trades
Abstract The etiology of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, the two major forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is still largely unknown. However, it is now clear that the abnormalities underlying pathogenesis of intestinal inflammation...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for late radiation-associated tissue necroses: is it safe in patients with locoregionally recurrent and then successfully salvaged head-and-neck cancers?
Abstract: To test, in a retrospective matched-pair study, whether necrosis-rescuing hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) increases the risk of cancer re-recurrence in patients with locoregionally recurrent and then successfully salvaged head-and-neck...
Efficacy of Waon therapy for fibromyalgia
Abstract Objective: Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic syndrome characterized by widespread pain with tenderness in specific areas. We examined the applicability of Waon therapy (soothing warmth therapy) as a new method of pain treatment in...
Relationship between autonomic neuropathy and hypertension–are we underestimating the problem?
Abstract: Cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality in diabetes and the risk is even greater in those with hypertension. The aim of our study was to investigate the relationship between CAN and 24-h...
Combined spinal-epidural block in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: case report.
Abstract: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis starts between the fifth and sixth decades of life, causing degeneration and death of upper and lower motor neurons. When the muscles responsible for ventilation are affected, the patient dies of respiratory...
Inappropriate suggestion of benefit from hyperbaric oxygen for spinal cord injury.
Abstract: New, , , , , , , , (2008). Inappropriate suggestion of benefit from hyperbaric oxygen for spinal cord injury. Spinal cord, 2008 Dec;46(12):824. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18504450
Inappropriate suggestion of benefit from hyperbaric oxygen for spinal cord injury.
Abstract: New, , , , , , , , (2008). Inappropriate suggestion of benefit from hyperbaric oxygen for spinal cord injury. Spinal cord, 2008 Dec;46(12):824. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18504450
Viewpoint: the type A- and the type B-variants of Decompression Sickness.
Abstract: Symptoms of neurological decompression incidents (DCS/AGE) can be severe or mild. It is unknown if these differences of symptom presentation represent different clinical entities or if they represent just the spectrum of DCS/AGE. 267...