Also looking at hyperbaric treatments

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SorcererXIII

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Just sort of thinking out loud. I recently contacted Richard Handley, a man with mild cerebral palsy who had both stem cell and hyperbaric treatments. While he throught the stem cell treatments were effective (he went to ccsvi-center.de in Frankfurt, Germany) he recommended that I get a soft hyperbaric chamber from healingdives.com. He believes that if he had done this from childhood, he wouldn't need crutches to walk.

Which let me to a search of whether soft chambers (which use ambient air at 1.3 atmospheres) or hard chambers (which use 100% oxygen at 1.5 atmospheres or more) were more effective.

I found this study, which seemed to indicate that soft chambers (which you can buy and use at home) may be equally effective:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cerebral-palsy-study-dispels-inflated-costs-and-biases-99319654.html
http://hyperbaricstudies.com/wp-content/uploads/Hyperbaric-Therapy-Based-Multimode-Therapy-for-children-with-Cerebral-Palsy.pdf

Always skeptical to hear that the cheap, portable solution may actually work best. So now I'm off to look for opposing evidence; hope I don't find it :)
 
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Just a presentation with a more detailed explanation of the above study.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://oxfordhbot.com/library/cerebral_palsy/214.004.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwjWs4Kp_ezMAhVK-2MKHeBzB8U4ChAWCEAwCA&usg=AFQjCNFTiRnS--5uYqPTC-qkYVROFZf-Vw&sig2=dYVwbqmh-x0RsDj5rs8XwA

Evidently there was a prior study by someone named Collet that compared mild hbot with hard hbot and found them to have equal effects. Since there was no placebo in the study, it was concluded that they were "equally useless" rather than "equally beneficial ". So this later study includes the placebo to demonstrate that mild and hard are both more effective than none. But it seems to have been largely ignored....even the Wikipedia page for hbot says it's not helpful for cp, and cites the non placebo study as the proof.
 
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barbara

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Have you contacted anyone at the International Hyperbarics Association? http://www.ihausa.org/ A few years back, one of the members here was testing HBOT out for COPD. He recommended that anyone who was interested in HBOT read the book, "The Oxygen Revolution by Paul Harch and Virginia McCulloch." He said he picked up a copy at his local library.

This testimonial was on the Hyperbarics Association website:

Dear friends,

A 27 year old female, birth hypoxia, CP patient, whose feet had long ago been operated upon—several times—to relieve spasticity, to correct them and her gait (her only sign and symptom), began experimental hyperbaric sessions (1.3 ATA/ 21% oxygen/ 60 minutes daily) one and a half months ago, at the Hyperbaric Medicine Unit of the Maimonides University, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Two weeks ago she remarked that her workmates (she is a public attorney) and parents had noticed she was standing up straighter, and that her manner of walking was more “flexible” and less “hobbly”.

Today, with a big smile, and showing me the thick, oddly eroded soles of her special boots she said, “You know that I drag my feet in this special way. The edges of my nailed soles get worn down like this in no time. Well, my 20 day-old boots still have pristine soles. Have you noticed that I don’t drag my feet anymore?!”

So much for the effects of low pressure hyperbarics on long-standing spasticity. Best Regards,

Ignacio Fojgel, M.D.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
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barbara

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Do you have access to HBOT near where you live? Usually, a series of many treatments is needed which makes it difficult for some to pursue.
 
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SorcererXIII

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barbara said:
Do you have access to HBOT near where you live? Usually, a series of many treatments is needed which makes it difficult for some to pursue.
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Yeah, I have a chiropractor friend who is buying one for her practice and offered to let me use it. If trekking to and from her office becomes tedious we will get our own (one of the mild/soft chambers).
 
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