[Valerie Salva]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbFs9NN__Mk

[Advocate1]

That's incredible- I wonder if he will have to have the tx for the rest of his life? And I wonder if this works for others like stroke victims?

[CrystalGLPNTOBE]

Thanks for posting this one. That was an amazing video. I hope that this type of treatment becomes fine tuned and used more often.

[nurz2be]

I am incredibly happy for this kid and his family. I guess what I wonder is, because I am a nursing student who doesn't know much about this stuff, if he will have to use the HBOT for maintenance or if once he has plateaued if the treatments will cease. Either way this has a HUGE opening for other patients and illnesses. BRAVO

[birdgardner]

Wow. What amazing progress. I wonder if any of our brained-injured soldiers and Marines are getting this opportunity - and what rigorous studies say?

[Ruper]

Thanks for sharing! Tears in my eyes watching this! I'm sure there are sceptics and it may not work for everyone, but why would we not want to try .....

Ruper

[APBT mom]

I've heard of this being used for brain injuries before. There is a woman who's has a 1 year old with shaken baby syndrome and they have been using this treatments. He's started to do things that the doctors told her he would never do.

[earle58]

i'm sure hbot would be widely used, if insurance covered it.
it's expensive and remains unsupported.
but stories like this, give all of us hope.

thank you!!!

leslie

[Noryn]

That recovery like all of them was amazing, I am still not convinced the HBOT had that much to do with it. I had the pleasure of working in a rehabilitation hospital for a couple years and brain injuries were amazing. Now they dont always recover but once they start waking up it is wild how fast they can recover. It was a rather common occurrence for them to come in bed bound, non verbal, have a trach and g tube but by the end of a 8-12 week period they could talk, walk and eat. They of course had some residuals, usually reasoning was the big one.

So part of the reason that I am not so impressed with the HBOT is that I have seen worse patients get better quicker. I dont know that I have ever saw someone 3 months out in that shape with that kind of improvement though. HBOT may very well have some benefits, it definitely needs studied but at the same time I dont know if we should encourage someone to spend their life savings on it when in my opinion a good rehabilitation center stay would be much more effective. (A nursing home or skilled unit in a hospital is not true rehabilitation for these patients).

[ingelein]

Back in the 80's I took care of a young man ,about this kids age,for almost 7 years , home care. He had anoxic brain damage from a near drowning. What his parents would have given to have such treatment available to him.