Dr. Harch, a hero in the making for brain injury patients

When it comes to brain injuries doctors offer little hope to patients. There is one treatment however that works improving the lives of those who deal with daily struggles.

Sadly when it comes to obtaining this treatment governments do not currently cover the costs.

New research on Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Treatment(HBOT) for TBI will be presented next week at the 8th World Congress on Brain Injury in Washington DC.
After the initial positive findings of two Airmen who were treated with HBOT after being disabled during a roadside burning were complete Dr. Harch returned to continue his study.
Fifteen symptomatic U.S. military veterans who had been diagnosed by either military or civilian neuropsychologists and neurologists for TBI from blast-induced PCS(2) or PCS/PTSD(13) took part in the second study.
Subjects completed cognitive testing, brain imaging (identical to the imaging in the online case above in Cases Journal) , symptom and quality of life questionnaires, and affective measures pre and immediately post a course of forty HBOT sessions. The sessions took place twice a day, five days a week for four weeks.
After the thirty day course of HBOT treatment the subjects all showed significant symptomatic, cognitive, and affective improvements.
Dr. Paul G. Harch, author of The Oxygen Revolution: Changing Medicine & Saving Lives, has been working with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) at the University of Louisiana as an Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Program Director, Hyperbaric Medicine Department.
“I turned over the fellowship directorship in 3/09 to one of my junior faculty. I had been the director for 18 years”
He believes that HBOT treatments could be used to help millions of Americans who suffer from brain injury or disease.

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