What Is HBOT?

  • What Is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)?

    Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a safe, non-invasive procedure that delivers additional oxygen to your body, improving its effectiveness at healing and recovery.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment

Each treatment is called a "dive" and during the dive, the high concentration of oxygen in the chamber allows you to breathe in oxygen at 97% concentration (compared to around 21% in normal air). The pressure combined with the levels of oxygen mean your body will absorb up to 30-40% more oxygen for as long as 8 hours after a 'dive'. Your blood carries the extra oxygen through your body in the plasma, accelerating your natural healing process, reducing inflammation, boosting the production of white blood cells that fight infection and speeding up recovery. HBOT can be used to improve sporting performance, significantly reduce recovery times, treat illness and injury, improve stamina and endurance, promote post-operative healing, improve skin tone, or to support your general health and well being.

  • Pressures of 1.3 ATA, up to 1.5 ATA inside the hyperbaric chamber can stimulate the growth of new blood vessels to increase blood flow to areas of poor circulation.
  • Oxygenated plasma is circulated to reach all injured tissues such as bruised muscles, sprained tendons, surgical wounds, strokes, areas of injury aggravated by damaged circulation.
  • The oxygen in the plasma will dissolve further into the damaged area than the oxygen attached to the red blood cell in the normal oxygen delivery system.
  • Red blood cells become oxygen saturated and the oxygen is distributed into all body fluids like the blood plasma, cerebrospinal fluid, the lymph, all the organs, including the brain.

*O2Heaven do not recommend that HBOT be used as a replacement for conventional medicine, however it has proved to be a valuable form of complementary medicine for existing health conditions.

Boyle's Law

Decreasing bubble volume

If the temperature remains constant, the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to the absolute pressure.

Boyle’s Law (named after Robert Boyle) is fundamental to hyperbaric and undersea medicine because it explains the pathophysiology of barotrauma.

Divers can develop bubbles in their bodies during a fast surface ascension or when they stay in the deep too long, a condition called decompression sickness, in which nitrogen dissolved in the blood and tissues by high-pressure forms bubbles as pressure decreases.

Bubbles that have been formed in the body can be reduced in size with hyperbaric chamber pressure. Decreasing bubble size is a primary therapy for decompression sickness.

The effects of Boyle’s law can be felt during chamber pressurization and depressurization. During pressurization, a patient’s ears will feel full, similar to the feeling experienced when traveling in an airplane. The pressure in the ears must be relieved during pressurization using recommended methods.

Henry's Law

Increasing the oxygen delivered to cells

The amount of gas that will dissolve in a liquid is directly proportional to the partial pressure of that gas above the liquid.

Breathing oxygen inside the pressure chamber increases the total amount of oxygen delivered to the cells by the bloodstream (Henry’s law). In addition, the increases in pressure result in a decrease in the size of bubbles (Boyle’s Law).

An increase in ambient pressure (and thus partial pressure) results in more gas dissolving into the liquid portion of blood and tissues.

The definition of Henry’s Law (named after William Henry) explains that pressure is necessary for a gas (oxygen) to dissolve effectively in a liquid (blood plasma).

Gas will go from a higher density (lungs) to a lower density (tissues) to achieve equilibrium.

The Healing Power of Oxygen

Oxygen is 65% of the human body and acts as an energy source for cells. Many factors such as stress, lifestyle and some unavoidable medical conditions can create low saturation of oxygen and it can turn into hypoxia. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a proven remedy for meeting the deficiency of the human body. A higher amount of oxygen dose in a sophisticated environment can help in treating several health issues such as:

  • Air bubble in blood vessels
  • Anemia
  • Neurological issues
  • Radiation damage recovery
  • Faster burns healing

Health Treatments

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) can be used in the treatment of a wide range of health concerns. By boosting your oxygen levels, HBOT boosts the white blood cells that fight infection and gives your body the ability to heal itself more effectively.

Below is a list of the most common conditions and illnesses that we treat and support, however please call or drop in for a chat about whether HBOT can help with your particular health concern;

  • Arthritis
  • Asthma
  • Burns
  • Cancer
  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Cluster Headaches
  • Crohn’s Disease
  • Diabetic Ulcers
  • Eczema and Psoriasis
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Gangrene
  • Insomnia
  • Long Covid
  • Migraines
  • Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Ulcerative Colitis

Post-Operative recovery

HBOT is widely used to;

  • Shorten recovery time by up to half for patients recovering from surgery
  • Reduce bruising, inflammation and pain
  • Heal wounds and scars quicker
  • Clear infections faster by boosting white blood cells’ ability to fight them

The increased levels of oxygenation speed up the production and release of nutrients, amino acids, stem cells and new blood vessels to repair damaged body tissues, fight infection and improve circulation. The knock-on effect of this for general and plastic surgery patients is faster and more effective post-operative healing and better aesthetic results.

Studies and everyday cases are demonstrating the capacity of HBOT to cut surgery recuperation periods in half. Wounds heal quicker and scars heal better; post-operative bruising and swelling are dramatically reduced; and increased oxygen also helps prevent the rejection of implants and skin grafts.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Skin Care

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy has been dubbed as one of Hollywood's best kept beauty secrets and it is rapidly becoming the first choice for skincare and anti-aging by many celebrities, actors and top models whose skin is constantly in the limelight. Wrinkles, fine lines, acne scars and age spots are all forms of skin damage. By increasing the circulation to the skin, HBOT stimulates collagen production and improves skin elasticity, naturally improving the damage to your skin, diminishing fine lines and wrinkles and repairing scar tissue.