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Private hyperbaric oxygenation for tissue injury in the West of Ireland
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Brian Lynch, a Galway based solicitor discloses a conflict of interest: firstly as a solicitor practicing law and secondly as part owner of OxyGeneration, a company providing private hyperbaric oxygenation. This involves breathing oxygen under pressure in a chamber, which has a scientific basis for the known benefits on injured tissue no matter where in the body, especially topical now for the brain for concussion. Nevertheless, Mr. Lynch successfully used 57 daily sessions of hyperbaric oxygenation in Dublin to recover from a horse riding accident in 2015. “The purpose was to tip the balance for a complete recovery in my favour as my recovery was in doubt” said Mr. Lynch.
As a lawyer, he became aware of both the numerous emergency medicine applications in hospitals as well as private clinics for non-emergency uses of hyperbaric oxygenation. Of legal interest is the circumstantial evidence. The scientific proof uses technology such as before and after blood markers at cellular level, endoscopic videos and SPECT scans as well as clinical measurable assessment as to why this hyperbaric oxygenation works. As a current advocate for OxyGeneration, he says “at the time of my using the treatments, for me it was a case of; if it was good enough for John Magnier’s million dollar bloodstock and good enough for well-known players for sports injuries for rapid recovery, it was definitely good enough for me.”
Nonetheless, as a result, Mr. Lynch was filled with passion to make this vital non-intrusive treatment available, he brought OxyGeneration to Merchants Road in Galway.
Unfortunately for him, he had severe and multiple injuries including traumatic tissue injury, a shattered pelvic fracture, pain, lung tissue injury, nerve ending tissue injury and urology reconstruction surgery (reconnecting tube that takes urine from bladder) that might not work resulting in possible lifelong infection issues. “Nevertheless, my good news story is that I experienced rapid recovery from both severe pain and shortened my time using nappy like incontinence pads. Of great significance however, I more than halved the standard expected time for pelvic fractures in a wheelchair” said Mr. Lynch.
Oxygenation under pressure at an OxyGeneration pressure cabin is key to dissolving greatly increased oxygen in hypoxic (shortage of oxygen) tissue using pressure. After all, the decreased volume of oxygen makes it possible to reach otherwise unreachable injured tissue. This is what helps to rapidly reduce pain and inflammation. Sitting in the OxyGeneration pressure cabin is like sitting in a small jet aircraft when your ears pop with the pressure. Brian Lynch joked that the experience in a session relaxed him and gave him a half a Gin and Tonic sensation.
Mr Lynch speaking from his background in the legal profession said: “A doctor must take reasonable care to able to give balanced information about all reasonable treatment options. What’s reasonable is determined by a judge stepping into the shoes of a reasonable person in the patient’s position and determining what information would that patient consider significant? The decision maker in healthcare law is the patient. The treatment options must be given prior to a valid informed consent. The key question is: would the patient want to know about oxygenation as a treatment option? “Of course one would,” says Mr. Lynch. “A lot of opioid addictive pain medication, anti-inflammatories and blood thinners in heart disease will be superseded by hyperbaric oxygenation if patients are given balanced information. Many current medical procedures and operations such as unnecessary limb amputations or unnecessary intestine surgery or unnecessary urology operations will become redundant when people are given the choice”.
If doctors in a variety of medical specialities in Europe don’t see the big question is: What percentage will become redundant? in this case, they are wrong. One can google about it as just one Tel Aviv University Hospital alone is treating up to two hundred people a day with hyperbaric oxygenation”.
Incidentally, its used for Long COVID for the same scientific reasons of reaching injured tissue which will be discussed as well as other applications in the next six weeks in different articles in the coming weeks.
I drove to Dublin especially for 37 of my daily session when discharged from hospital. From Roscommon to OxyGeneration in Galway would take half that time.
Next week, there will be an article in this paper on why the GAA are likely to be persuaded by management, players, and GPs to make the consultant medical community change Concussion Guidelines to include this type of oxygenation.
Talk to your GP, send this article to a friend in need and google about it. OxyGeneration can be contacted at 091 394444