Fw: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis Patients

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From: " Kathi " <pureheart@...>

Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 10:05 PM

Subject: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis Patients

> I can attest to having seen the effects of this therapy on an MS patient

> at a clinic twenty years ago. She was barely able to breathe when I met

> her and was totally unable to dress herself or walk. After six months

> of treatment she was walking and was able to breathe normally without

> assistance. She remained on her medication but added supliments as

> prescribed.

>

> Kathi

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> Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis Patients

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> Reports from four countries describing benefits from hyperbaric oxygen

> Therapy (HBOT) in the 1970's led to the first controlled trial conducted

> at

> New York University which was published in the New England Journal of

> Medicine in 1983. The outcome was very positive (p<0.0001),1 despite

> choosing chronic progressive or stable patients with a minimum disease

> duration of over 11 years.

>

> The patients were matched and randomly allocated to treatment or control

>

> groups and examinations were conducted before, during and after a course

> of

> treatment by masked observers. The authors indicated that further

> studies

> using longer follow-up periods were necessary as were studies of the use

> of

> oxygen treatment in patients with acute symptoms. The second trial,

> published in the Lancet in 1985 also recruited chronic patients with

> disease

> duration in excess of ten years. It demonstrated statistically

> significant

> improvement in bladder function. (p< 0.03) (2) The final report of this

> study found that at the end of a year of follow-up there was less

> deterioration of cerebellar function in the treated group.(3)

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