Hyperbaric oxygen is the cleanest medicine in the world and makes perfect sense. HBOT, or hyperbaric oxygen treatment, has been around for decades, and is natural but versatile. It can be used on anything from chronic non-healing wounds to traumatic brain injuries—along with conditions such as cerebral palsy, autism, stroke, MS and Alzheimer’s.
So, why don’t people seem to know about it? Why is this extraordinarily effective treatment all but invisible in the public square? And why don’t more conventional medicine physicians refer patients who might benefit from treatment?
The answer will make sense to practitioners of integrated medicine, to people with a holistic perspective, and to those whose minds are open to alternative treatment and living a healthy lifestyle. Simply put, many with conventional medical backgrounds operate within a very narrow scope of practice, only recommending treatments based on expensive pharmacology or intrusive diagnostics. Sadly, some display bias, or worse, a kind of chosen ignorance of alternative perspectives. This situation leaves far too many patients and families suffering needlessly—without access to the health and comfort enhancing treatments they need to recover.
According to Eileen Geller, a Seattle area RN and a mother of a child who is currently being treated by Dr Paul Harch for a traumatic brain injury,
“Parents and family members trying to help an ill or injured loved one feel helpless in the face of the “we can’t do anything more” conventional medical model. We desperately want to help our loved ones recover, yet longstanding, effective options such as hyperbaric oxygen treatment are left off the table by our doctors and rehab specialists.”
Geller says she and her son traveled to New Orleans from Seattle for the treatment, “It’s been a year and half since his injury—we’ve been to more doctors than I can name. Nothing has helped. Thank God I found Harch Hyperbarics after reading an article in the Journal of Neurotrauma about the work he’s done treating brain injured veterans. After just a few hyperbaric oxygen treatments, my son’s vision, hearing, and balance have already improved. It’s amazing.”
Geller went on, “It has been impressive to discover how solid the science is on the effectiveness of hyperbaric medicine.” According to Geller, Dr Harch’s book, “The Oxygen Revolution,” is a must read for anyone curious about both the scientific and the personal side of hyperbaric oxygen treatment.
Geller has found inspiration from the fellow parents of ill children in Dr Harch’s waiting room. There, she has witnessed numerous circumstances where children and adults have evidenced improvement while receiving hyperbaric oxygen. One of the most extraordinary, according to Geller, was “an exquisitely beautiful little girl with fine features and a captivating personality, who also has cerebral palsy. The little girl’s ophthalmologists confirmed she was blind and would always be so. She was unable to sit up and seemed to have very little ability to interact. Now, well into her hyperbaric treatment, she can see almost perfectly out of her left eye and has some vision out of her right. (The ophthalmologist confirmed it: he’s never seen anything like it.) She can sit up, has stopped screaming in pain all night from abdominal pain that plagued her, and is interactive, engaged, and delightful.”
“Had I not been sitting in the waiting room speaking to her wonderful Mom each day, seeing and hearing about the progress, and holding this little girl in my arms, it might have been difficult to believe that such progress could be real. But it is.”
“If anyone is considering hyperbaric treatment for a loved one, they should come, meet Dr. Harch, and consider giving it a try. I’m certain they’ll be glad they did” said Geller.
For more information on the hyperbaric oxygen therapy offered by Dr Paul Harch at Harch Hyperbarics, Inc., please contact his office at (504) 309-4948 or refer to the website at www.hbot.com. To purchase his book, “The Oxygen Revolution,” please go to Amazon.com or your local bookstore/library.
