Baromedical provides specific health care services.
Hyperbaric oxygen
therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy promotes recovery from injuries by
reducing swelling, inflammation, pain and by oxygenating damaged
tissue. It reduces the need for pain medications and clears the body
from the medication byproducts.
In healthy
people oxygen reduces the effect of aging, cleans the body from toxins
and protects against it effect. Oxygen stimulation of stem cells
production and release is important new discovery for health
maintenance.
Wound care
Advanced wound care at
BaroMedical offers selection of most advanced and effective wound
dressings to speed up the healing and minimize pain (and need for pain
medication). Wound care is very efficient when used in
combination
with hyperbaric oxygen therapy and/or electrical stimulation. Wound
healing stages are changing faster in enriched oxygen environment.
Acute wounds in
a healthy person, such as due to trauma or post surgery,
follow phases of inflammation, proliferation, and maturation.
Hyperbaric
oxygen has distinct beneficial effect in each stage
promoting healing. Initially, reducing inflammation, swelling
and
pain thru vasoconstriction and immediate high amount of oxygen
to
initiate healing of the injured tissue without scarring.
Oxygen
stimulates release of growth factors and proliferation of neutrophils
and fibroblasts that synthesize collagen which is the major component
of acute wound connective tissue. Oxygen stimulates the budding and
growth of the new blood vessels - capillaries so called angiogenesis,
which further improve delivery of nutrients, oxygenation of tissue and
granulation. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used as preventive measure
and treatment of infection
and in people with poor circulation or systemic
disease (diabetes, multiple sclerosis, lupus).
Chronic wounds that have been locked in certain stage due
to infection, poor circulation (old age, chronic
problem diabetes
Electrical stimulation
Electrical
stimulation is the therapy where electrical currents are delivered trhu
the skin electrodes to activate muscle contractions or nerve
conduction. Small contractions improve muscle blood flow, relieving
spasm, pain and improving range of motion. When combined with
hyperbaric oxygen improved blood flow becomes supersaturated with
oxygen yielding higher effect and faster recovery than each
therapy on its own (ref). When nerve
is stimulated such as in people who lost the control of their muscles
(i.e. stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury) we can elicit a
functional movement. (pict. of Chan grasping a ball). The
mechanism is not clearly known, but the combination of nerve electrical
stimulation, physio and hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves the control of the movement,
reducing synergism, spasm, fatigue, allowing for selectivity,
repeatability and strength.
Mirociroculation
assessment
Microcirculation
is the network of the smallest of the blood vessels at
the end of arterial and venous system where the all important nutrient
exchange happens, important for the cell metabolism.
Assessment of the microcirculatoons is non-invasive, non
painful
and is very important in evaluating the progress and success of the
hyperbaric oxygen therapy and other treatment options.
