Can Hyperbaric Oxygen help reduce the spasticity in some patients?
With different disorders as in stroke, C.P., T.B.I., Closed head injury, and others, sometimes the patients muscles often become spastic or rigid. This spasticity becomes the greatest obstacle to physical therapy. HBOT has been known to be an effective and nontoxic anti-spasticity measure. Along with Physical Therapies, HBOT helps reduces spasticity. It is not exactly clear how HBOT reduces Spasticity, but Medical Physicians who are involved with HBOT believe that it has to do with activation of the neurons in the penumbra zone of the brain.
