HBOT INDICATIONS
FDA Approved Indications:
As of July 2021, the FDA has cleared hyperbaric chambers for the following disorders:
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Air and gas bubbles in blood vessels
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Anemia (severe anemia when blood transfusions cannot be used)
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Burns (severe and large burns treated at a specialized burn center)
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Carbon monoxide poisoning
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Crush injury
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Decompression sickness (diving risk)
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Gas gangrene
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Hearing loss (complete hearing loss that occurs suddenly and without any known cause)
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Infection of the skin and bone (severe)
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Radiation injury
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Skin graft flap at risk of tissue death
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Vision loss (when sudden and painless in one eye due to blockage of blood flow)
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Wounds (non-healing, diabetic foot ulcers)
Off-Label Indications:
HBOT has developed a successful track record of helping patients who have been diagnosed with numerous conditions.
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The off-label use of HBOT simply means that the FDA has not explicitly approved a particular treatment protocol using HBOT for a given condition. This, however, does not mean that such treatments are unsafe or ineffective.
Outside of the FDA-approved uses for HBOT therapy, there are now over 120 internationally recognized indications for which hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been shown to be effective and beneficial according to numerous published medical studies. Some of those indications are:
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ADD/ADHD
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Addiction Recovery
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ALS
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Alzheimer's
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Anti-Aging/Performance
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Autism
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Bell's Palsy
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Cancer
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Cerebral Palsy
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Chronic Fatigue
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Concussion/ TBI
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Covid 19
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Dementia
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Diabetes
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Disc Herniation
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Epstein Barr
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Fertility
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Fibromyalgia
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Head Injury
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IBS (Inflammatory Bowel Diseases)
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Low Energy
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Lyme Disease
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Parkinson's
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Peripheral Neuropathy
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Plastic Surgery
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Memory Loss
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Multiple Sclerosis
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Neuro-Degenerative
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Neurologic
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Parkinson's
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Plastic Surgery
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Post-Exercise Recovery
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Post Stroke Recovery
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Post Surgery Recovery
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Sports
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Stem Cells
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Stroke Recovery
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TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
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