Lowcountry residents are among the growing number of communities, stretching from coast to coast, that can proudly boast having access to a cutting-edge treatment successfully improving the lives of people around the world.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is sweeping the USA as a safe and effective treatment for a wide variety of medical conditions and acute injuries. One-hundred percent, pure oxygen is pressurized and slowly introduced inside the high tech, fully computerized hyperbaric chamber under medical supervision.
The patient lies comfortably inside the fully acrylic chamber and breathes normally. Treatment time can be used to watch a DVD or television program on a mounted flat screen monitor. Varying degrees of pressure depths are used in accordance with treatment indications. The entire treatment takes approximately 90 minutes.
The basic principle behind Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is easy to understand – oxygen is vital to the healing process. Outside of hyperbaric conditions, only red blood cells have the ability to carry oxygen. By adding HBOT, oxygen (when placed under pressu re) is dissolved into all body fluids — such as plasma, lymph, interstitial, synovial and cerebrospinal fluid. This creates up to 20 times above normal oxygen delivery to cells, increasing the body’s ability to create new blood vessels, build new connective tissue, foster new cell production, mobilize stem cells and bolster the immune system.
Dr. Mehmet Oz recently explained the benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on the nationally televised "Oprah Winfrey Show." Chairman and professor of cardiac surgery at Columbia University, Dr. Oz, a respected and well known medical expert who regularly appears on "Oprah" to speak about various health-related topics, took a televised HBO treatment at a free standing, Chicago-area Hyperbaric Treatment Center. Wheeling an actual hyperbaric chamber on stage, he reported on the growing field of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and its array of successful uses. (http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20090305-tows-oz-live-longer/5).
Hyperbaric Therapy of the Lowcountry, at 94 Main Street, Suite E on Hilton Head Island, has been assisting patients with non-healing wounds, post-surgical recovery, stroke recovery, multiple sclerosis, peripheral neuropathy, cerebral palsy, vascular insufficiency and autism — to name just a few of the indications that have proven responsive to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Pete Stephens, MD, is available for complimentary patient consultation and to answer questions about treatment. Hyperbaric Therapy of the Lowcountry is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and welcomes all inquiries. More information can be obtained from the Web site, www.htlowcountry.com or by calling (843) 681-3300.
