Oxygen for Stroke Recovery: Pioneering Physician Shares His Findings
Pioneering research physician Dr. David Steenblock shares how both pure oxygen and hyperbaric oxygen therapy are producing very significant improvements in stroke patients.
(PRWEB) February 4, 2005 -- Pure oxygen and hyperbaric (high pressure) oxygen therapy (HBOT) are proving to be a powerful tool for enhancing survival and recovery following stroke according to pioneering research physician, David A. Steenblock. Many other leading edge physicians and researchers agree. This approach is being showcased by Dr. Steenblock at the International Hyperbarics Association booth at the 2005 International Stroke Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2-4.
Stroke by definition is a lack of oxygen to parts of the brain either from due to some kind of blockage or else loss of blood flow due to a ruptured blood vessel (hemorrhagic stroke). Oxygen is a natural, effective therapy and the number one drug of choice for both acute and chronic stroke. Breathing oxygen at the first signs of a stroke can ameliorate much of the damaging effects.
Dr. Steenblocks own work in the field of hyperbaric medicine over the past 12 years includes a clinical study involving 50 stable chronic stroke and traumatic brain injured patients done during 1995. These patients were given hyperbaric oxygen in combination with physical therapy and EEG biofeedback for two months. Family and caregivers completed specially designed questionnaires before and following treatment, while physical therapists conducted pre- and post-treatment evaluations. When the results were analyzed, it was found that all the patients experienced improvements in one or more functions.
This study dovetails with scores of patient case histories Dr. Steenblock has accumulated that demonstrating the merits of HBOT for stroke. One telltale case was a woman named Dorothy who came in on a Friday night in 1990 on a gurney -- unable to move (complete paralysis) and comatose. She was given alternating HBOT and special intravenous therapy (IVs) through the weekend and walked out of the clinic unassisted on Monday and two weeks later was back behind the wheel of her car driving again.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Paper presented at the 6th International Bio-Oxidative Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, March 16, 1995.
Poster Session. Improved Therapy for Rehabilitation of Stroke. National Stroke Association Ninth Annual Stroke Rehabilitation Conference. Boston, Mass. October 16-17, 1997.
Hyperbaric Oxygen for Treatment of Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injuries. Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients. Issue 181/182, pg. 94-100, August/September 1998.
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