Therapies
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is 100% oxygen delivered at increased atmospheric pressure resulting in up to fifteen-fold increase of oxygen dissolved in the plasma. The increase in oxygen concentration stimulates the immune system and stimulates the body’s ability to heal itself. It is used for a variety of conditions including non-healing diabetic wounds, tissue radiation injury, bone infections (osteomyelitis), stroke, concussion, PTSD and traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Treatments are painless and non-invasive. The patient lies in a roomy pressurized chamber filled with 100% pure medical grade oxygen. The patient can sleep, meditate, watch movies from Netflix or you tube, watch DVD’s or listen to music. You may feel a slight increase of pressure in your ears, much like that experienced while landing in an airplane.
Depending on the patient’s reason for treatment, a patient can see the following benefits:
- Stimulates an 8-fold increase in the body’s own production of stem cells.
- Reduces inflammation and swelling
- Reduces bruising
- Reduces pain
- Stimulates healing by stimulating the formation of new blood vessels
- Stimulates the immune system to fight infection
- Activates neuroplasticity
- May promote the growth and development of nervous tissue (Neurogenesis).
Patients who have the following conditions:
- PTSD
- Traumatic brain injury
- Concussion
- Non-healing diabetic wounds
- Osteoradionecrosis
- Soft tissue radiation injury
- Osteomyelitis or bone infections
- Failing graphs or flaps
- Lyme disease
- Autism
- Multiple sclerosis
- Others
The duration of treatment plans will vary depending on the condition being treated. Commonly, 5 sessions per week are recommended with each treatment lasting 90 minutes.
Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback is a type of biofeedback which charts brainwave frequencies in real time to teach the brain self-regulation. qEEGs or Brain Maps can determine the location and extent of any anomalies in your brainwave patterns and based on those anomalies we create individualized protocols to target dysregulation and restore balance.
Neurofeedback can help break undesirable mental or behavioral patterns by providing reinforcement for “normal” function during training. Normally we can’t influence our brainwaves directly. However, when you can see your brainwaves a few thousandths of a second after they occur, it becomes possible to retrain your brain.
Transcendental Meditation
It is a simple, natural, effortless technique practiced 20 minutes twice a day while sitting comfortably with the eyes closed. It’s not a religion, philosophy or lifestyle but it is a way of letting your mind and nervous system settle down into an extremely calm and wise state of rest.
The effectiveness of Transcendental Meditation for the treatment of PTSD and TBI has been documented.
Key findings include:
- 40-55% reduction in symptoms in PTSD and depression
- 42% decrease of insomnia
- 30% improvement in satisfaction with quality of life
- 25% reduction in plasma cortisol levels
- Decreased high blood pressure-on par with the first-line antihypertensiveness
- 47% reduced risk of cardiovascular-related mortality
Transcendental Meditation allows the active thinking mind to settle inward to experience a naturally calm, peaceful level of awareness. During TM, the body enjoys a profoundly rejuvenating rest, while the brain functions with significantly greater coherence.
Brain research has identified three basic approaches to meditation:
- Focused attention (concentrating on a thought or object)
- Open monitoring (observing breath, thoughts, or the environment)
- Automatic self-transcending (spontaneously experiencing quieter levels of thought — a unique state of restful alertness)
The Transcendental Meditation technique involves no focused attention nor open monitoring. It is a process of automatic self-transcending, allowing the practitioner to experience a field of calm deep within.
Far Infrared Sauna
Infrared light is part of the Sun's invisible spectrum of light that can penetrate the human tissue. Infrared heat therapy uses these far infrared light characteristics to heat the body directly rather than just the air. Infrared heat therapy is completely safe, you can be exposed to far infrared heat for hours and it will never cause your skin to burn. Far infrared saunas increase the body's core temperature thus resulting in a much deeper, more detoxifying sweat. Our infrared saunas operate at a low 100 - 150 degrees Farenheit. Infrared Saunas can increase the core body temperature by 3 degrees Fareneheit, with sessions lasting 30-45 minutes.
Detoxification is the most important because the body sweats out toxic substances, including heavy metals which strengthens the body's immune system and improves cellular function. Through detoxification heavy metals such as lead, mercury, arsenic, aluminum, cadmium and nickel - along with industrial chemicals such as pesticides and herbicides are eliminated through the skin. This relives the burden on the kidneys and liver. Conventional Saunas sweat out 3% toxins and 97% water, Far Infrared Saunas sweat out 20% toxins and 80% water.
Other Benefits:
- Pain Relief
- Weight Loss
- Lowers Blood Pressure
- Improves Circulation
- Reduces muscle spasm
- Reduces soreness on both free nerve endings in tissue and on peripheral nerves
- Reduces swelling and inflammation by improving lymph flow
- Stimulates enzyme activity
- Promotes the adhesion osmosis of water molecules across cellular membrane
- Skin Purification
Sweating performs more than simply a cooling function for the body. It is also a way through which the bodily burden of accumulated toxins can be more rapidly detoxified. The skin is the largest organ of elimination. Recent studies have shown that sweating helps remove arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, bisphenol A (BPA) and highly toxic flame retardants (polybrominated diphenyl ether).
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) floods every cell in the body with oxygen causing an increase in cellular metabolism. As a result the cells function more efficiently and in the process toxins are excreted into the body fluids. Far Infrared Saunas help to remove these toxins from the body.