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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy refers to the medicinal use of oxygen respiration at 100% concentration and elevated pressures. These treatments usually are carried out in devices that allow compression, such as hyperbaric chambers. The effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy are multiple and are mainly explained by three mechanisms: 1. Hydrostatic pressure and removal of inert gases from the tissues. 2. The pharmacological effect of high blood oxygen concentrations. 3. Oxygenation of hypoxic tissues. All this translates into antiischemic, regenerative, and even antimicrobial effects that facilitate its use in multiple diseases.

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Neuropathy affects approximately 30 million Americans at any given time. Sadly, if you have diabetes you will likely have neuropathy as well. Nearly 60% of people with diabetes suffer from diabetic neuropathy. This condition can adversely affect a patient’s quality of life and take someone who was completely healthy and render them helpless. It is important that the medical community focus on this condition and develop more therapies for it. Stem cells are becoming a promising treatment option for patients with neuropathy.

Degenerative diseases are devastating -- for people living with the disease(s) as well as their loved ones. Some of the most common degenerative diseases include Lou Gehrig’s disease, Alzheimers, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis. Currently there isn’t a cure for any of the aforementioned diseases, which is precisely why -- in addition to the disease symptoms themselves -- the prognosis is so devastating.