Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber
Visit the Kyushi Wellness Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber
Total treatment time is between 60 & 90 minutes subject to your initial health consult. The time will likely increase the more you use it and your tolerance builds.
Allow 120 mins for your appointments.
1 session - £75
A block of 5 sessions - £325 (valid for 1 calendar year)
A block of 10 sessions - £550 (valid for 1 calendar year)
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) serves as a great adjunct to many therapies and treatments and is very widely researched in its clinical effectiveness for assisting in the healing process of many conditions including: general Health and Wellbeing, improving Healing and Recovery time from Musculoskeletal Injuries, Radiation therapy and injuries, Chronic Wounds, Neurodegenerative Disease, Decompression Sickness, Carbon Monoxide Toxicity, amongst many more.
The HBOT is based in the Kyushi Wellness Clinic in Norfolk and is available Monday - Friday 10am - 8pm.
We use the Oxyhealth Vitaeris 320 chamber which is one of their largest portable designs that serves as our most popular chamber amongst parents, physicians, celebrities and professional athletes. The sizeable 32” diametric chamber has complete freedom of movement for patients and maintains our strict and impeccable safety specifications. Strategically angled air-in port and tamper-proof redundant pressure regulators maintains consistent circulatory air flow within the chamber during treatments. Three patient viewing windows illuminate the interior with room light.
What is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy?
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the medical use of oxygen in a pressurized environment, at a level higher than 1 atmosphere absolute (ATA). Increased pressure allows for oxygen to dissolve and saturate the blood plasma (independent of hemoglobin/red blood cells), which yields a broad variety of positive physiological, biochemical and cellular effects. This noninvasive therapy is the most trusted way to increase oxygen levels to all organs of the body. The typical treatment lasts for 60-90 minutes, during which the patient lies down and breathes normally.
HBOT has been demonstrated in several clinical studies to enhance the body’s innate ability to repair and regenerate. It is used as an adjunct therapy to complement and enhance the healing process in both chronic and acute conditions.
The history of HBOT?
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a medical treatment that can be traced back to the 1600’s. In 1662, the first renowned chamber was built and operated by a British clergyman named Henshaw. He erected a structure titled, the Domicilium, that was used to treat a variety of conditions. In 1878, Paul Bert, a French physiologist, discovered the link between decompression sickness and nitrogen bubbles. Bert later identified that the pain could be ameliorated with recompression. The concept of treating patients under pressurized conditions was continued by the French surgeon Fontaine, who later built a pressurized mobile operating room in 1879. Fontaine found that inhaled nitrous oxide had a greater potency under pressure, in addition to his patients having improved oxygenation.
In the early 1900’s Dr. Orville Cunningham, a professor of anesthesia, observed that people with particular heart diseases improved better when they lived closer to sea level than those living at higher altitudes. He treated a colleague who was suffering from influenza and was near death due to lung restriction. His resounding success led him to develop what was known as the “Steel Ball Hospital” located along the shore of Lake Erie. The six story structure was erected in 1928 and was 64 feet in diameter. The hospital could reach 3 atmospheres absolute. Unfortunately, due to the depressed financial status of the economy, it was deconstructed during in 1942 for scrap.
Subsequently, hyperbaric chambers were later developed by the military in the 1940’s to treat deep-sea divers who suffered from decompression sickness. In the 1950’s, physicians first employed HBOT during heart and lung surgery, which led to its use for carbon monoxide poisoning in the 1960’s. Since then, over 10,000 clinical trials and case studies have been completed for numerous other health-related applications with the vast majority of results reporting resounding success.