How Does Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Improve Your Physical Therapy & Chiropractic Treatment?
/Our therapists go the extra mile to make sure you receive the best quality of care at HealthFit. Even with all of the right methods and procedures, sometimes physiological limitations, like how well your body’s cells are functioning, can get in the way of full recovery.
There are practices that can help train your nervous system to work more efficiently, but how do we target your treatment at the cellular level?
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is the answer!
Combining the optimizing abilities of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, or HBOT, with your current Physical Therapy and Chiropractic Treatment can be very beneficial. The list of benefits is continuously growing, and newer studies highlight the impact HBOT has on healthcare treatments. Let us go over some of the more prevalent benefits of HBOT and how supplementing your physical therapy and chiropractic with HBOT can make a difference in reaching your health’s potential.
Can Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Help Acute or Chronic Injuries?
Your Hyperbaric Oxygen treatment may be designed around a plan of care specific to your injury to make sure you receive the most benefits. With the help of HBOT, we are able to provide you with a variety of approaches to treat your acute or chronic injuries from the inside out.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized environment. Your tissues need oxygen to heal, so by increasing your body’s normal intake of oxygen, this allows your cells to better use the nutrients already within your blood.
HBOT may help with:
· Accelerating Recovery
· Decreasing Inflammation and Edema
· Improving Cognitive Function
· Increasing Exercise Capacity
· Decreasing Blood Pressure in Hypertensive cases
· Increasing Painless Exercise Capacity
· Relieving Pain at Rest and With Activity
· And much more…
For acute injuries, HBOT can shorten your body’s inflammatory process and reduce pain. This helps your therapist target any underlying issues sooner and avoid further flare-ups of your injury. Normally, how you initially treat an injury can set the timeline for the rest of your recovery process, but by supplementing your treatment with HBOT in the early stages, your road to recovery can change significantly.
When it comes to chronic injuries, your treatment might consist largely of pain management. By supplementing your treatment with HBOT, you can “supercharge” your cells and provide them with additional nutrients. By giving your body tissues this advantage, a Physical Therapist or Chiropractor can better address the underlying causes of your pain so that you can start to progress towards a longer term solution.
Physiological improvement can be tricky to track, and sometimes it can be challenging to maintain consistency. Consistency is key to making progress in your treatment and can help determine the trajectory of your overall recovery. With HBOT, any changes seen can be tracked and adjusted to compliment your physical therapy or chiropractic sessions in order to maintain consistent improvement.
How Can HBOT Benefit Your Regular Rehabilitation Treatment?
If you’ve been getting Physical Therapy or other forms of manual treatment, you may have noticed some soreness after your sessions. Whether it’s from exercising or manual manipulations, your joints and muscles need time to adjust and recover from the new treatments you receive. This means that your body will try to use all the nutrients it can to fully recover. This is where HBOT can help supercharge your body’s own recovery rate and help you feel less sore after treatment.
Optimizing your oxygen intake by 400% creates an abundance of natural resources in your blood stream to help your muscles heal sooner. Oftentimes when you start to feel sore, your body can tend to avoid certain movements, and eventually this may lead to poor mobility habits. Soreness shouldn’t last for very long, but it can have an impact on your overall mobility.
Combining HBOT sessions with your therapy or exercise regimen may lead to a quicker recovery time and help with muscle development. HBOT can also help your tissues recover from any adjustments and manual manipulations you receive during your physical therapy or chiropractic session. Overall, the benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with physical therapy, chiropractic treatment and exercise may lead to a more comfortable recovery process.
How Does Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Improve Mental Clarity in a Physical Therapy or Chiropractic Setting?
It can be difficult to deal with an injury that is life changing. Sometimes it can feel discouraging to continue therapy if no significant improvements are made within a certain time frame. I’m here to tell you that:
· First, have some patience. You’ll reach your goals in due time.
· Second, HBOT can help reduce your overall healing time.
· Third, HBOT can also help improve your mental clarity.
Having a clear and positive mindset when approaching therapy makes all the difference. It can be challenging to focus on your therapy after sustaining a life changing injury that brings a great amount of stress to your daily life. Using HBOT to improve your mental clarity will lead to:
· Reducing brain fog.
· Reducing or getting rid of migraines and headaches.
· Better functionality throughout your entire body.
Coming to therapy or just going about your normal day with a clear mindset can lead to a more enjoyable process. Being able to think clearly and process all the advice your therapist gives could seem less like a chore and more like a step in the right direction. It can be challenging to make new accommodations to fix old habits your body has taken, and it might even seem unnecessary at times. However, mental clarity is vital to seeing the bigger picture of your recovery and could allow you to feel less stressed about it.
In the end, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can help increase how effective your Physical Therapy and Chiropractic Treatment is. The advantage of increasing your oxygen consumption allows your body to use an abundance of nutrients to speed up your recovery. Whether you’d like to expedite your natural healing or improve your mental clarity, just remember to Sit Back, Relax, and Breathe.
Don’t wait any longer to schedule your first Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy session today!
If you’d like to learn more about the HBOT or have any other questions about your health, contact our Front Desk by calling or texting (626) 365-1380.
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