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The procedure concentrates oxygen in the horse's blood and tissues resulting in faster and better healing of chronic and acute injuries, wounds, infections, and many other ailments common in horses.
Hyperbaric Medicine
Equine Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a medical procedure that delivers increased amounts of oxygen to diseased or injured tissues by placing horses in an oxygen rich environment under increased barometric pressure. Used by human athletes and hospitals for years, this powerful adjunctive therapy is now available for your horse at the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Center at EQUINE SPORTS MEDICINE & SURGERY in Weatherford, Texas.
Case History
Case "R907", a 2 yr old filly was injured in a pasture accident in Sept 2007. Three weeks into recover, with little or no change to the wound, the filly was referred to ESMS for HBOT treatments, within seven days 90% healing, full recovery and discharged in from the hospital in 10 days.
Applications
- Wounds (traumatic, surgical, etc.)
- Traumatic injuries with soft tissue swelling
- Skin, muscle, tendinous our ligamentous injury
- Severe muscle swelling
- Post-injection reactions
- Spider bites
- Bone infection
- Head and spinal injury
- Gastric ulcer healing
HBOT is effective for many types of wounds including massive degloving injuries to the lower leg, large surface wounds from trauma, injection reactions, spider bites and pressure sores from prolonged recumbency as with debilitated animals or neonatal foals. HBOT decreases tissue swelling and therefore salvages damaged tissues when used in the case of traumatic injuries.
HBOT can be used for training injuries in equine athletes. The beneficial effects would include reduction of tissue swelling, reduction of pain associated with swelling and inflammation, and enhancement of the connective tissue repair process.
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Source - Equinehyperbarics.com
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