Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy ( HBOT ) is a treatment that uses pressure and oxygen to help your body heal.
Hyperbarics treats wounds of any duration, in any location, using high flow oxygen, applied under pressure.
HBOT works by improving performance of many body functions like blood flow and how your genes work, which makes it effective for helping your body recover from sickness or injury.
HBOT can induce a wide range of cellular, biochemical, and physiological changes throughout the body. We currently treat a wide variety of medical conditions.
The Wellington Hyperbarics difference is:
1. All patients are under the medical supervision of our medical director.
2. All patients are treated using prescribed oxygen at medically significant levels of pressure.
3. Our chambers can treat clients at 2 ATA. This is two atmospheres, and this is important.
4. Our chambers are all european made, hard shell chambers.
5. We are licensed to use FDA approved neurological testing software, that can show progress prior during and after treatment.
To find out if hyperbaric oxygen therapy could help you, or a person you care about, please write to us with your questions, and we will have one of our team reply to you personally.
Recovering from Cancer
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is recognised by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an approved treatment for radiation wounds, especially those that occur after cancer treatments. Radiation therapy, often used to treat cancers, can sometimes damage healthy tissues in the process.
This can lead to wounds or other complications, especially in soft tissues such as the skin, muscles, and bones. When radiation causes such damage, it can lead to conditions like radiation necrosis (where tissues die due to lack of blood flow), chronic wounds, or non-healing ulcers. These are often difficult to treat because the damaged tissues are deprived of oxygen, which is essential for healing.
HBOT helps in these situations by delivering high flow oxygen at increased pressure inside a hyperbaric chamber. This process increases the amount of oxygen dissolved in the blood, which is then delivered to the damaged tissues.
The high oxygen levels promote the formation of new blood vessels (a process called angiogenesis) and improve the ability of white blood cells to fight infection, which speeds up the healing process. By increasing oxygenation, HBOT can counteract the lack of oxygen that radiation-damaged tissues experience, leading to better recovery outcomes.
For cancer patients, HBOT is particularly useful in treating radiation-induced injuries that can occur months or even years after cancer treatment.
Studies have shown that HBOT can significantly improve symptoms and healing in patients suffering from late radiation injuries to tissues like the bladder (radiation cystitis), jawbones (osteoradionecrosis), and skin.
The therapy enhances tissue regeneration, reduces pain, and helps heal wounds that have been resistant to other treatments.
Beyond its use for radiation wounds, HBOT also offers potential benefits for cancer patients undergoing treatment. Although it is not a direct treatment for cancer, HBOT can help manage certain side effects of cancer therapies.
For example, it has been found to help with issues like inflammation and tissue damage caused by radiation and chemotherapy. HBOT has shown promise in reducing inflammation, which is often heightened in cancer treatments, and can help tissues recover more quickly.
By promoting oxygen flow, it also helps tissues repair more efficiently and boosts the body’s overall healing processes. Furthermore, some emerging research suggests that by increasing oxygen supply, HBOT could enhance the effectiveness of certain cancer treatments by making cancer cells more sensitive to radiation and chemotherapy.
