Who uses HBOT?
At NUMA, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is sought after by a diverse range of clients looking to harness its potential benefits to enhance overall health and address a variety of conditions.
Common Reasons
The following are the primary reasons people seek HBOT at NUMA:
- Healthy individuals pursuing the physiological and therapeutic benefits of oxygen therapy
- Sports Performance and injury recovery enhancement
- Post-surgical recovery and wound healing
- Concussion and traumatic brain injury
- Sensorineural hearing loss
- Inflammatory bowel disease (such as Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis)
- Fibromyalgia / ME / Chronic Fatigue
- Stroke rehabilitation
- Lyme disease
- Interstitial Cystitis
- Individuals with chronic inflammatory conditions
- Delayed radiation injury (soft tissue and Bony Necrosis)
Worldwide Applications
The European Committee for Hyperbaric Medicine’s (ECHM) 10th Consensus Conference on Hyperbaric Medicine agreed on revisions to their list of accepted indications for HBOT in April 2016, with the final report published in March 2017.
The 13th edition of the US based Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society’s (UHMS) “Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Indications” (April 2014) defines the worldwide accepted 14 indications for HBOT
- Air or Gas Embolism
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Gas Gangrene
- Compartment Syndrome
- Crush Injury
- Other Traumatic Ischaemias
- Decompression Sickness (Bends)
- Arterial Insufficiencies
- Severe Anaemia
- Intracranial Abscess
- Necrotising Soft Tissue Infection
- Osteomyelitis (Refractory)
- Delayed Radiation Injury (Soft Tissue and Bony Necrosis)
- Compromised Grafts and Flaps
- Acute Thermal Burn Injury
- Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
NHS Funded Applications
In the UK, the NHS currently provides funding for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for the following conditions
- Decompression Illness
- Arterial Gas Embolism
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