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does anyone see the health benifits to diving besides me?
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well just recently I was looking at hbot treatment for different ailments
people were paying as much as $20,000.00 to breathe oxygen at 1.3 ppo2
for a series of forty dives in a zipper bag. no condition that would stop them from scuba diving
I just realized that i get that same treatment and have fun getting it
* Air or gas embolism;
* Carbon monoxide poisoning;
o Carbon monoxide poisoning complicated by cyanide poisoning;
* Clostridal myositis and myonecrosis (gas gangrene);
* Crush injury, compartment syndrome, and other acute traumatic ischemias;
* Decompression sickness;
* Enhancement of healing in selected problem wounds;
o Diabetically derived illness, such as diabetic foot, diabetic retinopathy,, diabetic nephropathy;[
* Exceptional blood loss (anemia);
* Intracranial abscess;
* Necrotizing soft tissue infections (necrotizing fasciitis);
* Osteomyelitis (refractory);
* Delayed radiation injury (soft tissue and bony necrosis);
* Skin grafts and flaps (compromised);
* Thermal burns.
In the United States, HBOT is recognized by Medicare as a reimbursable treatment for 14 UHMS "approved" conditions. A 1-hour HBOT session may cost between $108 to $250 in private clinics and over $1,000 in hospitals. U.S. physicians (M.D., D.C. & D.O.) may lawfully prescribe HBOT for "off-label" conditions such as Lyme Disease,[45] stroke,[46][47][48] and migraines.[49][50][51] Such patients are treated in outpatient clinics. In the United Kingdom most chambers are financed by the National Health Service, although some, such as those run by Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centres, are non-profit.
Other reported applications include:
* Autism. A small 2009 double-blind study of autistic children found that 40 hourly treatments of 24% oxygen at 1.3 atm provided significant improvement in the children's behavior immediately after treatment sessions. The study has not been independently confirmed; further studies are planned or in progress;
* Epidural abscesses;
* Certain kind of hearing loss;
* Radiation-induced hemorrhagic cystitis;
* Inflammatory bowel disease.