How Does HBOT Enhance Wound Healing?
The combination of high pressure and pure oxygen used in HBOT can help your body heal itself faster at several levels.
The atmospheric pressure around you determines how much oxygen makes it into your lungs. In a high-pressure environment – like the chamber that you’re in during HBOT treatments – more oxygen can make its way into your lungs.
Once that extra oxygen is in your lungs, it heads into the bloodstream and gets delivered to cells all over your body. Your cells can actually absorb more oxygen in a high-pressure environment than they can in normal pressure situations.
Every healing process in your bones, soft tissues, and cells depends on having enough oxygen. By exposing yourself to high quantities of high oxygen – like what you get during HBOT treatments – it stimulates your body’s natural healing capabilities.
All of the extra oxygen that makes its way into your system does 5 things great things for your body:
- It makes your body create more blood vessels, which improves your circulation. The better your circulation is, the faster your wounds can heal.
- HBOT injects more oxygen into your cerebral spine fluid, lymphatic fluid, and plasma (the liquid portion of your blood). Those are the fluids responsible for sending oxygen out to your tissues. The more oxygen they have, the more they can send to the tissues. Extra oxygen in your tissues helps rid the body of bacteria, viruses, and excess yeast.
- Extra oxygen in your tissues can also eliminate chronic health problems. Many issues arise because your tissues don’t have enough oxygen in them. As a result, you wind up with tissues that don’t function at normal levels – or that stop functioning altogether. But, once you get high levels of oxygen into your tissues, they can usually regain normal function. And, luckily, they can do it quickly!
- Extra oxygen also boosts the activity of your white blood cells. The stronger your white blood cells are, the easier it is for your body to get rid of infections. Also, strong white blood cells can help your body fight off infections before they have time to develop and make you sick.
- Having extra oxygen in your system can also reduce inflammation around the body. Inflammation can be caused by all sorts of things – like infections, allergies, and exposure to toxins. By getting rid of the inflammation in your body, you can actually slow down the aging process!
In some cases, HBOT will be used in conjunction with other treatments – like physical therapy – in order to speed up the healing process.
