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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves neurocognitive functions and symptoms of post-COVID condition: randomized controlled trial

Abstract Post-COVID-19 condition refers to a range of persisting physical, neurocognitive, and neuropsychological symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection. The mechanism can be related to brain tissue pathology caused by virus invasion or indirectly by neuroinflammation and hypercoagulability. This randomized, sham-control, double blind trial evaluated the effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT...

Long term outcomes of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in post covid condition: longitudinal follow-up of a randomized controlled trial

Abstract In our previous randomized controlled trial, we documented significant improvements in cognitive, psychiatric, fatigue, sleep, and pain symptoms among long Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID) patients who underwent hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). The primary objective of the present study was to evaluate the enduring 1 year long term effects of...

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

R M Leach, P J Rees, and P Wilmshurst Copyright and License information PMC Disclaimer Over the past 40 years hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been recommended and used in a wide variety of medical conditions, often without adequate scientific validation of efficacy or safety. Consequently a high degree of medical scepticism has developed...

A General Overview on the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Applications, Mechanisms and Translational Opportunities

Miguel A. Ortega,1,2,3,* Oscar Fraile-Martinez,1,2,* Cielo García-Montero,1,2 Enrique Callejón-Peláez,4 Miguel A. Sáez,1,2,5 Miguel A. Álvarez-Mon,1,2 Natalio García-Honduvilla,1,2 Jorge Monserrat,1,2 Melchor Álvarez-Mon,1,2,6 Julia Bujan,1,2 and María Luisa Canals7 Costantino Balestra, Academic Editor and Jacek Kot, Academic Editor Author information Article notes Copyright and License information PMC Disclaimer Associated Data Data Availability Statement Go to: Abstract Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) consists of using of pure oxygen at increased pressure...

Non-surgical spinal decompression therapy: does the scientific literature support efficacy claims made in the advertising media?

Background Traction therapy has been utilized in the treatment of low back pain for decades. The most recent incarnation of traction therapy is non-surgical spinal decompression therapy which can cost over $100,000. This form of therapy has been heavily marketed to manual therapy professions and subsequently to the consumer. The...

Influences of spinal decompression therapy and general traction therapy on the pain, disability, and straight leg raising of patients with intervertebral disc herniation

Abstract [Purpose] The purpose of this study was to identify how spinal decompression therapy and general traction therapy influence the pain, disability, and straight leg raise (SLR) ability of patients with intervertebral disc herniation. [Subjects] The subjects were 30 patients with chronic lumbar pain who were divided into a spinal...

Spinal Decompression

Overview What is spinal decompression? Spinal decompression describes different types of treatment that can offer back pain relief by taking pressure off the neural elements of your spine. Why do people have spinal decompression therapy? Your spine (backbone) provides support for your body. It consists of bones called vertebrae, with ligaments and...

Chronic Muscle Pains

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Neuralgia and How to Fix It

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Most Common Therapies

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