mHBOT for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Initial research on using hyperbaric oxygen treatment to help arthritis joint pain, especially from rheumatoid arthritis, looks promising.

Writing for Patients Medical, Dr. Rashmi Gulati, a specialist in integrative medicine based in New York, says more studies are concluding that hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be “markedly superior to routine treatment of RA.”

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has become a standard of practice for rheumatoid arthritis in many countries,” she noted. “Clinical practice has proved that hyperbaric oxygen therapy has good effects on analgesia, lowering blood sedimentation rate, stabilizing immunologic function, and strengthening the body’s resistance for eliminating pathogenic factors. It is also beneficial for the repair of the diseased joints.

She also said such therapy can inhibit the progression of rheumatoid arthritis and suppress the inflammation that goes along with the disorder, adding that having hyperbaric oxygen therapy daily can work on a disease even if it has fully developed.