As far as injuries go, brain injuries can be among the most degenerative and difficult to understand. With all of our medical advances, doctors are still mostly in the dark when it comes to the brain.
With a record number of veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) and concussions now part of daily health discussions, where can people turn for help?
Well, one option that was covered by the Denver Post some weeks ago that caught my eye is hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). The idea is to saturate the body’s blood system with up to 15 times more oxygen than breathing air that is found in a typical room. With brain injuries, damaged brain cells often die or become dormant due to lack of oxygen. If your body can carry more healing oxygen to the brain, it can actually jumpstart itself to grow new capillaries to pump oxygen-rich blood to damaged tissues.
In the area, Rocky Mountain Hyperbaric Institute (RMHI) in Louisville is one of the go-to places for oxygen treatment. They specialize in brain injuries and chronic wound healing. Their hyperbaric oxygen therapy is FDA-approved and features the inhalation of 100% oxygen in a chamber where the atmospheric pressure is increased and controlled. And the results have been ongoing for decades, according to the RMHI website.
From traumatic brain injury to post traumatic stress disorder to post concussive syndrome, hyperbaric oxygen treatment has been shown to help increase cognitive ability, improve recovery in motor skills and decrease anti-depressant medication intake. And the best part of it is that it’s non-invasive.
Patients simply breathe air in a special chamber, and watch movies, listen to music, read or take a nap while receiving treatment. People typically come in three to five times per week over the course of six weeks.
While there is no guarantee regarding hyperbaric oxygen treatment, it offers hope to people who have brain injuries. When you have been suffering from something that is invisible, and nearly impossible to clearly diagnose, any potential treatment is a good thing.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves the breathing of pure oxygen while you are in a sealed chamber designed to hold either a single person, or a group of up to 12, that has been pressurized at 1-1/2 to 3 times the normal atmospheric pressure.
I have discovered the relevance of deep breathing relative to good metabolism the following is an approach:
DEEP BREATHING PANACEA Authored by Robert W. Severs
We begin with the criteria of energy as the process of healing. The process of healing is bringing about establishing your metabolism as it was originally created. The complications of metabolism are caused by the concepts of the ego mind and the interference of the ego mind on the perfection of who you are.
Most people do not realize the energy we receive from the atmosphere. The atmosphere is probably our greatest source energy, our greatest source of finding direction in how our bodies function in total and perfect union of our physicality and its metabolism. Metabolism of the physical is who we are. Metabolism protects and directs and stabilizes our health that the human function is thereby held in good health. The detriment to this not happening is because of the use and belief in our ego minds. Our ego minds are a detriment to functioning in perfect health because they introduce to each human being all the fallacies that we think are functioning/non-functioning truths, whereas they are not.
Deep breathing can transcend the maladies of the ego mind and correct the maladies of our ill health and our dysfunction of the maladies we suffer. Deep breathing is a means and a source of each individual being able to treat himself. Mr. A functioned as a practitioner, William Gray would meet with his clients, he diagnosed them through sound and he could go right to the element that was of the weakened condition. Therein he could supply the proper energy rejuvenation to that particular area and bring about a correction in the health of the patient. With the deep breathing process each individual has his opportunity of correcting it as his own mentor & as his own mentor just through the simplicity of deep breathing he can correct all elements that are detrimental to his metabolic processes. This is also includes the involvement with his psychological mind as well. Whether it be depression, Alzheimer’s, migraine headache all things of an emotional nature can also be corrected.
It is the most simple, most available, most successful means of bringing your metabolic abilities into balance. To bring you back into a normal standard of having your body functioning properly. So proceed to pursue the deep breathing processes to correct anything in your life that is bringing about dysfunction, that may be labeled as dysfunction and correct your life in the direction that you wish it would be and it will be on an automatic basis, you don’t have to think of it all you have to do is your deep breathing. Be aware that most humans are shallow breathers using but a small percentage of their lung capacity.
The deep breathing is a process of bringing about the correction, in bringing you to good health in all elements of your physicality, your psychological nature and your emotions.
So Be It!!
DEEP BREATHING METHOD
Here is some instruction on deep breathing procedure to get you started. As you go along modify it to what works best for you in your daily routine as each person develops his method.
1) Sit upright with ribcage free to expand during the exercise. Through the mouth (nose is too slow) draw in as much air to fill the lungs to capacity, you will find that you are filling areas that haven’t been touched for months or years. At the end of this take 4 or 5 quick intake gasps to overfill what you have done. At first it may tend to choke you as you fill dormant lung areas until you become accustom to the exercise.
2) Hold this position briefly and then give a comfortable exhale.
3) Repeat 3 times and as often a possible during your daily routine. If you put your mind to it you will find a multitude of opportunities to breathe on your own quietly and successfully. Experiment at bedtime to see if it may over stimulate you and your sleep, you may want to skip it at that time.