Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) works due to increased atmospheric pressure.

In the hospital setting, HBOT is used for non-healing wounds like gangrene, severe diabetic ulcers, crush injuries, and burns covering over 70% of your body. As pressure increases within the chamber, oxygen is pushed across the concentration gradient into the cells of the damaged tissues, stimulating repair and regeneration in previously non-responsive wounds. The mechanisms that drive oxygen into non-healing tissues saving lives and limbs in the wound clinic, are the same mechanisms that drive oxygen into all the tissues/cells of your body. Oxygen is driven into the brain, stimulating regeneration whether the brain was injured, such as TBI/stroke, or suffering from degenerative changes like Alzheimer’s or dementia. Oxygen is driven into the musculoskeletal system stimulating repair from injuries and improving recovery. Anti-inflammatory, pro-immune system, and anti-aging cell signaling cascades are pulsed with each repetitive pressure exposure. 

During a session in our mild hyperbaric chamber, you will experience diving down to 1.3 ATA [4psi] while breathing concentrated oxygen through a mask. This high-pressure/high-oxygen environment is a hormetic stress, a positive stress stimulating adaptation, growth, and repair. About half of the therapy occurs when you are in the chamber and loading your body with oxygen. The second half of the therapy occurs once you get out of the chamber, and the oxygen proliferates throughout your body's tissues. Think of a bottle of seltzer water pumped full of gas. It looks like regular water, but all the gas bubbles become apparent once the bottle is opened. The repetitive exposure in successive HBOT sessions creates a wave of high oxygen (hyperoxia) and (relative) low oxygen (hypoxia), continuously pulsing a significant and lasting healing response in the body.