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Hyperbaric therapy is a means to enhance oxygen delivery to ischemic tissues of the body. For details see Index to HBOT Files
Please understand that HBOT is a generic treatment procedure. It controls hypoxia and inflammation in any tissue, and also has wide ranging specific benefits as given below. These include:
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Regarding Autism:It is a multigenetic disturbance syndrome and not "A Disease". Due to the multiplicity of genetic faults, there are various biochemical and neuro-hormonal pathways and physiological functions of the body that may go wrong in a particular person with autism. These include:At UDAAN, we do a CT-cum-SPECT Fusion Scan of brain in children with CP or Autism who seek HBOT. Routine SPECT dithered scans are difficult to interpret as the tiny areas of damage may not reveal in such a crude scan. We are reasonably accurate in telling from the scan, without first seeing the child, what problems the child has, though we still need to go some distance to achieve perfection. Routine CECT and MRI are anatomical scans and are often inadequate for our purpose of correlation of "Function" to scan result assessment unless there are gross large areas of hypoxic damage or sequelae. If the problem areas show that the brain is edematous and inflamed (Ischemic penumbra) but not totally dysfunctional (dead), THEN ONLY do we advise HBOT, based on our experience since 2001 in this field. |
To give an example: ibuoprofen works as a pain and inflammation remover in cases of Arthritis and traumatic pain in leg of a football player, as per a clinical study done. Do you still need a study to prove that it will also work in relieving inflammation and pain in a traumatic injury of the right elbow, and another one for the left elbow and another one for the back bone.......????
We, at FSMHP-UDAAN for the Disabled, are a team of doctors, therapists and psychologists who will work with the child, assessing him/her, using diagnostic and well as PROGNOSTIC scales. The medical wing will assess his physiology and biochemical parameters, micronutrient levels, allergy and toxicology profile, blood metal profiles, serum vitamin levels, and then guide the dietician to plan out a well balanced allergen free well tolerated diet suitable for a normal child of his/her sex, weight and age (DAN Protocol based). Certain specific genetic parameters will also need testing and remedial medical means adopted. All of these will be evidence based approach to the limit possible in India. After three months or more of this process, we will do a CT-cum-SPECT Fusion Scan of brain using dyes at an appropriate dose for small children. After analysing that scan, we suggest what degree of benefit may accrue from HBOT. In severe and evident cases of brain hypoxia, we may dispense with the CT-SPECT scan to reduce costs.
Just as in any class of 50 normal kids, someone becomes a lower division clerk while another becomes a high beaureacrat or very high ranking professional, similarly, different children will respond differently. About a quarter so improve remarkably, a little more than one third show good improvement, another quarter will show minor improvements, while the balance will not show any statistically significant improvement.
The Times of India Mumbai Edition, September 21, 2009; Section: Times City; page 7, had an article on HBOT usage in Autism, and had quoted a pediatric neurologist who said that a study showed that HBOT does not work in CP. This is a rypical example of a closed moind. He comment is based on erroneaous interpretation of that particular study, which has subsequently been shown to be a falsehood imposed on disabled chlildren and their families, to save Tax dollars by officialy denying them The rate of neurodevelopment of motor activity in a CP child is measured by changes in the GMFM Scale, best assessed using a GMAE Estimator software, which is rarely found anywhere in India (UDAAN has been using it since 2003). This was the main tool used in the Collet study on HBOT in CP from Quebec, Canada, that the doctor was referring to, as published in the Lancet in 2001. That study clearly showed that when CP children are NOT TREATED, their GMFM score spontaneously improved at a rate of 0.1 per month, whereas when either HBOT at 1.75 Atmospheric pressure (ATA) with 100% oxygen was used or 1.3 Atmospheric pressure with ambient air was used, the GMFM change JUMPED to 1.0 or more per month: that is, a TEN FOLD Spontaneous jump. Is that a joke? But that Pediatric Neurologist, not knowing the implications of GMAE and GMFM, could not appreciate that, and only went by the commentary repeated ad-nauseaum at every forum by Collet, who is neither a qualified doctor nor a HBOT therapist, but only a Government employed Pharmacist who used to do drug trials, who was thrust upon the team of genuine doctors, pediatricians and HBOT Therapists lead by Pierre Marois, to discredit the study so that Government would not have to re-imburse the money for HBOT in CP. Now that this trickery has been exposed, the state in Canada, where the study took place, has accorded recognition to HBOT as a reimbursible treatment for CP as have more than 16 states in USA. |