Oxygen treatment 'helps to promote healing'
Undergoing oxygen treatment can be seen to have the power to heal skin wounds, it has been suggested.
"Oxygen-rich blood stimulates your body to release substances called growth factors and stem cells, which promote healing," South Coast Today reports.
Lisa Tager, programme director for the Southcoast Centre for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, says breathing oxygen-enriched air can help patients' wounds to heal at a much faster rate by superoxygenating the body's cells.
She goes on to estimate that approximately 12 per cent of all non-healing wounds can be healed or improved through oxygen therapy.
Furthermore, the procedure is "very safe", the publication states.
As well as healing wounds, oxygen therapy has also been found to improve headaches and sleep disturbances in a recent study undertaken by the International Hyperbaric Medical Foundation.
People who breathed oxygen-enriched air reported their headache symptoms improving by up to four times after undergoing the therapy.
Posted by Stewart Elliot
23/03/2010 10:51:19
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