Sadly, I just heard of a 'young man' (52 is still young
in my books!) who had a stroke about 3 years ago. The
doctors only gave him medications, which never helped him.
He ended losing everything...house, job, wife....when
he could have been taken care of if he only knew.
Hyperbaric chambers have been around for hundreds of years
and used for anything from acute mountain sickness, carbon
monoxide poisoning, to strokes and cancer.
I used to use these in my clinic in California and saw
excellent results with stroke patients. But most people
couldn't afford them at the hospitals since they charge
up to $300/treatment! Wow! And most stroke patients need
about 40 to 60 treatments. You do the math!
I had the mild portable chambers which everyone in the
medical community laughed at saying it wasn't strong
nearly as effective as the bigger, deeper compression
chambers.
The way I see it, any therapy that gets oxygen to the
brain will help. The key is to saturate the area that
has been damaged with enough oxygen so it can be healed.
It might take a little longer, but the mild chambers
worked just fine.
It should be required for all stroke patients, then
they'd have a fighting chance!
Until next time,
Dr. Judy
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