There was a FAR more fascinating aspect. My wife had two schwannoma cervical tumors removed a few years ago, and that delicate(!) operation left her with some balance and muscle feedback deficits. While she was on hyperbaric 100% oxygen, those deficits disappeared completely. The improvement was so striking that people who barely knew her mentioned it. She normally has difficulty walking, but now she was literally prancing and dancing like she was 30 years younger.
When she stopped the treatments the symptoms came back. It was no worse than before, but having been reminded how much she'd lost it put her in tears and modest depression for a couple of days.
Since that time I've been trying to find a site with true 100% oxygen-at-pressure that will give her a couple of weeks of treatment to see if we can replicate the results. I've offered to pay cash out of pocket. But so far no one will do it because "it's not an approved procedure for hyperbaric". Yeah, well, this is how unexpected discoveries occur!!! There might be a medical paper in this for someone, and I'm willing to pay CASH so there's zero cost for the facility. But so far the only takers are strip mall oxygen tokers who have those inflatable ~1.4 Bar partial O2 chambers and the "wear an oxygen mask with 10-12 of your closest friends in our room-sized tent" places. That will NOT replicate the conditions. We need the single-person, no mask, high pressure 100% oxygen chambers which are typically clear prone tubes. No takers yet, but my cash offer still stands.
