HYPERMED CONDITIONS TREATED

 

Most patients attending HyperMED Australia are referred, and present with a long-standing and complicated history of disability. Many patients and their families recognize their lack of improvement and are often referred to us as ‘the last hope’. Due to the severity of their disability and their failure to improve with conventional therapies, most patients hope that the use of Hyperbaric Oxygenation together with assertive physical therapy (Lokomat) will produce better results. 

Orthopaedic and Neurological disorders are our prime focus, given the fact that approximately 20-30% of the body’s consumption of Oxygen occurs within 3-5% of the body mass – the brain and spinal cord. These structures are extremely sensitive to oxygen deficiency, and can have the most dramatic results with the use of HBOT (Jain 1995).

Hyperbaric Medicine is used as an ‘adjunctive therapy’. HBOT is used in conjunction with other forms of aggressive treatment recommended by the patient’s Doctor, to promote stabilization and repair. The purpose of Hyperbaric Oxygenation (HBOT) is to repair tissue that is severely damaged because of inadequate blood supply.

  • HyperMED Patient Handbook - Requirements for Hyperbaric Oxygenation

  • HBOT improves the immune system mechanisms with an increase in lymphocyte (white blood cell) production, promoting fibroblast replication and collagen production, repairing disc and supporting ligaments.

  • HBOT accelerates body defence mechanisms enabling the patient to overcome chronic infections and viral conditions inhibiting immune system function. This is extremely important in spinal surgery patients where delayed wound healing due to poor vascular compliance leads to further serious complications. The incidence of post surgical scarring, adhesions and predisposition to infection is dramatically reduced with HBOT.

In the United States of America, England, Europe and Asia, HBOT is used routinely to promote accelerated healing including pre and post operative procedures. It is used to reduce secondary complications including infections, and to promote functional rehabilitation. HBOT significantly reduces the length of post-surgical rehabilitation care and hospitalisation, which reduces costs (Jain 1995).

Hyperbaric Medicine is not a ‘cure all’, but has been clearly demonstrated to dramatically increase immune capabilities, assisting patients with problems ranging from simple delayed wound healing to complex disabilities and impairment.

Traumatology

Orthopedic Disorders

Neurological Disorders

Cardiac Disorders

Plastic and Reconstructive surgery

Peripheral Vascular Disorders

Fertility

Haematology

Chronic NeuroDegenerative Illness

Cancer Survival - Radiosensitivity

Ophthalmology

  • Central retinal artery occlusion

Otorhinolaryngology

  • Sudden deafness

  • Acute acoustic trauma

  • Labyrinthitis

  • Meniere’s disease

  • Malignant otitis externa (chronic infection)

Gastrointestinal

  • Gastric and duodenal ulcers

  • Necrotising enterocolitis

  • Paralytic ileus

  • Pneumotoides cystoides intestinalis

  • Hepatitis

Endocrine Disorders

  • All stages of diabetes

Lung Disorders

  • Lung abscess

  • Pulmonary embolism (as an adjunct to surgery)

Obstetrics

Complications of pregnancy, including