The Treatment of Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy (HBO) traditionally was in use for problems of scuba divers' decompression. Nevertheless, with the passage of time they discovered an immense quantity of medical utilities.

Lately, besides this medical utilities, they have discovered and developed a whole series of aesthetic treatments, the relaxation and the improvement of the quality of life.

This way, the Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy at present is in use principally in the following fields:

AESTHETICS AND WELLNESS

There are abundant hyperbaric chambers owners that undergoes to the Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy. Many people who are not already in the prime of life, tell that the treatment improves her livid and the physical and psychic performance. Some doctors think that the treatment revitalizes the organism of the oldest persons. The skin is strengthened and diminishes the flaccidity and the wrinkles since the production of collagen is increased. Many beneficial effects have observed in patients that they have been treated in hyperbaric chambers for specific diseases. Many refer to a general well-being: they sleep more deeply, do not get tired so much like before, and the nails and the skin turn out to be more brilliant and vital.

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PLASTIC AND AESTHETIC SURGERY

There exists another field that one finds between the aesthetics and the medicine and is that of the cosmetic surgery.
The use of the hyperbaric chamber in patients submitted to plastic surgery presents important benefits. Since it has been said previously it favors the production of collagen, but in addition it acts reducing the edemas, returning the vitality to the tissues and accelerating the cicatrization.

The high concentration of oxygen controls the possible infectious effect, producing an disinfectant, detoxify, anabolic and recovering effect.

Inside the cosmetic surgery it accelerates the patients' recovery submitted to facelift, peeling chemist or laser, surgery of bosoms, liposuction and reduction of strias. Especially, as for the areas submitted to liposuction, it produces a physiological drainage.

Prominent figures known as Madonna, Celine Dion or James Caan are already assiduous users of the hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

SPORTS APPLICATIONS

The oxygen is fundamental for the cicatrization of wounds as well as for the fractures.

The injuries of the sportsmen are characterized by damages in the tissues and swelling, preventing the normal flow of oxygen to the disabled zone. For what in the swollen areas there are produced cells that need a great quantity of oxygen.

With the OHB there is obtained an effective way of increasing sensitively the content of oxygen in the blood. Due to the fact that the body is submitted to a major pressure that the atmospheric one, the oxygen dissolved in the plasma increases in more than twenty times, with what the tissues obtain the quantity that they need and the recovery is faster.

Likewise, with the employment of the hyperbaric oxygenation for the not disabled sportsman, the immunological system fortifies, the mind becomes oxygenated, the concentration increases and the sportsman recovers faster after an effort.

This guarantees a significant increase in the physical condition. This is one of the motives for which athletes of international level have used this system.

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HYPERBARIC MEDICINE

The Hyperbaric Medicine is a branch of the General Medicine, and treats on all the hyperbaric treatments applied to improve infinity of illness. The OHB is based on the increase of the transport of oxygen by the plasma and this way to obtain a better availability on the tissue level. Several indications exist for which the hyperbaric chamber is urgent, and certain side effects that turn out to be very beneficial for the organism.

The different levels for the indication of the OHB are the following ones:

1. Preferential indications. In that the OHB constitutes the only effective treatment, or it possesses an essential effect, together with to other therapeutic interventions.

2. Complementary indications. Where the application of the HBO is neither indispensable nor essential, but it possesses a highly beneficial action well proved in clinical and experimental studies.

3. Experimental indications. Situations in which the HBO can have a therapeutic acceptable or interesting effect, in some aspect of the disease, based on a therapeutic consistent hypothesis. It's necessary, a system of control and evaluation of results defined and applicable, inside a context of controlled studies.

In medical Bases we can find these indications of the treatment of Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy for more than 10.000 deceases, demonstrating the efficiency of this treatment.

Among the principal effects of the HBO they are:
Contributes a major quantity of oxygen to the damaged tissues.
Increases the formation of blood glasses.
Accelerates the cicatrization of wounds.
Improves the control against the infections.
Preserves the damaged tissues.
Eliminates toxic substances in the organism.
Reduces the effects of the toxic substances.
Reduces or eliminates the obstructions in the tissues owed to gas bubbles.

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PHYSIOTHERAPY

In Physiotherapy we find another series of deceases as the arthritis, the degenerative osteoarthritis, the hemiplegics, in the sportsmen's rehabilitation and recovery of injuries, etc. In which his use is between the Hyperbaric Medicine, the traditional medicine and the patients' recovery.

In many countries the efficiency begins to be demonstrated of combining traditional treatments of physiotherapy, with hyperbaric treatments, increasing the speed of recovery, diminishing the pain of the patients and improving the results.