Everything About Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
A hyperbaric chamber is used for Hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The therapy is all about breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized environment. This is a great way of treatment to prevent decompression sickness and the potential risk of scuba diving. There are other conditions that oxygen therapy can easily treat including serious infections, bubbles of air in your blood vessels, and wounds that take time to heal as a result of diabetes or radiation injury. In an oxygen therapy chamber , the air pressure is two to three times higher than normal air pressure. Thus your lungs can intake much more oxygen compared to what it would be able to breathe pure oxygen at normal air pressure. As your blood carries this extra oxygen throughout your body, your system is enabled to fight bacteria and stimulate the release of substances such as growth factors and stem cells, which helps in healing. Here's Why it's done Your body's tissues need a good amount of oxygen supply to run daily funct...