Almost 2 million kids suffer concussions every year playing sports like hockey, soccer and football, but one local athlete says he found a treatment that is making him better a lot faster. Spencer Silverstein, quarterback of the football team at Richard Montgomery...
New Orleans, LA - A pilot case control study of veterans of the US armed forces with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) or persistent post-concussion syndrome (PPCS), with or without post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), has found significant improvements...
Dr. Paul Harch, Clinical Professor and Director of Hyperbaric Medicine at Louisiana State University Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Dr. Edward Fogarty, at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine, report the case of the reversal of...
A recent Department of Veterans Affairs decision to begin offering hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) to some veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder has drawn praise from the chairman of The American Legion’s PTSD/TBI Ad Hoc Committee. Read the full...
KFLY, Acadia, LA reporting on Lafayette resident Paul Bosworth's traumatic brain injury and his experience with hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). Bosworth shows SPECT imaging of his brain before and after the HBOT treatment, indicating...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) may cause persistent cognitive dysfunction. A pilot clinical study was performed to determine if hyperbaric oxygen (HBO₂) treatment improves cognitive performance. It was hypothesized that stem cells, mobilized by HBO₂ treatment, are recruited to repair damaged neuronal tissue. This hypothesis was tested by measuring the relative abundance of stem cells in peripheral blood and cognitive performance during this clinical trial. The subject population consisted of 28 subjects with persistent cognitive impairment caused by mild to moderate TBI suffered during military deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) analysis was performed for stem cell markers in peripheral blood and correlated with variables resulting from standard tests of cognitive performance and post-traumatic stress disorder: ImPACT, BrainCheckers and PCL-M test results. HBO₂ treatment correlated with stem cell mobilization as well as increased cognitive performance. Together these results support the hypothesis that stem cell mobilization may be required for cognitive improvement in this population.
USA Today Reports on the recovery of a 2-year-old Arkansas girl, Eden Carlson, who nearly drowned in her family's swimming pool. Her ordeal resulted in significant brain damage and her family was told that if she were to survive that she would not be able...
Good Morning America (ABC News) reporting on the success of HBOT treatment on Eaden Carlson. Doctor Paul Harch was able to reverse brain damage in the toddler who was left unable to walk and talk after falling into her family's swimming pool.
Abstract Studies of the association between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and suicide attempt have yielded conflicting results. Furthermore, no studies have examined the possible mediating role of common comorbid psychiatric conditions in this association. This study...
