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Any SH made use of hyperbaric oxygen treatment to support rehabitation of injury?
Research base seems mixed on this, but sport teams use it to accelerate return to fitness of their players.
Our local MS society have a chamber and it looks like a course of 'dives' (as they call them) would be about £200 for 10 sessions.
Seems to me that it would do no harm - other than to my bank account. Would be interested to hear if anyone has direct experience.
Thanks in advance
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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cherylfoster, if that is a sample of your translation work, then I'd think twice about using your services. Not even good spam to be honest!
Ian Kenvyn, the local "pots" I used in the UK all offered services to MS subjects and I acted as an assistant sometimes in the pot. That seemed to help my rehab but I'm not sure why to be honest. Blood sweat and tears in the rehab gym with my physio were much better long-term options 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I spoke to a Dr in a hotel one night - she was off to a conference on this sort of oxygen treatment - I'd never heard of it before, but she said it was proving very good for helping raw areas heal on particularly diabetic patients. I kind of got the impression that it was applied topically to the injury in question, but this might have a misunderstanding on my part. She seemed very keen on the concept and reported big success in these Diabetic groups.
N.B. I know that doesn't really answer the OP, but I just thought it was interesting as I had never heard of it before.
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Thanks for the posts - Samerberg Sue, you got me a little confused with that flaming, 'til I realised I was not in the firing line - phew 
No stranger to blood,sweat and tears - off to see my favourite physioterrorist in the morning after yet another gym session this evening.
Think I will give the hyperbaric a whirl as well and will report back.
Ian
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Hope you get well to ski soon,
I have a friend who broke her leg {badly] motor bike racing and had scaffolding on leg {surgical Type} she went to a POT, and the Docs treating her could not belive the healing process taken a short time compared to their normal recommendation so good look with that.
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My friend had ligaments in his knee repaired. He the had access to a hyperbaric chamber for the initial rehab. He seemed to think it helped and he was certainly back being fairly active in surprisingly quick time. Whether that was down to the use of the chamber or not though...
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Hyperbaric O2 is now part of treatment for gaut, burns victims, and all kinds of other weird and wonderful stuff.
It might help you, but I'd definitely be speaking to specialists before going for it or spending lots of money on it.
Your doctor can refer you for hyperbaric treatment, I guess that very much depends on whether they consider it to stand a good chance of helping, and whether your quality of life is being significantly affected by the injury. It may also depend on how much it costs them and you might end up waiting months to get in anyway - pots are taken up in emergency cases for various things (normally divers with the bends) so can mean that routine treatment gets put back as a result.
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| Monium wrote: |
Your doctor can refer you for hyperbaric treatment. |
Sorry, no they can't.
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| Freddie Paellahead wrote: |
| Monium wrote: |
Your doctor can refer you for hyperbaric treatment. |
Sorry, no they can't. |
Just so. And if it had stayed in the NHS system I would still be waiting for my first phsyio session (accident +4 weeks), I would still be in a full-leg splint and would still be on crutches.
As it is I have an exercise/stetching programme, I am using a hinged knee-brace and have taken the sticks back to the hospital. I am at session 5 of 20 with hyperbaric - making me oddly sleepy, but otherwise no negative effect.
I am not criticising the NHS, it is designed to a low common denominator, I have done what I have, because I can.
Also I intend to ski twice more this season. As to cost, cancelling flights alone would have put me very much out of pocket. Also, 4 years ago I broke a collar-bone (cycling) and having to tell our son that the half-term ski trip was off was a difficult discussion I will do everything I can to avoid repeating. And I intend to be able to be active in my summer sport of triathlon come the spring.
Ian
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| Freddie Paellahead wrote: |
| Monium wrote: |
Your doctor can refer you for hyperbaric treatment. |
Sorry, no they can't. |
That's funny, because all the people I've ever been in a pot with have been referred under the NHS - though admittedly for burns and similar, mention of diabetes above rings a bell as well. I've also had several friends who have disrupted NHS patients who were due to go into a pot for long term problems because their treatment was more urgent.
Also when treated for decompression sickness the NHS picks up the tab, the bill gets sent to your PCT. So it is entirely possible to get hyperbaric treatment through the NHS, just not necessarily for this kind of injury. I guarantee that if I walked into my GP surgery with certain symptoms I could get them to refer me for recompression treatment, because that is the appropriate and accepted treatment for a number of conditions.
I'd imagine it might require a consultation with a specialist or similar, but referral for hyperbaric treatment is entirely possible, because the people at the pot being treated were NHS patients. They didn't get there by magic.
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Monium, basically yes. To me the words "your doctor" = your GP.
GPs cannot refer for hyperbaric treatment (I suspect most would not know how to start doing so acutely for Decompression Sickness and it would happen via A&E).
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From a slightly different apect, when running saturation dives we would keep the chamber atmosphere at an Oxygen partcial pressure of 0.6 atm. The divers were always suffering from cuts and abrasions as part of the job, it was noticable that these healed much quicker whilst under pressure. We also had a Chevron rep who suffered from MS whom we allowed a session of 02 therapy and he came out much happier!
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