Recovery from Surgery
HBOT is a natural tool that helps aid in the healing process and shorten recovery time post-surgery. Surgical wounds often have low blood supply and HBOT can help by inducing new blood vessel growth. Many surgeons now recommend pre-and/or post-operative HBOT to their patients in order to enhance their healing, recovery, and results.
HBOT Benefits
Physiological Benefits
- Quicker healing
- Less scarring, bruising, infection
Enhances Healing & Recovery
- Reduces inflammation
- Minimizes pain & discomfort
- Reduces swelling
Reduces Risk of Infection
- Elevates phagocytosis to above normal levels
- Enhances microbial activity
- Increases intracellular leukocytes
Support Healing at Cellular Level
- Promotes anti-inflammatory proteins
- Improved angiogenesis enhancing blood flow to tissues
- Induces fibroblast activation
- Enhances collagen production
- Stimulates neovascularization and vasodilation
- Stimulates bone remodeling
Supporting Research
- Wound Healing Angiogenesis: the clinical implications of a simple mathematical model
- Endothelial Progenitor Cell Release into Circulation is Triggered by Hyperoxia-induced Increases in Bone Marrow Nitric Oxide
- Hyperbaric Oxygen, Vasculogenic Stem Cells, and Wound healing
- Angiogenesis and Vasculogenesis: inducing the growth of new blood vessels and wound healing by stimulation of bone marrow-deprived progenitor cell mobilization and homing
- Stem cell mobilization by hyperbaric oxygen
- Can preventive hyperbaric oxygen therapy optimise surgical outcome? a systematic review of randomised controlled trials
