Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Park Avenue Extended Care features hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in Long Beach, NY, a highlighted modality in our skilled nursing facility for accelerating healing in wounds, infections, and neurological conditions. Our 5-star quality programs use FDA-approved chambers to deliver pressurized oxygen, benefiting diabetic, radiation, and off-label cases like stroke and TBI.
Overview of HBOT Treatment
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a treatment method that uses highly pressurized oxygen to speed up healing of certain injuries, infections, and disease conditions. This treatment has been FDA-approved for use in patients with several conditions, including carbon monoxide poisoning and severe burns, but has also proven effective in off-label treatments in numerous systems of the body.
Reasons and Benefits of HBOT
Hyperbaric oxygen treatments are used for a wide variety of purposes, frequently with great success. Although HBOT is commonly used to treat wounds, infections, and other temporary conditions, it can also help improve chronic neurological, vascular, and ophthalmic conditions by stimulating natural healing, reducing inflammation, and fighting infections.
FDA-Approved Uses
The most common uses of HBOT are for treating wounds that are not healing normally and certain types of toxicity. The FDA approves HBOT as a method of treatment for: Air or gas embolism, Carbon monoxide poisoning, Crush injury, Decompression sickness (the bends), Healing of diabetic wounds, Anemia, Intracranial abscess, Necrotizing fasciitis, Osteomyelitis (bone infection), Radiation injury, Skin grafts, Serious burns.