Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Patients to National Healing Corporation's hyperbaric oxygen outpatient services are often utilized to treat chronic wounds that haven't healed in 30 days or medical conditions such as diabetes, bone infections, radiation skin irritations or vascular disorders resulting in poor blood circulation.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a medical treatment that increases the amount of oxygen in the blood, allowing oxygen to pass more easily through the plasma into the wounds to heal them. Hyperbaric oxygen chambers surround patients with 100% oxygen at higher than normal atmospheric pressure. As on a plane, the only sensation patients experience is a slight pressure in the ears as the pressure changes.

A variety of medical specialists such as primary care physicians, internists, podiatrists, radiation oncologists, dentists, gynecologists, neurologists and urologists refer patients to hyperbaric oxygen outpatient services.

There is no standard number of hyperbaric oxygen treatments since people respond differently. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been approved by Medicare to treat more than one dozen conditions including diabetic foot ulcers, radiation injuries to tissue and bone, necrotizing infections, compromised skin grafts and skin flaps and some types of arterial insufficiency and ischemia.