Commonwealth Health’s hyperbaric medicine treatment options surround patients with difficult wounds with 100% oxygen in a comfortable, pressurized chamber. This saturation promotes the body’s natural immune system and healing responses, allowing wounds to heal more easily, from the inside out.

Hyperbaric oxygen treatments are beneficial for patients who have certain types of complicated or slow-healing wounds, such as bone infections or diabetic foot ulcers. The treatments work in conjunction with other methods, such as antibiotics, to accelerate the healing process.

Wound care specialists may use hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat conditions such as:

• Diabetic wound of the lower extremity
• Chronic refractory osteomyelitis
• Osteoradionecrosis
• Soft tissue radionecrosis
• Compromised skin grafts and flaps
• Acute peripheral arterial insufficiency
• Acute traumatic peripheral ischemia
• Progressive necrotizing infections
• Crush injuries and suturing of severed limbs (acute)
• Gas gangrene (acute)

Your doctor can determine whether this therapy is right for you.