All of us know someone limited and even debilitated by
Severe Headaches.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is helping!


Migraines can be very debilitating.

• They vary in intensity.
• Symptoms may cause nausea.
• There may be light and sound sensitivity.
• They may cause cardiovascular disease.
• Migraines can cause early death along with thoughts of suicide.(1)

A migraine headache is a complex multi system disorder. It appears to be caused by changes in the diameter of arteries to the brain (contractions or dilatation). The blood vessels are quite literally intertwined with all other mediators of migraine pathophysiology.(2)

There are many institutions and foundations studying risk factors and triggers or genetic predispositions, but the cause(s) are still unknown.



How HBOT helped eliminate Raquel’s migraine headaches
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is defined by The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society (UHMS.org), as breathing 100% oxygen at a pressure greater than one atmosphere absolute (ATA).
Did you know that for headache sufferers
HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY (HBOT):

• Creates temporary vasoconstriction to reduce headaches and supersaturate brain tissue with increased oxygen.
• Decreases inflammation.
• Stops cell death.
• Creates an increase in the rate of energy-producing and neurotransmitter-related metabolic reactions in the brain which require molecular oxygen.
• As Dr Paul Harch says: “HBOT is laying the biological foundation and the peripheral enhancements… HBOT Is a treatment for wounds of any location of any duration including the brain”

HBOT therapy is based on a “simple” idea: Oxygen can be used therapeutically for a wide range of conditions where tissues have been damaged by oxygen deprivation. Restore that oxygen, goes the logical thinking, and you can restore much of the lost function.

As Dr. Paul Harch says, if a migraine headache is the result of a wound or injury to the brain (traumatic brain injury, toxic brain injury, etc.), regardless of the date of occurrence, HBOT is, with many patients, reducing, reversing, and eliminating many of these symptoms.(3)

HBOT delivered at the time of an acute migraine can abort symptoms by constricting the dilated blood vessels that cause a migraine’s pulsing sensation.(4), (5)

In a preliminary report studying 20 migraineurs, the patients receiving HBOT had significant relief of headache symptoms.

Please read this study showing that there is evidence for HBOT for acute migraines or cluster headaches as well as supplemental oxygen in cluster headaches.(6)

For more supportive research, please read,

https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Migraine-Information-Page

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/migraine-headache/symptoms-causes/syc20360201

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26709672

Treating Cluster Headaches with Oxygen (7)

Cluster headaches also called suicide or alarm clock headaches (9) appear in cyclical patterns or clusters and are one of the most painful headaches after migraines. Cluster Headaches;

• Are usually one-sided.
• Occur around or in the eye but may radiate to other areas of your face, head, neck and shoulders.
• Impacts 1 out of 1,000 adults.
• Can last from 15 minutes up to 3 hours.
• Can occur daily.
• Can go on for years without remission.(8)

In this Cochran study in 2015, Five trials (103 participants) compared HBOT versus sham therapy for acute migraine, two trials evaluated HBOT for cluster headache
(29 participants).(9)

In a different randomized trial of 109 adults at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, England, patients with cluster headaches were treated at symptom onset using inhaled high-flow oxygen compared with placebo. The patients were more likely to result in being pain-free at 15 minutes.(10)

Daughter finds relief from Daily Cluster Headaches
with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Rich Garcia, suffering from cluster headaches,
writes of his experience at Advanced Hyperbaric Recovery;
I literally would not be alive today if it weren’t for this facility. It is hard to imagine any other facility having a more caring, knowledgeable and comforting staff. If you are at the end of your rope with cluster headaches, don’t walk, RUN! to Advanced Hyperbaric Recovery (AHR) in Marin County, CA..
Excruciating cluster headaches were ruining my life. I had become completely debilitated in unrelenting pain. Medications were not working on me as they had in the past. I even called friends over to pray with me, as I felt, I could not go on or live in acute pain, much longer.

After trying everything else my physicians had to offer, a new physician suggested I try HBOT. I did my research and flew out from Texas to California to come to what I feel is the BEST facility for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.

I met with the Program Director, Janine Thill and immediately she helped me to see there truly was hope. She reminded me that this would require commitment and diligence from everyone involved. After meeting with Dr. Chan, AHR’s Medical Director, I began treatments.
Advanced Hyperbaric are an award winning hyperbaric facility, their medical grade chambers were the largest in size, they have been in business for 7+ years, (written in 2013) perfect safety record…all this and more put my panicked, pain riddled, mind at ease.

HBOT therapy was a slow process. The first week, I was exhausted, but my headaches were not as severe. The second week, I had hours with no pain at all, before it came back. The third week I went a day without a headache, my clarity, and thinking improved and my energy increased!
By the end of my therapy I noticed that my anxiety was almost gone, and I even started sleeping better. I am so thankful now to be PAIN FREE, no headaches for weeks now, I have been able to return to work and I am taking care of my family and extended family. Its simply a miracle.

HBOT is an alternative approach for headaches. Our physician consults with each of our patients to determine the proper protocol delivered. We offer subjective experience from treatment with HBOT.
The pressurized environment helps to reduce swelling and discomfort, while providing all tissues throughout the body with at least 10-30 times its normal supply of oxygen to help repair tissue damaged by the original occlusion or subsequent hypoxic condition. Hyperbaric Oxygenation (HBOT) directly increases the saturation of tissue oxygenation, slowing and reversing hypoxic induced apoptosis – restoring blood supply to the compromised region by the development of new capillary networks (neovascularization) enabling the body to alter the course and impact of the disease process. (11)
More reasons Why Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is effective:
Read these 22 reasons that HBOT can help you.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved treatment for 13 health indications. Most insurance companies reimburse these indications when prescribed by a Physician.
Our award winning facility is conveniently located 10 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge near beautiful San Francisco. We would love for you to come and tour our facility.

HBOT is given in a hard steel medical grade device called a Hyperbaric chamber.
We charge a fraction of the cost, using the same style chambers as a hospital-based Hyperbaric unit. Our Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) uses 100% medical grade oxygen in hard steel chambers to pressurize our patients at greater than atmospheric pressure. HBOT is designed to increase the supply of oxygen and reverse hypoxia to areas in the body that are not responding to other treatments.(12)

If YOU or anyone in your family or anyone in your community might be a candidate,
whose quality of life may be greatly improved with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy,
Please consider this remarkable medicine today.
Call us today for more information or to schedule a consultation with our Medical Hyperbaric Physician.
415-785-8652

Advanced Hyperbaric Medical Director, Jacqueline S. Chan, DO
Hyperbaric Physician is Board Certified in Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and Family Practice

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Bladder Cancer Stat facts; Males are more often affected than females. In the United States, in 2019, 80,470 cases and 17,670 deaths were expected making it the 6th most common type of cancer in the region. (1)

“New research helps explain why men are three to five times more likely to develop bladder cancer than women.”
PhD. Researchers and associate surgeons in the urology department at Boston Children’s Hospital, Dr. Satoshi Kaneko and Zue Sean Li, provide new insight into disparities in cancer risk and mortality between males and females. Their findings suggest that an X-chromosome-linked gene called KDM6A is potential new biomarker that can predict prognosis for patients with bladder cancer and could even set the stage for future therapies.(1)

Bladder cancer begins in cells in the urothelial lining of the bladder.
The most common symptom of bladder cancer is bleeding in the urine called hematuria.

Several sites, including the National Cancer Institute, state cigarette smoking as the most significant risk factor for bladder cancer, with smokers three to four times more likely to get the disease than nonsmokers.(2)
Next risk factors are family history, prior radiation therapy, frequent bladder infections, and exposure to chemotherapy or other certain chemicals.(3)

Radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery and immunotherapy are standard treatments for bladder and other pelvic malignancies such as prostate, bladder, rectal, and cervical cancers.(3)
At Advanced Hyperbaric Recovery, patients are referred to us from their urologists post surgically and post radiation when they are in great pain and are not healing after pelvic cancers.

The FDA approves of HBOT for radiation induced hemorrhagic cystitis.
Radiation Cystitis can range from minor, temporary, irritative voiding symptoms and painless, microscopic hematuria to more severe complications, such as gross hematuria.

Radiation-damage of the bladder does not become clinically evident until six months after initiation of the radiotherapy. Irradiated tissue sustains damage that results in microscopic obliterative endarteritis and progressive arteriopathy leaving the affected tissue hypocellular, hypovascular, and ischemic. Collagen and cells are replaced during the healing process, but complete restoration is unlikely to occur. Primarily, the ischemic bladder mucosa may cause mucosal ulceration and bleeding. Bleeding may also occur as a consequence of the formation of structurally weak and brittle vessels that easily rupture. The use of hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT) in the treatment of tissue damaged by radiation was pioneered by Marx et al. who suggested that HBOT enhances healing of tissues subjected to radiation therapy.

Marx et al. were the first to describe the therapeutic effects of HBOT in humans – on patients having undergone protracted radiation therapy of the head and neck. In an animal study predating the human study, the authors showed that animals subjected 100% O2 in a hyperbaric environment had an 8-9 times higher vascular density in irradiated tissue compared to both a normobaric group and an air-breathing control group. A four-year follow-up study showed that the angiogenic effect was long lasting. Oxygen in hyperbaric conditions leads to an increase of oxygen levels in tissues resulting in angiogenesis, increased collagen formation, and an increased number of fibroblasts. The angiogenesis is correlated, at least in part, to the macrophages of the affected tissue, which react to the steep oxygen gradient achieved in a hyperbaric environment. The increase in fibroblasts and collagen creates a connective tissue framework for the new vessels. The elevated level of oxygen also supports the regeneration of damaged tissue, as well as reducing edema, necrosis, and leukocytic infiltration. (6)




The pressurized environment helps to reduce swelling and discomfort, while providing the body with at least 10-15 times its normal supply of oxygen to help repair tissue damaged by the original occlusion or subsequent hypoxic condition. Hyperbaric Oxygenation (HBOT) directly increases the saturation of tissue oxygenation, slowing and reversing hypoxic induced apoptosis – restoring blood supply to the compromised region by the development of new capillary networks (neovascularization) enabling the body to alter the course and impact of the disease process. (7)

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is defined by The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society (UHMS.org), as breathing 100% oxygen at a pressure greater than one atmosphere absolute (ATA).
The UHMS states that Hyperbaric oxygen is among the most studied and frequently reported applications in the treatment of delayed radiation injuries.Please read the implications and science here.



Our Patient obtains relief from post radiation cystitis symptoms from
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

In an eleven year follow up study done in 2012 by Drs Nakata et al., the doctors followed prostate cancer patients who suffered radiation induced cystitis. Prostate Cancer is the 2nd most prominent malignancy in Japan.
Comparison of late morbidity scores before and 11+ years after HBO therapy showed significant improvement. Early application of HBO treatment after the onset of hematuria appears to produce favorable outcome.(10)
Because the success depends on how quickly a patient can receive HBOT, approx 50% of prostate cancer patients who have radiation-induced hematuria treated with HBOT have resolution of their hematuria.(11)
HBOT is efficacious in the short and long term, with minimal side effects.(12)

Read about David Wolfe, a Pennsylvania resident, who recovers post radiation from anal cancer when nothing else worked.
More reasons Why Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is effective:
Read these 22 reasons that HBOT can help you.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved treatment for 13 health indications. Most insurance companies reimburse these indications when prescribed by a Physician.
Our award winning facility is conveniently located 10 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge near beautiful San Francisco. We would love for you to come and tour our facility.

HBOT is given in a hard steel medical grade device called a Hyperbaric chamber.
We charge a fraction of the cost, using the same style chambers as a hospital-based Hyperbaric unit. Our Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) uses 100% medical grade oxygen in hard steel chambers to pressurize our patients at greater than atmospheric pressure. HBOT is designed to increase the supply of oxygen and reverse hypoxia to areas in the body that are not responding to other treatments.(15)

Please join our dear friend and colleague, Dr. Carmine Van Deven, D.O., as he explores root causes of, natural cures and self care tips for headaches.
If YOU or anyone in your family or anyone in your community might be a candidate,
whose quality of life may be greatly improved with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy,
Please consider this remarkable medicine today.
Call us today for more information or to schedule a consultation with our Medical Hyperbaric Physician.
415-785-8652

Advanced Hyperbaric Medical Director, Jacqueline S. Chan, DO
Hyperbaric Physician is Board Certified in Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and Family Practice

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March is National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a neurological disorder that affects 1 in 303 children in the U.S. with 8,000 new cases every year, making it the most devastating motor disability in childhood. This tragic disorder affects movement, posture and other motor skills and may result in the need life-long care. (1)
True Medical grade Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) especially early on can help change the trajectory of a CP child’s life. Please read on! ……

CP is caused by abnormal development of the brain or damage to the developing brain that affects a child’s ability to control his or her muscles. There are several possible causes for this abnormality to the brain to occur.

The brain damage that leads to CP can happen any time before birth up to the first years of a child’s life, while the brain is still developing. (2) This brain damage can also develop during a long prolonged or difficult birth where the baby also may have a lack of oxygen.

The injury of CP manifests as problems with tone (muscle stiffness or floppiness), uncontrollable movement (dyskinesia), and poor balance and coordination (ataxia). There are four main types of CP.

• Spastic – affects 80% of patients and is characterized by increased muscle tone, stiffness, tightness of two or more limbs: one side, the legs, or all four arms and legs
• Dyskinetic – problems controlling movement; writhing, rapid, or jerky movements and varying tone are common
• Ataxic – problems with balance and coordination
• Mixed – a combination of the other 3 types

CP children also have other problems that are the result of the injury process affecting wider areas of the brain.

These include

• Problems with cognition
• Ophthalmologic impairments
• Hearing impairments
• Emotion, behavior
• Autonomic function (constipation, poor circulation) (2)

The above multiple problems and potential disabilities may include mental retardation, epilepsy as well as feeding difficulties.
Screening for these conditions should be part of the initial assessment. (5)

Management is multidisciplinary and requiring a multi level therapeutic team as well the entire family support network.

When Sammy came to us, he was without any motor control, unable to hold up his own head, unable to sit up. He cried day and night.
Sammy is now a happy little man who sleeps through the night. Over a 3 year period, Sammy received 172 HBOT treatments alongside his
multidisciplinary therapy regiment.
Now Sammy can sit up, scoot, reach out to hold his cup,
partially feed himself and verbalize many words. He loves music.
This latest video made us cry tears of JOY!
At 5 1/2 years old Sammy is seen here demonstrating great improvement.
As you can hear, Sammy receives extensive support from his loving family network.
Sammy continues to make improvements with every HBOT treatment set and is one of many more children in need of more HBOT therapy.
A first study with HBOT for children with Cerebral Palsy;
10 years in the making.

The study covers a 10 year span from 1996 and 2007 comparing the efficacy of intensive versus nonintensive rehabilitative treatment in children with cerebral palsy and the use of HBOT.
There were 150 children in four different groups. Each child received intensive rehabilitation care by the same therapist team, at the same center, using the same protocol, the same duration of follow. (1), (2)
This study is the first empirical study recognized by the Undersea Hyperbaric Medicine Society (UHMS) that demonstrates the efficacy for HBOT.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is one of several additional interventions to assist in the child or adult with chronic CP’s quality of life. (2)

Effected improvements in tests of gross and fine motor skills as well as decreased spasticity and improved visual capability are tested. (3)
HBO has been advocated for the improvement of both functional and cognitive ability. (7)

Many studies are done, and what is true is that there is much more to a child’s development and their parents experience than can be reported in a study.
A Letter to the Editor following a study done in 2001 it states; “It is important to state that everyone who was involved agreed that their improvements were statistically and clinically very significant. Statistics never reveals the whole picture. (4)
During this study (in Lancet above) we have seen many tremendous functional improvements. At an age where we did not expect any dramatic changes, some children started to walk, to speak, or to sit for the first time in their lives.” and the letter goes on.

(Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) therapy for children with cerebral palsy (CP) is not new. This following study evaluated the effects of HBO2 therapy for 25 children, ages 5.6 +/- 1.6 yr with a functional diagnosis of spastic diplegic CP. Pre- and post-HBO2 evaluations consisted of the following measures: gross motor function measure (GMFM), fine motor function (Jebsen test for hand function), spasticity (modified Ashworth scale), video analysis, and parental questionnaire. The protocol for HBO2 therapy was 20 treatments for 60 min.
Results showed improved GMFM in three of the five items in the GMFM test, improved fine motor function in three of the six hand tests, reduced spasticity in three of four muscle groups when assessed by a physician specializing in CP, and improvements for four of nine questions posed to parents. (2)

Testimony from one mother regarding her 16 month old baby girl; (names are withheld)

We are now half-way through. It’s difficult to attribute our baby girl’s changes uniquely to HBOT as we are using HBOT in conjunction with other treatments and therapies but she has vastly improved since she has started the treatment: she is more present and alert, her vision is greatly improved (she focuses better, tracks better, smiles back at strangers), her tone and head control are stronger, she moves a lot more and started doing new things: touching her knees first and now started to play with her feet, better hand control when playing with her toys. She also improved her cough and how she manages her secretions. Our baby’s biggest issues are to be able to protect her airways and manage her secretions. When she is sick and must constantly fight to breathe, she cannot put much energy into learning how to move better and develop. HBOT gives her more energy to learn when doing therapies and also prevented her to be very sick when everybody got a cold and her sister was sick at home.

Yes! I Definitely recommend HBOT for anyone with kids of any age with what ever degree of CP. Its definitely worth investing in, as I have only seen positive outcomes so far. It has also been beneficial for me. I have had 20 dives (out of the 40 dive proven protocol) with our baby and I feel more full of energy than I have in a long time. Its been a huge support in helping myself to maintain my own health and wellbeing so I can be strong and present for my daughter. Having a child with very special needs can be exhausting and being able to help my daughter while also helping myself is amazing. Also my skin has become soft and elastic, the hairline fracture in my foot which would niggle from time to time is no longer noticeable and I really feel younger! ANONYMOUS, Netherlands

Michel Nadeau, who has cerebral palsy was once only wheel chair bound. Seen here performing breakdance moves at his Pincourt home.

Montreal residents; twin brothers, Michel and Matt Nadeau, were born with CP resulting from brain damage due to a lack of oxygen before birth. Read more about their very rare birth and their challenges. Mother, Claudine Lanoix, their advocate, wanted them to undergo hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which has shown positive results for people with cerebral palsy. Because of her very positive experience having her sons treated, she is now a Certified Hyperbaric Technician who runs the Island Hyperbaric Centre in Pincourt.

Hear a testimony of Marley’s mother. Marley, born with CP; hearing impairment, behavior and cognitive difficulties, kidney disease, all improved with HBOT.
Benefits of HBOT for CP include the following;
ENHANCE NEUROLOGICAL REPAIR AND REGENERATION WITH HBOT

• Attenuates the Effects of Hypoxia on the Neonatal Brain
• Promotes Neurogenesis
• Moderates Mitochondrial Disorders
• Enhances Stem Cell Mobilization and Proliferation
• Increases Penumbra Tissue Recovery
• Escalates Neuroplasticity

IMPROVE OVERALL FUNCTION WITH HBOT

• Advances Cognitive Function
• Improves Gross/Fine Motor Skills
• Enhances Speech & Language
• Alleviates Spasticity
• Lessens Frequence of Seizures
• Stimulates Better Eye Contact
• Improves Balance & Walking

Improvement is often subjective as reported by family members.

Dr. Giussippina Benincasa-Feingold MD
Dr. Giussippina Benincasa-Feingold MD, a pediatrician who worked in a pediatric emergency room; mother of 5. In 1996 she gave birth to a gorgeous baby, who would be diagnosed with CP and would suffer slow to no improvements.
Dr. Feingold was told about HBOT by her own mother. She disregarded HBOT for CP, calling it absurd. In her words “my mother would constantly badger me to try HBOT, and I finally gave in.”
At 3 1/2 years old, daughter Elisa began HBOT. After 12 treatments, the improvements were so dramatic that Dr. Feingold became convinced. During a 6 month period, daughter, Elisa received 120 treatments. That summer she had developed more than 1000 words and was actually making three-word sentences. She became completely toilet trained and, for the very first time since she was born, mom says, “I felt that I had a daughter!”
Read more of our colleague and amazing parent, Dr. Feingold.

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More reasons Why Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is effective:
Read these 22 reasons that HBOT can help you.
For wound healing, HBOT will increase growth factors, endothelial progenaitor cells (EPCs), and stem cell production. (13)
HBOT is given in a hard steel medical grade device called a Hyperbaric chamber. HBOT has been defined by The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society, as breathing 100% oxygen at a pressure greater than one atmosphere absolute (ATA). (14)

Our award winning facility is conveniently located 10 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge near beautiful San Francisco. We would love for you to come and tour our facility.

We charge a fraction of the cost, using the same style chambers as a hospital-based Hyperbaric unit.
If YOU or anyone in your family or anyone in your community might be a candidate,
whose quality of life may be greatly improved with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy,
Please consider this remarkable medicine today.
Call us today for more information or to schedule a consultation with our Medical Hyperbaric Physician.
415-785-8652

Advanced Hyperbaric Medical Director, Jacqueline S. Chan, DO
Hyperbaric Physician is Board Certified in Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and Family Practice

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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) may be able
to benefit these Cardiac Complications:

• Historically used in Cardiac Surgery as early as the 1600’s
• Aiding tissue hypoxia following heart attack or prolonged cardiac surgeries
• Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)
• Cardiac Air Embolism
• Sternal Infection and Osteomylitits following Cardiac Surgery
• Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia (ARVD) (2)

One of the earliest indications using HBOT in cardiovascular surgery was in 1960 by a Dutch surgeon named Boerema (1).
A major strategy during cardiac surgery is managing to supply the body with enough oxygen while potentially stopping the heart and correcting the anomaly.

In a famous study by Boerema et al (2) they showed that animals can survive without blood cells while in a hyperbaric chamber. During this time without their blood, their EEG’s showed no pathological stress or changes and their circulation and blood pressure remained normal as a result of enough oxygen to maintain aerobic metabolism. After re-infusion of their blood, the animals, (pigs) lived normal playful lives.
Resulting from this research in the 1960’s, several countries designed HBO operating “theatres” specifically used for cardiac surgeries where mortality figures were lower than those reported without HBO.

Such was the case with Janet. She was born with a life-threatening condition called aortic valve stenosis, which blocks blood flow across the aortic valve. HBOT SAVED HER LIFE.
The Boston Children’s hyperbaric chamber remained in use until 1974, when rapidly advancing innovations such as the heart-lung bypass made it safe to operate on infants in normal operating rooms. But back in 1964, it was the cutting-edge hyperbaric chamber that gave infants a special chance at having corrective heart surgery.


Prior to a heart attack there will be plaque buildup in major coronary arteries preventing blood flow and oxygen to the heart. Hypoxia or lack of oxygen will cause a cascade of sequelae and potential injury to the heart. What may occur involves damage to cellular metabolism or to mitochondrial function. The changes are extensive and impact the body both micro and macro. (4)

Tissue hypoxia is often amenable to HBO therapy. (pg. 39, Jain Sixth ed.) In the management of disease resulting in tissue hypoxia, HBOT will supersaturate the plasma and the extracellular fluid; Henry’s Law. (5)


Acute coronary syndrome (ACS), includes acute myocardial infarction and unstable angina, is common and may prove fatal. HBOT will improve oxygen supply to the threatened heart and may reduce the volume of heart muscle that perishes. (6)

The main application of HBOT for ACS:

• Extensive heart muscle damage indicated by lab work showing lesser rise in muscle enzyme.
• Individual risk of major adverse coronary events and dysrhythmias reduced following HBOT
• An increase in pain relief with HBOT

As a Harvard Heart Letter From Harvard Health Medical publishing states, “Cancer treatment can be the proverbial double-edged sword. Radiation therapy and chemotherapy are increasing the number of people who survive cancer. However, they can also cause these same people to develop cardiovascular disease.”

“Radiation therapy can cause heart attack, heart failure, and arrhythmias. Traditional and novel chemotherapy agents can damage the heart or peripheral blood vessels, or cause problems with clotting or blood lipids. Some serious cardiovascular effects occur while radiation or chemotherapy is being given; others appear long after cancer has become a distant memory.” Read More….

Massive arterial air embolism is a rare but devastating complication of cardiac operations. Several treatment modalities have been proposed, but hyperbaric oxygen is the specific therapy.
All 5 patients who were treated within 3 hours from the operation and 50% (2 of 4 patients) of those patients treated 3 to 5 hours from operation experienced a full neurologic recovery. With a delay of 9 to 20 hours, only 1 of 8 patients had a full neurologic recovery.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy should be administered as soon as possible after massive arterial air embolism during cardiac operations. (7)
Another study; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5139121/
We are learning more and more from the successes of the treatment of damaged skin tissues with HBOT.
Because there is often scarring in the chest and leg during bypass surgery, in all likelihood HBOT would aid in healing this surgical scarring.

• HBOT boosts the body with anti inflammatory cellular components and pro immune responses that protect against infection. (8)
• HBOT supports in wound healing by supporting the immune system and will increase anti inflammatory proving to increase stem cell count by 8-fold.
• HBOT also supports angiogenesis bringing new vascularization to wound healing at tissue and organ levels. (9, 10)

Also, there is an enormous benefit of preventing or successfully treating the neurological injury that these surgeries can cause.



ARVD Heart Condition



Post Surgical HBOT
HBOT as an adjunctive treatment for sternal infection and osteomyelitis after sternotomy and cardiothoracic surgery (11)
More reasons Why Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is effective:
Read these 22 reasons that HBOT can help you.
For wound healing, HBOT will increase growth factors, endothelial progenaitor cells (EPCs), and stem cell production. (13)
HBOT is given in a hard steel medical grade device called a Hyperbaric chamber. HBOT has been defined by The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society, as breathing 100% oxygen at a pressure greater than one atmosphere absolute (ATA). (14)

Our award winning facility is conveniently located 10 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge near beautiful San Francisco. We would love for you to come and tour our facility.

We charge a fraction of the cost, using the same style chambers as a hospital-based Hyperbaric unit.

Insurance will often pay for post radiation therapy damage. (15) If you think your radiation therapy for breast or throat cancers may have led to cardiac diseases, (16) please contact your physician for assistance. Please note that an ejection fraction of greater than 30% is required for our cardiac patients.
If YOU or anyone in your family or anyone in your community might be a candidate,
whose quality of life may be greatly improved with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy,
Please consider this remarkable medicine today.
Call us today for more information or to schedule a consultation with our Medical Hyperbaric Physician.
415-785-8652

Advanced Hyperbaric Medical Director, Jacqueline S. Chan, DO
Hyperbaric Physician is Board Certified in Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and Family Practice

Help us alleviate suffering, save or change a life, and especially
improve quality of life for our local Bay Area Neighbors!
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Medical Grade Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) naturally:

According to a Case Study by Stephen Thom, MD, Ph.D., et al. at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, it is determined that a course of 20 hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatments will mobilize and increase the number of circulating stem cells into human’s and animal’s bodies. (1)

Stem cells, called mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) exist in the bone marrow of humans and animals and are crucial to injury repair.
These MSCs are capable of changing their nature to become part of many different organs and tissues. In response to injury, these MSCs mobilize from the bone marrow to the injury site where they differentiate into cells that assist in that specific healing process.

In the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Study, Dr. Thom states, “this (HBOT) is the safest way clinically to increase stem cell circulation, far safer than any of the pharmaceutical options,” he further states “this study provides information on the fundamental mechanisms for hyperbaric oxygen and offers a new theoretical therapeutic option for mobilizing stem cells.” (2)

HBOT supports the body’s production and mobilization
of these very biologically versatile and potent stem cells.

Drugs used with stem cell injections can be associated with a host of side effects, whereas HBOT carries NONE of such side effects.

HBOT Improves Injected Stem Cell Viability

HBOT has also been used successfully in conjunction with stem cell injections to optimize the success rate of the procedure. HBOT helps to prepare the groundwork deep into injured tissues for a greater implantation effect of the stem cells . (3), (4)

Because of the Penn State study, patients who are at risk for osteoradionecrosis are referred to receive HBOT at facilities such as ours; Advanced Hyperbaric Recovery for prophylactic HBO treatments.




PEOPLE WHO MIGHT BENEFIT FROM HBOT and STEM CELLS

• Anyone suffering injury from repetitive motion.
• Car accident or any accident victim.
• Sports injury.
• Post cardiac, plastic or other surgeries or the prevention of surgeries.
• Those with Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurological Conditions.

HBOT is used for :

• Tissue O2 enhancement. (5)
• New vascularization and new tissue formation. (6)
• Anti inflammatory effect. (7)
• Anti-apoptotic effect. Gene regulation; to include, build up information exchange to teach the host cell to correct itself as much as possible. (8)
• Donor to host stem cell adhesion.(9), (10)

HBOT; Oxygen and Wound Healing Stimulate Stem Cell Success (11)

Patient Testimonial
Stem Cells to Avoid Knee Replacement

The Michael J Fox Foundation funded an recent research study (12) to engineer dopamine neurons, which degenerate and die in Parkinson’s disease, from skin and blood stem cells. Researchers are attempting to use these neuronal stem cells to replace what is lost in Parkinson’s and restore motor function. (13)

For Fun; A great example of Stem Cell success is seen in our little reptiles; salamanders are billionaires when it comes to their stem cell bank account.
Unlike humans, salamanders regenerate their entire limbs when they get damaged or cut off.

Physiological Basis Of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
For Ophthalmology

Sequelae of the eye can cause devastating vision loss and blindness as well as loss of independence severely impacting any individual, their family and the health care system.

The conditions for which HBO therapy has shown clear scientific evidence are:

• • Decompression sickness or arterial gas embolism with visual signs or symptoms. (1)

• • Central retinal artery occlusion.

• • Ocular and periocular gas gangrene.

• • Cerebro-rhino-orbital mucormycosis.

• • Periocular necrotizing fasciitis.

• • Carbon monoxide poisoning with visual sequelae.

• • Radiation optic neuropathy.

• • Radiation or mitomycin C-induced scleral necrosis.

• • Periorbital reconstructive surgery.

• Radiation induced macular ischemia. (2)

The authors then suggest that several other ocular disorders, such as macular degeneration and others, including some causing vision loss, which may benefit from HBOT.
The range where HBO may be effective is broad; from ischemic events of the eye to periocular brown recluse spider envenomation.

At sea level (1.0 ATA), breathing room air, arterial PO2 is approximately 100 mmHg and hemoglobin saturation is approximately 100%. When breathing 100% oxygen at greater pressures than 1.0 ATA, this additional oxygen supersaturates the hemoglobin of the red blood cells forcing the oxygen to dissolve into plasma, (3) tissues, organs (here we include our eyes) to create microvasularization or angiogenesis.

The arterial supply to the eye is via the ophthalmic artery, a branch of the internal carotid artery.
The ophthalmic artery branches to supply areas around the eyes including the optic nerve. (4)


A Stroke to the Eye; Central Retinal Artery Occlusion (CRAO)
This beautiful photo shows the central retinal artery with it’s branches around the eye.

CRAO is potentially devastating and IS an ocular emergency
because it can cause blindness.

CRAO is the ocular analogue of a cerebral stroke. (5) CRAO needs to follow the same principles of treatment as any other vascular end organ ischemic disease. That is, to attempt to reperfuse ischemic tissue as quickly as possible and to prevent a cascade of secondary inflammatory events early.
As stated earlier, the retina has a dual blood supply. HBOT may enable the secondary, choroidal circulation to supply the oxygen needs of the entire retina in CRAO. Since CRAO is often transient, this phenomenon many enable the retina to survive the period of occluded blood flow.
Retinal venous hemoglobin oxygen saturation has been shown to increase from 58% (breathing room air) to 94% in 100% hyperbaric oxygen environment. (6)

HBOT is considered acceptable, safe and effective and will assist to increase the partial pressure of oxygen delivery to ischemic tissue until spontaneous or assisted reperfusion occurs.

Because vision is an emergency, best results for vision restoration occur when oxygen therapy is given within the first 8 hours of vision loss and continued till vision resumes. Good results have also been seen if HBOT is administered within the first 24 hours. (7)
Minimal results may be seen after that depending on each patient’s own physiology.

Once Blind, her eye can now see. Read on for Lisa’s testimony of how Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy restored her vision after her “stroke to her eye.”
Additional occurrences such as post radiation injury and age-related macular degeneration can cause vision loss due to lack of oxygen and/or injury to the retina.

HBOT positively impacts the retinal cells increasing vision possibility. Because cells of the retina are specialized neurons; actually an extension of the brain, retinal cells respond to HBOT, similarly to brain-injured patients. Oxygen transport is significantly increased with HBOT, supersaturating these organs to bring healing and restoration of function. (8)

Post Radiation use of HBOT: Radiation-induced optic neuropathy (RON or RION) is one of the most common complications that may occur in patients treated with radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and other intracranial tumours. (9)
Vison loss is a devastating consequence post radiotherapy for treatment of these cancers. RON may occur months to years after the radiation treatment. To be most effective, HBO has to be initiated as soon after the onset of vision loss as possible. (10)

Here is a testimony of a 41 year old woman presenting with severe visual impairment after 4 years after her radiation therapy. HBOT was promptly instituted when other therapies failed and her vision as well as the quality of her life steadily started to improve. This improvement was documented and confirmed by her progressive recovery of the visual field in her right eye and the changes in her sequential follow-up MR scanning. (11)

HBOT and Macular Degeneration: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a significant cause of visual loss in the United States and Western Europe. As the population ages, the prevalence rate of advanced AMD is expected to double by 2030. A trial treating 14 patients with advanced AMD was done using HBOT for 60 minutes. To read more …. Significant improvements in visual acuity and/or visual field, with improvements in the activities of daily living were observed. HBOT in a monoplace chamber, combined with other therapies offers hope for additional benefit.
More reasons Why Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is effective:
Read these 22 reasons that HBOT can help you.
For wound healing, HBOT will increase growth factors, endothelial progenaitor cells (EPCs), and stem cell production. (12)
HBOT is given in a hard steel medical grade device called a Hyperbaric chamber. HBOT has been defined The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society, as breathing 100% oxygen at a pressure greater than one atmosphere absolute (ATA). (13)

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If YOU or anyone in your family
or anyone in your community might be a candidate, whose quality of life may be greatly improved for with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Please consider this remarkable medicine today.
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Advanced Hyperbaric Medical Director, Jacqueline S. Chan, DO
Hyperbaric Physician is Board Certified in Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and Family Practice
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