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The Importance of Oxygen in Healing Traumatic Brain Injuries [part 2]

4 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Don Wood (speaker/uploader) explains how traumatic brain injury (TBI) can leave patients physically unable to perform tasks they want to do, causing frustration and anger. He describes how hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) increases pressure (up to three atmospheres/"three times the pressure" in his words) to drive more oxygen and blood flow into injured brain areas, which he says helps those areas heal faster. The chunk includes a relatable arm-weakness example and an anecdote referencing the speaker's son.

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Imagine if I've got my right arm and my right arm is really weak, and you ask me to pick up this book, right? I may not be able to pick up the book because my arm doesn't have enough power, right? Is it because I don't want to pick up the book? No, I can't pick up the book. So. People who have had traumatic brain injuries sometimes can't do the things they want to do. So imagine the frustration. There's where the anger was coming in, especially for my son that we noticed is he couldn't do what he wanted to do, even though he thought he should be able to do it. So hyperbaric oxygen allows more blood flow into the areas that have been injured that are not getting the blood flow, and that allows them to heal faster. The brain can heal with more oxygen. You can't get that oxygen in there unless you have the pressure deeper. But when you get into a hyperbaric, they can increase the pressure to anywhere up to three times the pressure.