Looking at the potential for healing during Hyperbaric Medicine Awareness Month

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – May is Hyperbaric Medicine Awareness Month, and Essentia Health wants to make sure you know about the potential life-changing treatments.

As part of the treatment, patients are placed in a chamber where they breathe pure oxygen at higher than normal air pressure.

The treatment can help to promote healing for a wide variety of injuries and illnesses, from frostbite and burns to brain abscesses.

And while the treatment can be intimidating at first, they say patients begin to feel the benefits quickly.

“There’s this anxiety. By the fourth, fifth, seventh treatment, they’re like “This is easy, this is easy,” and by the tenth or twentieth treatment they don’t want to stop. That’s what we see, they just want to keep going, but of course, you have to stop at some point.”

As with all treatments, the first step is talking to your care provider about whether hyperbaric medicine could be right for you.