So claims of Hyperbaric oxygen therapy helping with everything abound on the internet, as I personally am trying desperately to fix my terrible terrible brain problems, from a brain injury at birth, to ECT making it worse, and I have rambled on in other threads.
So what do people think of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, for brain damage, or the myriad claims it says it can heal?
I know it can treat divers bends which is what it was originally used for, and Acute CO poisoing.
What about systemic brain damage, claims that increasing blood flow, making new vessels, and the potential for this to increase neurogenesis, is this quackery or is there some truth to it?
I have personally talked to people who said it is doing wonders for them, and their autistic child and so on.
But then again placebo affect is a strong potential here, and anecdotal accounts are weak, as ECT posts show people loving it, but if you talk with them, as I have, they start to realize how much it has harmed rather than helped, as one example illustrating the worst of modern medical claims perhaps.
Than there's LLLT, quote from one person on LDN forums, "low level laser therapy. It is non visable infared light which penetrates deeply into the body (depending upon the wavelength used). I am using it to treat my brain as well as the lyme disease."
Then there's TMS, or using magnets, in the theory that it can help alleviate depression, and now treat birth injuries.
Seems "modern medicine" loves to treat myriad of disorders with the same approach, and that is when people get seriously hurt, not to mention just "bad medicine" which is still the norm, not the exception in this country.
Sorry for poorly written post, my brain is really bad. I was trying to create a thread on technologies used to treat brain damage, brain illness, as this is what so many people complain of at immminst.
