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45 minute dive

HBOT in Grimes

Your First Visit

On your first visit to Clarity, our primary goal is your safety. We will gather some pertinent health information, as well as your reason for seeking hyperbaric treatment. We will then perform a neurologic scan to determine how adaptable your body is at this time.

After scanning is complete, our doctors will assess you history, scan results, expectations for HBOT, potential risks, and confirm that you are a good candidate for HBOT at our office.

This first appointment takes approximately 30 minutes, but many of our patients remark that it is the most detailed exam they have received.

Once you have gone through the initial assessment and agreed to our doctors recommendations for treatment (membership or individually), you are ready to begin hyperbaric treatment. Hyperbaric treatment normally comes in blocks of 30-40 treatments for most chronic injuries or conditions that are over 6 months old. Diagnoses and conditions that are less than 6 months old can require less treatment.

Depending on the condition, our doctors my recommend some specialized imaging that can alter the course of care. You should expect to be under rigorous treatment for 2-3 months depending on your condition, and your bodies adaptability. Throughout treatment, the doctors will preform re-assessments to establish the change you’ve made, and alter treatment if necessary.

During those 2-3 months, our doctors recommend suspending all non critical treatments outside of corrective spinal care from a licensed neurologically based chiropractor. They do not recommend you stopping any medications, but they do like to isolate treatment to one variable, the hyperbaric oxygen treatment. If we can isolate hyperbaric treatments, we will be able to identify whether or not hyperbaric oxygen therapy is having the desired effects. Once you start to show a noticeable response to HBOT, our doctors will carefully re-introduce other treatment methods that can be synergistic with HBOT.


START OF TREATMENT

EXIT EVALUATION

At the end of treatment, you will have a final conversation with our doctors to discuss your progress with HBOT and talk about your next steps for healing. Options after your initial treatment are dependent on how well you do under care. With Traumatic Brain Injury, sometimes more treatment can be recommended based on the severity. Once the injury is treated, its treated, and maintenance care isn’t needed. Often times, individuals will enjoy how HBOT makes them feel and choose to continue on a weekly basis of their own accord.


Why 45 minutes?

Our 45 minute session is ideal for those suffering from a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), dementia, Autism, or a sports injury.

A common way to receive a mild TBI is due to a concussion. Damage to the white matter within the brain, which is common in concussion, stroke, or dementia can prevent transmission of neurologic signals.

What’s white matter? The white matter acts as highways within the brain for information to go where its needed.

This damage to the white matter can lead to headaches, migraines, confusion, and mood swings. This is one of the most common injuries that our veterans experience on the battlefield. After they initially recover from the injury, the long term effects can start to settle in within weeks of the injury. This can manifest itself as headaches/migraines for no apparent reason, as well as other pain related symptomatology. The little known side effect of brain trauma is PTSD. This video linked here is a recount of retired Sergeant Major Simon LeMay, who serve in the US Marine Corps for 25 years with 8 separate deployments.

Retired Sarg. Major Simon LeMay’s Story With HBOT

If you or a loved one are suffering from PTSD associated with brain injury, you are not alone. Often times following head trauma it can be very difficult to rationalize why you are still here and you brothers are not. Survivors guilt is real, but it can be helped. Hyperbaric medicine is often labeled “hope for the hopeless”. There is a solution out there, you just have to find it. Contact our office today to start your recovery.

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