Stroke And Hyperbaric Chambers

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"Dr. Neubauer is a pioneer in the use of HBOT to treat neurological difficulties. ""In the field of stroke,"" he says, ""we are talking about two distinct treatment periods: the first 4 hours after the stroke, and then what we could call long-term late stroke. I know of one patient who made progress with HBOT 12 years after the initial stroke.

""If you can catch a stroke in the first 4 hours, you can, in many cases, recover the use of a significant number of brain cells which appear to be damaged.""

Dr. Neubauer uses a SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) scan, an imaging technology, to create before-and-after pictures of the patient's brain. ""These images show that what we used to think of as dead or damaged brain cells, many of them, are actually in an idling or dormant state. They can literally be kick-started and awakened by flooding the area with oxygen,"" he says.

Dr. John Marler, of the National Institutes of Health, and director of clinical trials in the area of neurological diseases, does not share ""premature opinions about HBOT. Hyperbaric oxygen is only an experimental treatment in the area of stroke, as well as in other neurological problems. These matters take many years to research, and it's worth the time to get it right. Accepting HBOT on the face of it is just not good medicine. We need large-scale controlled clinical trials. Anecdotal reports are not a substitute for real science.""

There are no recent definitive studies, using large numbers of patients and a control group, which show the value of HBOT for neurological problems. Plans are underway to begin a clinical trial this summer using HBOT with stroke patients. One of the study's principal investigators will be Dr. Paul Harch of the LSU School of Medicine.

""In the last 10 years,"" Dr. Harch says, ""I have seen hundreds of patients with some category of neurological brain problem or injury. About 90% of those patients make improvements to one degree or another with HBOT.

""I'll point to the centerfield fence and make a prediction here. In the future HBOT will become a foundation therapy for both acute and chronic neurological brain injury of just about any type.""

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