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Excerpt from Children with Starving Brains Chapter Nine, Hyperbaric
Therapy Many of the greatest discoveries in science and medicine have been found by accident. So it was with methylcobalamin and
autism. So it is with hyperbaric oxygen therapy
and autism. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is classically defined as the inhalation of 100% oxygen at greater than 1 atmosphere absolute (ATA)
in a pressurized chamber. This definition is
now popularly defined as the
inhalation of varying degrees of oxygen at greater than 1 atmosphere
absolute (ATA) in a pressurized chamber. You will hear many terms
used interchangeably by lay people and professionals alike: hyperbaric
oxygen therapy (HBOT), mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy (mHBOT), hyperbaric
therapy (HBT), hyperbaric oxygen (HBO), hyperbaric air therapy (HBAT),
hyperbaric enriched air therapy (HBEAT),
etc. However, the most common way the term is used by the autism
community is to just say "HBOT". Then most parents will state what
they are doing, e.g. "we're using 1.5, 1.75, or 2.0 atmospheres
in a hard chamber with 100% oxygen, or we're using a soft
chamber (also referred to as a mild chamber) at 1.3 atmospheres 'with or
without a mask' to which 'concentrated oxygen' is be supplied
at concentrations varying from 24% to 70%." Conventional wisdom states
that unless one receives HBOT in a hard chamber with 100% oxygen at atmospheric
pressures greater than 1.5 ATA, little or no benefit will be seen and if parents
use a soft chamber with lower pressures and
lower oxygen concentrations, they are just wasting their money and
cheating their children. However, as history has shown repeatedly throughout
the years, convention is only convention
until challenged, proven wrong, and then changed. Such
is the case with HBOT and autism! Based on the soon-to-be published studies by
Dr. Rossignol, the early work of Dr. Buckley
and
Dr. Kartzinel, and the tremendous number of children that have been treated by
physicians such as Dr. Bradstreet, Dr. Feingold, Dr. Freedenfeld, Dr.
Stoller and myself, and a growing number of other physicians who are now using
HBOT routinely in their offices, there remains no doubt that HBOT works and that
it works well for children with autism. There
is also no doubt that it works well at low pressures with varying degrees of oxygen concentrations as well as at
varying degrees of high pressures with 100% oxygen. As shown from Rossignol's
study, high pressure and low pressure treatments both respond about equally well
but high pressure treatments and low pressure
treatments may each do better to improve different types of symptoms.
It is my opinion that this early research, when considered alongside the three
general mechanisms of action I will propose later on in this paper,
suggests that most children may need treatment at high and low pressures with varying oxygen
concentrations in order to receive the maximum cumulative
benefit. To Order Book Click Here or click Picture Below
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Click here to watch clips from Flip This House featuring a hyperbaric chamber Click here to read article about Sylvester Stallone and his use of a hyperbaric chamber during the filming of ROCKY BALBOA
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Hyperbaric Therapy is intended to benefit normal structure and function and is not prescribed as a treatment for medical or psychological conditions, nor for diagnosis, care, treatment or rehabilitation of individuals, nor to apply medical, mental health or human development principles.
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