As portable hyperbaric oxygen chambers get a better reputation in the medical world, they also are becoming more widely used for those who simply want to be more healthy or fit. Athletes who have access to the chambers have made hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) a sort of trend.
Pro football star Darren Sharper has his own chamber and uses it in his own home. His is portable, so he is able to take it 酸素カプセル along when his teach travels. The set includes the foldable, zip-up chamber and an attached generator that pumps pure oxygen into it. Sharper has said that he uses it daily for between two and three hours and feels better because of it, more relaxed and more rested each morning. The athlete first used the hyperbaric chamber because of a knee injury, and has continued the HBOT ever since.
Hyperbaric therapy increases the ability of red blood cells and plasma to carry oxygen to the tissue in the body, healing any ruptures or tears and generally restoring the body to excellent condition very quickly. After time, muscle can be repaired and the brain will function better. Some athletes also use the hyperbaric chamber as an alternative to altitude training or blood replacement.
Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner who recently made a comeback and placed third in another Tour, has also used a portable hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Many cyclists train at higher altitudes, where there is less oxygen, so that the body feels like it has more than enough at regular elevations. Sometimes this makes an athlete's lung capacity greater, as well as simply enabling the red blood cells to carry more oxygen. Other athletes get blood taken out of their body and train with this deficiency, so that the body is used to working with less blood and oxygen, then get the blood replaced before a race or game. There are medications that replenish the oxygen supply in the blood, but these drugs are banned from most events, and hyperbaric chambers remain one of the most effective and well-regarded methods for athletic training.
Armstrong's career has been fraught with battles against cancer, but though doctors have experimented with hyperbaric chambers for cancer treatment, most experts agree that Armstrong was using the chamber for athletic reasons. HBOT has also delivered positive results for patients of strokes, autism, cerebral palsy, and many other diseases and afflictions. Not all doctors are ready to endorse HBOT in all cases, just because its effects could be different for any patient. But as its success rate climbs higher and higher, doctors are more readily recommending it for patients with diseases as well as athletes and anyone interested.
Hyperbaric medicine, also known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy is the medical use of oxygen at a higher than atmospheric pressure. Hyper means increased and baric relates to pressure. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) refers to intermittent treatment of the entire body with 100-percent oxygen at greater than normal atmospheric pressure. The earth's atmosphere normally exerts about 15 pounds per square inch of pressure at sea level. That pressure is defined as one atmosphere absolute (1 ATA). In the ambient atmosphere we normally breathe approximately 20 percent oxygen and 80 percent nitrogen. While undergoing HBOT, pressure is increased up to two times (2 ATA) in 100% oxygen.
This increased pressure, combined with an increase in oxygen to 100 percent, dissolves oxygen in the blood plasma and in all body cells, tissues and fluids at up to 10 times normal concentration-high enough to sustain life with no blood at all (from 20% to 100% oxygen is an increase of 5 times, from 1 ATA to 2 ATA can double this to a 10-fold increase).
Some of the many amazing benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber Therapy are that it :
* greatly increases oxygen concentration in all body tissues, even with reduced or blocked blood flow;
* stimulates the growth of new blood vessels to locations with reduced circulation, improving blood flow to areas with arterial blockage;
* causes a rebound arterial dilation, resulting in an increased blood vessel diameter greater than when therapy began, improving blood flow to compromised organs;
* stimulates an adaptive increase in superoxide dismutase (SOD), one of the body's principal, internally produced antioxidants and free radical scavengers; and,
* aids the treatment of infection by enhancing white blood cell action.
The use of increased atmospheric pressure for medical therapy has intrigued many physicians and scientists for hundreds of years. Though not new, HBOT has recently gained importance for treatment of chronic degenerative health problems related to atherosclerosis, stroke, peripheral vascular disease, diabetic ulcers, wound healing, cerebral palsy, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, macular degeneration, and many other disorders. Wherever blood flow and oxygen delivery to vital organs is reduced, function and healing can be aided with HBOT. When the brain is injured by stroke, CP, or trauma, HBOT may activate stunned parts of the brain to restore function.
Results can be dramatic. Patients with cerebral vascular disease commonly recover from complications of stroke more readily after HBOT. This is also true for potentially gangrenous legs and feet caused by blocked circulation, and for slow-healing diabetic ulcers. HBOT relieves pain, helps fight infection, and keeps threatened tissues alive.
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