We opened Zen Hyperbarics, Inc. to bring a severely underutilized resource for healing a wide variety of illnesses and injuries to the Staten Island community and surrounding areas. Through the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as an adjunct to your doctors regular treatment plan you can greatly increase the healing process of many illnesses and shorten recovery time from injuries.

Frequently used in Europe mild HBOT (mHBOT) therapy is used in conjunction with a Physician's regular treatment plan to promote a quicker and healthier means of treating illness and injury by utilizing Oxygen to promote faster cellular repair and growth. While not as popularly used in the U.S. it is growing in frequency in the treatment of disease such as Autism, Lyme disease, etc. and the faster healing of Sports injuries. Mild HBOT is even used by some for general wellness, Pre and Post Operative recovery, and recovery from strenuous activity such as professional athletics, and extreme endurance sports.

What is Hyperbaric Therapy?

Hyperbaric Therapy, also known as Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, HBO or HBOT, is a specialized therapy that uses an increase in atmospheric pressure to allow the body to incorporate more oxygen into blood, blood plasma, cerebral-spinal fluid, and other body fluids.

At sea level the atmospheric pressure is 1ATA (14.7 psi or pounds per square inch), which allows the lungs to absorb a normal amount of oxygen from the air. At higher altitudes, the pressure drops and the lungs are not able to absorb as much oxygen from the air. This is why oxygen masks drop in an airplane at high altitudes — to increase the oxygen content due to the lack of pressure. The exact opposite happens at lower altitudes (below sea level). There, pressure is greater (above 1ATA) and now the lungs can more easily absorb the oxygen, and at a greater volume.

The Principle of HBO is simple. Increase the atmospheric pressure and get a directly proportional increase in available oxygen. In other words, a twofold increase in pressure equals twice the available oxygen molecules to breathe allowing more oxygen to reach the tissues.

How the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy helps the healing process.

The healing process occurs when severely damaged tissue in the body begins to receive oxygen, and blood circulation to the tissue resumes. Damaged tissue may not receive enough blood flow to promote healing due to lack of blood circulation caused by the initial trauma.

Inside the Hyperbaric chamber, the injury site now begins to receive an increased amount of oxygen through the surrounding body fluids and plasma-even if the blood supply to the tissues is compromised.

To increase the amount of oxygen concentration in the hyperbaric chamber, supplemental oxygen is added during treatment. Doctors and therapists commonly use enriched oxygen or an oxygen concentrator, also called an oxygen generator to help supplement the oxygen to greater than room air. As explained before, this oxygen will become infused into the numerous types of liquids in the body-blood, plasma, and cerebral fluids.

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