Salam dan selamat sejahtera,
Post kali ini saya ingin berkongsi pengalaman mengenai rawatan alternatif untuk mereka yang diserang stroke.Disebabkan saya bukan orang yang boleh menerangkan jenis dan tahap stroke yang dihidapi bapa saya jadi saya akan terangkan dengan apa yang saya lihat dan faham.
Bermula dengan keadaan letih dan sering tidur,beliau juga kurang selera makan.Sesekali mengadu sakit kepala dibahagian tepi kepala.Sakit kepala teramat sangat bila timbul urat dibahagian tepi.Pada hari untuk pergi ke hospital beliau berasa amat sakit kepala,berpeluh-peluh,tiba dipintu beliau muntah.Apabila keputusan hospital keluar,beliau disahkan mengalami stroke akibat gula dalam darah tinggi.Mengikut doktor ada tiga sumbatan dalam urat.Seperti penghidap stroke,kesan pada beliau ialah agak lemah untuk berjalan dan mengimbang badan.Selepas keluar dari hospital kami disaran untuk mencuba rawatan HBOT atau Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.
Apa yang lihat,beliau sangat bertenaga selepas menjalani rawatan.Pada kali ketiga rawatan,saya dan keluarga berkesempatan untuk menemani beliau.Beliau perlu dipimpin dan berpaut pada paginya untuk ke tempat rawatan.Selepas rawatan beliau sudah boleh berjalan sendiri,walaupun agak perlahan tapi beliau ke kereta tanpa perlu dipimpin.
Apa yang saya ingin kongsi disini ialah rawatan HBOT yang terkenal ini dapat membantu dalam penyembuhan dari segi fizikal.Kami melakukan rawatan ini sebanyak sepuluh kali atas nasihat doktor yang merawatnya dan beliau sangat berpuas hati dengan keputusan bapa saya.Alhamdulillah sekarang beliau dapat melakukan aktiviti harian semula.Dari segi ubatan, beliau mengambil ambil apa yang diberi oleh hospital dan alternatif.Kos rawatan pada masa itu lebih kurang RM 5000.Untuk pengetahuan pembaca,bapa saya berumur 69 tahun semasa diserang stroke.
Tempat rawatan di klinik ebrahim & surgeri malaysia
Dibawah adalah info mengenai HBOT dalam bahasa inggeris dan link dibawah
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Helps in Stroke Recovery
Hyperbaric-therapy
More than 700,000 Americans suffer a stroke each year, with two-thirds surviving and requiring some type of rehabilitation.1 The widely accepted standard rehabilitation treatment is not meant to “cure” the effects of stroke because it cannot reverse any brain damage. Rather, its goal is to help a stroke survivor become as independent as possible—often with only partial success, unfortunately.
But there is a treatment that can wake up neurons in the brain that otherwise are considered dormant or dysfunctional as a result of stroke. It can produce such truly miraculous results that it’s hard to believe it’s not a regular part of rehabilitation for every single stroke survivor.
Understanding Stroke
During a stroke, blood flow is restricted or completely cut off in a portion of the brain, causing the cells in that area to die. While the cells directly affected by the “attack” can’t be revived, the surrounding cells around the injured area can be.
You see, those neighboring cells become dysfunctional or “stunned” due to the damage the stroke caused to the surrounding blood vessels. Without adequate blood flow to the area, the amount of oxygen that gets delivered to those cells is severely limited. It’s enough to keep them alive for months—even years—after a stroke, but not enough for them to function normally or generate new synaptic connections.
Those cells need a major “jolt” to get moving again. And research shows that hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is just the jolt they need.
Pure Oxygen Reenergizes Cells
During an HBOT session, the patient lies in a special pressurized chamber and breathes in 100 percent pure oxygen. The hyperbaric oxygen saturates the patient’s blood and quickly increases the concentration of oxygen in the blood, particularly in injured areas that have a poor blood supply. The higher concentration of pure oxygen heals wounds and areas of tissue damage, reduces swelling and builds new blood vessels. In the case of stroke, the dormant cells around the immediate area of injury “wake up” and start working again.
HBOT’s remarkable effects on stroke recovery were highlighted in a recently published study. This trial involved 59 patients who suffered either an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke six to 36 months prior to the start of the study and had at least one motor dysfunction.2
Researchers randomly assigned patients to either the treatment (HBOT) group or cross group (serving as a control group for two months, then undergoing HBOT). The participants in the treatment group received two evaluations—at baseline and after two months of HBOT. The cross group got three evaluations—at baseline, after two months of no treatment and after two months of HBOT. Evaluations included questionnaires covering the ability to perform various functions such as bathing, dressing, grooming, brushing teeth, walking, climbing stairs, eating, cooking, doing housework, driving, etc. Brain scans and quality of life evaluations were also performed.
The HBOT protocol involved 40 daily sessions, 90 minutes each, five days a week.
Amazingly, almost every single study volunteer who underwent HBOT—both in the treatment group and in the HBOT-treated cross group—saw substantial improvements in their daily activities, neurological evaluations, brain scans and quality of life. These results become even more significant considering the participants in the control (no treatment) period of the cross group experienced absolutely no improvement in any of the evaluation measures.
Most notably, brain images after HBOT showed that the treatment led to “reactivations of neuronal activity in the stunned areas…. The changes in activity were sufficiently robust to be clearly detected.” The researchers further concluded, “The observed reactivation of neuronal activity in the stunned areas imply that increasing the plasma oxygen concentration with hyperbaric oxygen is a potent means of delivering to the brain sufficient oxygen for tissue repair.” Furthermore, they stated that the neurological improvements after HBOT can even occur long after the stroke, meaning it’s never too late to seek this therapy.
Side effects of HBOT are minimal, with the most common adverse reaction being ear pain.
Finding HBOT Near You
Many complementary physicians, hospitals and outpatient treatment facilities offer HBOT for treatment of stroke and other neurological diseases (Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injuries and cerebral palsy), inflammatory conditions like fibromyalgia and arthritis, wounds, ulcers and carbon monoxide poisoning.
If you have experienced any of these conditions and traditional treatments have failed, we recommend giving HBOT a try. To find a location near you, visit Hyperbaric Link.
References:
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/stroke/poststrokerehab.htm.
Efrat S, et al. PLoS One. 2013;8(1):e53716.
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