Joint inflammation (Arthritis) is one of the most common ailments in the world, affecting almost 25% of the adult US population. Many who are suffering from Arthritis search high and low for a better, safer solution to gain control of this painful condition without...
The inflammation joint pain and arthritis can cause can be so intense that it leaves patients unable to complete even the simplest of tasks. But a therapy available here in Yorkshire is seeing results in its patients, who are reporting less pain and more movement in...
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO₂) therapy is currently used for the treatment of chronic wounds, radiation-induced soft tissue necrosis, several oxygen-deficiency conditions and decompression sickness. In addition to the current indications, much empirical and...
Abstract: For the paper entitled Pain improvement in rheumatoid arthritis with hyperbaric oxygen: report of three cases,' which appeared in the July-August 2016 issue of UHM (43-4), author attributions read as: John B. Slade MD, Mary V. Potts RN, Alan M. Flower DO,...
Abstract: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, erosive, symmetrical inflammatory disease that can progress to synovial destruction, severe disability and premature mortality. Immunotherapies, while beneficial, can cause significant adverse events. Three patients...
Abstract: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, erosive, symmetrical inflammatory disease that can progress to synovial destruction, severe disability and premature mortality. Immunotherapies, while beneficial, can cause significant adverse events. Three patients...
The purpose of this investigation is to determine the effects and ease of using hyperbaric
oxygen therapy HBO2 for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis joint pain and prevention of
disease progression. In this study it is our intention to not only evaluate effects and ease
of treatment but time, cost, possible adverse events and effect size in an attempt to predict
an appropriate sample size and improve on the study design prior to a more extensive study.
Abstract: Intra-articular radiation synovectomy is an established and well documented therapy in rheumatology. A rare side effect is necrosis of surrounding tissue caused by leakage of the radionuclide.We describe the case of a 34-year old patient with rheumatoid...
Under the term “osteoarthritis” (OA) is currently meant a clinical syndrome resulting from the combined effect of articular pain and disordered functional activity leading to the deterioration of the quality of life of the patients. The principal objective of rehabilitation of the patients presenting with GA in which all patients with this condition are in need practically after each next aggravation of the pathological process is to relive pain syndrome and restore the functional ability of the joints lost or deteriorated after each exacerbation in order to eventually improve the quality of life of the patients experiencing the constantly progressing degenerative process in the musculoskeletal system.
