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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Wound Healing

Safe, natural, and effective to treat non-healing wounds.

Types of Wounds HBOT Treats

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy addresses wound healing at a deep cellular level, so it can be used to treat a wide range of wounds, burns, and other injuries and health complications. 

Diabetic Foot Ulcer

The use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to treat diabetic lower extremity wounds, commonly referred to as diabetic foot ulcers, reduces amputation rates and can dramatically improve quality of life. HBOT does this by:

  • Fighting infection
  • Creating new blood vessels
  • Accelerating wound healing
  • Reducing inflammation

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Radiation Tissue Damage

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy helps regenerate blood cells - process called angiogenesis, increase stem cells and accelerate healing after radiation in the following regions/areas:

  • Bladder – following radiation from bladder or prostate cancer. Symptoms include urine frequency, pain, burning or bleeding.
  • Breast – following radiation after a Masectomy or for breast cancer.
  • Head, Neck & Jaw – leading to dental complications or jawbone problems and difficulty swallowing or moving the neck
  • Bowel complications or bleeding after colon cancer radiation
  • Neurological changes after radiation therapy for brain cancer

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Failed Flaps & Grafts

To be successful, both skin grafts and flaps need a healthy, oxygenated transplant site. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is used to prepare the wound site before the transplant and to promote healing after the skin graft or flap transplant by increasing the flow of oxygen-rich blood to the affected area.

  • Prepares wound for transplant
  • Increases healing
  • Reduces recovery time

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Non-Healing Wounds

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can help repair wounds and improve the healing process by boosting blood flow. This is how HBOT helps:

  • Reduces risk of amputation in diabetic patients
  • Kills anaerobic bacteria
  • Reduces size of certain wounds

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Soft Tissue Infections

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can aid patients with necrotizing soft tissue infections by amplifying the effects of antibiotics, enhancing the body’s natural ability to fight off bacteria, and since some strains of bacteria are anaerobic, inhibit replication and directly kill the organism. HBOT helps by:

  • Enhancing body’s natural defense mechanisms
  • Boosting the effects of antibiotics
  • Killing certain bacteria
  • Improving healing

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Burns

Thermal burn injuries are prone to infection, inflammation and swelling. HBOT can help in the healing of burns by:

  • Helping fight infection
  • Reducing pain
  • Increasing oxygen which speeds up cell repair and recovery
  • Promoting stem cell mobilization
  • Reducing inflammation and swelling

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Surgical Prep, Recovery & Complications

All surgeries, even those performed to cure or improve medical conditions, result in wounds that the body will need to heal. HBOT is especially effective in complex surgical cases where there is a high risk of wound healing complications. HBOT:

  • Reduces edema/inflammation
  • Enhances oxygen availability to injured tissue
  • Promotes fibroblast proliferation/collagen synthesis, decreasing fibrosis
  • Reduces incidence of infection due to the enhancement of leukocyte oxidative killing
  • Increases tensile strength of healed tissue
  • Increases angiogenesis (creation of new blood vessels)

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HBOT Benefits Non-Healing Wounds

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Reduces Amputation Risk

A systematic review of 10 studies found that HBOT reduced the risk of major amputation by 76%.

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Kills Anaerobic Bacteria

Anaerobic bacteria thrive in environments with low oxygen levels, such as deep wounds or infected tissues. HBOT can kill these bacteria, further supporting wound healing.

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Reduces Wound Size
HBOT has been shown to be effective in reducing the size of a variety of chronic wounds, including diabetic foot ulcers, non-healing wounds, skin grafts and flaps, and more.
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Speeds Up Healing and Recovery

Studies have found that HBOT was associated with a 50% reduction in the time it takes for chronic wounds to close.

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Research & Studies

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Solution for Difficult to Heal Wounds – Systematic Review

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Wound Healing and Limb Salvage: a Systematic Review

Case Report: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) as Adjunctive Treatment for Pyoderma Gangrenosum

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy with Topical Negative Pressure: an Alternative Treatment for the Refractory Sternal Wound Infection

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Non-Healing Vasculitic Ulcers

Ischemic scleroderma wounds successfully treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Effect of HBOT on nerve regeneration in early diabetes

Dr. Katz, Keynote Speaker at Yale New Haven Health's Symposium

HMS Medical Director, Dr. Katz, is the upcoming keynote speaker at Yale New Haven Health's Wound Science Symposium

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How Does Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Help With Wound Healing?

Learn how HBOT can heal wounds faster and naturally. From non-healing wounds, to diabetic foot uclers, post-surgical wounds, radiation damage and more.

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Case Study:  'Tummy Tuck' Wound Healed with HBOT

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy helps a women with a failed flap and non-healing would following an abdominoplasty aka tummy tuck, a well-known plastic surgery.

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Case Study: Patient Overcomes Severe COVID-19 Plus Osteomyelitis and Non-Healing Wound with HBOT

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy helps a patient suffering with Osteomyelitis and a non-healing, chronic wound that resulted from a long-term hospital stay from COVID-19.

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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as a Diabetic Foot Ulcer Treatment

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a diabetic foot ulcer treatment approved by the FDA that aims to help heal these wounds with pure oxygen.

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Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Compromised Skin Grafts and Flaps in Breast Reconstruction

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can help salvage compromised skin grafts and tissue flaps during breast reconstructions to achieve full and healthy recovery.

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New Published Case Report: HBOT as treatment for Pyoderma Gangrenosum

Published case report published on patients who used HBOT for treatment of pyoderma gangrenosum, resulting with closure of wounds and reduction of pain.

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Learn About Diabetic Foot Ulcers

The diabetic sores on the feet of those with this metabolic disease are foot ulcers that can become infected if not properly treated.

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Tips for Diabetic Wound Care

Diabetic wound care tips include learning about hyperbaric oxygen therapy and watching for any signs of regression.

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Diabetes Awareness Month: HBOT Healing Wounds and Saving Lives

Diabetes is a growing epidemic, creating non-healing wounds. Prevention is key, but risks of amputation remain. HBOT heals diabetic wounds & saves lives.

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