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By Miranda Orso, Communications Associate What brought you here today? Is it the constant ups and downs of fighting Lyme disease? Has there been nothing short of, well nothing, to help you manage the Long COVID symptoms still affecting your body? Some might simply say, pain.  You’re probably a little confused about what Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) even is, and what it can do for you or someone close to you. That’s completely common. Before joining the team at Hyperbaric Vermont, I knew very little about the treatment myself. However, from the moment I started learning about HBOT, I quickly saw something that’s easily changing, and in some cases, saving lives.  What is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy? Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is, simply, the medical use of oxygen at higher than normal atmospheric pressure. Increased pressure and oxygen levels have potent physical effects, and research demonstrates that hyperbaric oxygen therapy: How Does It Work? Normally, when you breathe air, the oxygen is picked up in your lungs by your red blood cells and taken throughout your body through your network of arteries. In a hyperbaric chamber, we gently increase the pressure and you breathe 95% pure oxygen. The increased pressure in […]

Hyperbaric Vermont: Your Source For Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy In Vermont ...

September is Healthy Aging Month and reminds us all that having our health is having everything! Keeping ourselves physically fit and eating properly helps to keep disease at bay. When we have poor health habits, we are much more prone to disease and those habits create a greater risk for sickness as we age. Watch Dr. Janet Cellar, DNP from Emory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center explains what you can do to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

Healthy Aging

May is Stroke and Lyme Awareness Month! Learn how HBOT treats both Stroke and Lyme Disease! View research studies and results showing how HBOT improves the healing of the brain in Stroke Patients. Also, read Lindsey’s journey through being diagnosed with Lyme and how she healed herself. Happy Reading! https://us12.campaign-archive.com/?u=11a9e8171ebdb938bfd19b1a8&id=f40cb9ee1c Check out our Research and Resources Page for lots more important information about these two debilitating diseases…..https://hyperbaricvermont.org/research-and-resources/

May is Stroke and Lyme Awareness Month!

  HBOT helps patients with severe depression! Studies suggest that mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy significantly improved anxiety, depression and sleeping quality, increasing the duration from 2 to 3 hours of sleep prior to admission to about 5 hours a night. Sleep deprivation can affect the magnitude of a Parkinson’s patients depression. Learn more about Parkinson’s and how HBOT helps reduce the affects of this debilitating disease. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5851727/pdf/medi-97-e0029.pdf Learn more about HBOT and Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s Patients with Severe Depression

Studies show that HBOT can reduce the risk of death from heart attack and unstable angina, improve oxygen supply to the heart and may reduce the volume of heart muscle that perishes. A new study shows that it is also helpful for those of us not suffering from acute heart disease as well. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can improve heart functionality in healthy aging humans, according to a study* by the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research at Shamir Medical Center in Be’er Ya’acov. The study, led by Dr. Marina Leitman, Dr. Shmuel Fuchs, Dr. Amir Hadanny, Dr. Zvi Vered and Efrati, was published in the International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging. Healthy patients receiving HBOT to improve cognitive function underwent a 60-session treatment course using the Sagol Center’s regenerative HBOT protocols. Along with normal aging, there is typically a decrease in cardiac function – particularly in the mitochondrial cells of the heart. Using a high-resolution echocardiography, 31 patients were evaluated before HBOT was administered and three weeks after treatment concluded to identify the sustained effect of the treatment. What the team observed was “an improvement in contractility function of the heart – meaning, the heart muscle contracted more efficiency over the course of the 60-session protocol.  Shai Efrati, co-author and director of […]

How’s Your Heart

Dr. Grace Johnstone and Dr. Seth Osgood at an affiliate training
Hyperbaric Vermont Furthers Mission to Make Life-Changing Treatment Accessible by Welcoming New Affiliate Montpelier and South Burlington, VT (June 11, 2021) Hyperbaric Vermont is pleased to welcome Grassroots Functional Medicine to its Affiliated Provider Network. This new partnership will extend access to affordable hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) to the Upper Valley.  The Hyperbaric Vermont Provider training offers physician and staff training to both Affiliated and independent providers who wish to make affordable HBOT available to their patients. Dr. Seth Osgood, Liz Mitchell, NP and staff member Christine Constantine completed the training.  Grassroots Functional Medicine joins Hyperbaric Vermont affiliates Community Hyperbaric in East Hardwick, Blue Skies Hyperbaric in Middlebury, and Gentle Hyperbaric in Brattleboro. Located in West Lebanon, NH, Dr. Seth Osgood founded Grassroots Functional Medicine after struggling for years with chronic health problems that traditional medicine and pharmaceuticals could not resolve. He finally found relief and true healing with a functional medicine approach. Since then he has been helping patients around the world transform their health by getting to the root cause of the symptoms and restoring the body’s natural ability to heal.  Dr. Osgood commented, “I am excited to be adding a new tool to our healing toolbox that […]

GrassRoots Functional Medicine joins as new Affiliated Provider