Veteran Care using HBOT 1.5

Solution:  HR 4568. 
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Veterans of the current War on Terror, as well as previous wars, have experienced concussive blast injuries.  Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT 1.5) has helped 100% of those treated to date to have significant recovery.  It is possible to rebuild a brain in 120 days with 80 hyperbaric oxygen treatments.  Click HERE to learn more about how this treatment is helping our men and women in and out of uniform.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is the use of oxygen in a pressure chamber at greater than atmospheric pressures as a medication to treat injury and disease. Different amounts of oxygen or "pressures" are used to treat different disease or injury processes.

The IHMA is dedicated to making sure that hyperbaric oxygen is used for all indications that would benefit patients.

Traumatic Brain Injury, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Stroke, Dementia, Cerebral Palsy, Chronic Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Coma Patients and Autism have all had positive response when treated with HBOT 1.5.

Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Diabetic Foot Wounds, Reperfusion Injury (like pre & post surgery patients and accident victims) have all responded positively to HBOT 2.4.

 News and handouts from the 2008 DoD HBOT TBI
Consensus Conference - Dec 5th & 6th

Check out the latest copy of the Score Card.  So far, five of five active duty veterans have had their medical boards cancelled and been able to return to duty.  That saved the Federal government an estimated $6.3 million in retraining costs, for a cost of $62,500 for the medical treatment.  Sixteen war veterans treated have all had significant improvement.    Score Card 01/20/09  PDF        <>       Press Release 01/20/09  PDF

On March 3, 2009, at the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing on TBI and Psychological Health, Ms. Ellen Embrey, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Force Health Protection, stated that DoD is not paying for Hyperbaric Medical Treatments for TBI and PTSD because the DoD policy is not to pay for any off-label use of drugs.  That is clearly not an accurate statement, as every drug except Zoloft being used for PTSD and every drug being used for TBI has never been FDA labeled for those conditions.  In addition the side-effects of many of these psychoactive drugs are significant and many are FDA Black Labeled as causing a potential increased suicide risk.  As suicide is a major concern to Congress and the American people, the wide-spread use of these drugs off-label for TBI/PTSD symptoms may be a contributing factor.  HBOT 1.5, though off-label, has caused significant improvement in every combat veteran treated to date, and has none of these side effects.
 
See Dr. Harch's Letter to the Subcommittee dated March 6, 2009.

Solution:  HR 7299. 
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