Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or HBOT, refers to the breathing of pure oxygen in an environment with a higher than normal atmospheric pressure. It can be used to treat a number of health problems such as decompression sickness, serious infections, bubbles of air in a patient’s blood vessels, and injuries resulting from diabetes or radiation exposure [...]

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Individuals with Neurological Dysfunction by Ginny Paleg, MS PT for Advance for Physical Therapy Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBO) is a medical treatment that uses pure oxygen to alleviate hypoxia, or lack of oxygen, at the cellular level. In North America, HBO is an accepted intervention for wound healing, the bends and [...]