Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy of Arizona

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy delivers 100% oxygen at a pressure greater than sea level atmospheric pressure while the patient is enclosed within a certified pressurized chamber.

The patient breathes 100% oxygen while covered under a hood, or while wearing a mask.

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Take a breath. The air you just took in is about 21 percent oxygen.

The capillaries in your lungs pick up the oxygen, it dissolves in the plasma of your blood, and gets carried to all parts of your body. And 21 percent oxygen is usually plenty to do the job.

At Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy of Arizona,

we have a large, six person walk-in chamber in which one sits comfortably, breathing 100% oxygen through a mask or hood, while the chamber is safely pressurized with filtered whole air. You sit or recline in the pressurized chamber, possibly with one or more people, while you breathe 100% oxygen through a mask or head tent, or hood. You can often watch TV or read or sleep. At some centers, you will lie in a one-person chamber, and the entire chamber is filled and pressurized with oxygen. But, in a chamber of this type, it is the inhaled oxygen (which is then absorbed by your blood after you breathe it) that speeds wound healing, not the oxygen drifting past the wound. You may have seen advertisements for devices that encase a person's leg and deliver oxygen to the skin. This is not hyperbaric oxygen therapy and it's not effective. Your skin doesn't absorb oxygen that way. These devices may even reduce the amount of oxygen that gets to your leg.

Oxygen levels remain high in tissues for several hours after a treatment, which encourages capillary growth.

New capillaries mean more blood gets to the site of concern, which speeds healing. High oxygen levels also make red blood cells more flexible so they can get through the twists and turns of the capillaries and get to where they're needed.