CONCUSSIONS CAN BE TREATED
We enroll our children in contact sports everyday and
with that bring a risk of injury. Recently, the news has highlighted
these injuries that occur; parents know that there are ways to help your
child stay healthy as well as avenues to help them heal if they are injured.
School sports definitely have their place in our lives. Sports
improve our children’s self esteem, creates innovation, promotes teamwork,
and supports strengthening their minds and bodies. The trick is how
do you keep your child safe and uninjured while they participate? Some
of the more obvious answers are ensuring your child listen to their coaches
and stretches effectively, warming up those muscles before heavy exercise;
eating a healthy diet with lots of hydration to support them during strenuous
activities; and getting the necessary daily vitamins to support strong bone
development and muscle repair. These suggestions are great to keep
your child healthy, but what do you do when your child has an accident and
is injured? As all parents do, we rush our kids to the necessary physicians
to have them treated. In many cases, we now have a disappointed child
that hates to be cooped up with recovery time while they miss a season of
sports and fun.
There is a solution! Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
is an effective treatment to aid healing and cut down recovery times. Whether your
child is suffering from minor injuries to something more severe, such
as a concussion, the benefits to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is endless. The list
of clinical information given below is about Hyperbarics as it pertains to
concussions, but the repairs to muscle or sports injuries are similar.
In 1982 Sukoff and Ragatz demonstrated that Hyperbaric
Oxygen Therapy, or HBOT, could reverse the effects of brain damage. This
same finding was duplicated in a study by Rockswold and his associates in
2001. According to Dr. Rockswold, “There's a direct correlation between
clinical outcome and the degree to which the brain's metabolism is restored.
In previous research we learned that the brain's energy production is improved
and maintained with hyperbaric oxygen treatment, but this study confirms
that hyperbaric oxygen treatment has a major impact in terms of increased
energy production."
At the Eighth World Congress of the International Brain
Injury Association, Dr. Paul Harch presented similar findings. Military veterans
with brain injuries were given HBOT only, and the results were impressive.
On average there was a 15 point increase in IQ within about one month of
starting treatment. In addition, there was a 51% decrease in depression,
and a 400% improvement in post-concussion symptoms such as headache and sleep
disturbances.
Dr. Daniel Amen has recently disclosed the results of research
performed with NFL players. More than 100 men were given studies to measure
the blood flow and electrical activity of the brain. They were also given
a group of tests to measure how well the brain was functioning. The conclusion:
football can lead to long term problems if not treated.
But the good news is that these effects can be reversed
or prevented, again duplicating the work presented by other researchers. Dr.
Amen used a combination of nutritional supplements, HBOT, and mental exercises
to help these men improve their brain function by up to 400%, thereby reversing
side effects and strengthening the mind and body.
Dr. Theodore Cole, Medical Director of Cincinnati Hyperbarics,
has seen similar outcomes: “Over the last ten years we’ve had
exceptional results using a combination of nutritional agents, Hyperbaric
Oxygen Therapy, and other approaches. Most people don’t realize
that even one concussion or sports related injury can produce life-long effects.
I suggest that anyone having any type of sports related injury be treated
as soon as possible.”
Contact our offices and we would be happy to discuss treatment
options.
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