Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Can it Improve Mental Health?

Mental health conditions such as ADHD, ADD, panic attacks, suicidal tendencies, PTSD and bipolar conditions can be exacerbated by traumatic brain injury. Even mild brain injuries can cause damage. Many people are unaware that they have had head trauma that has affected their brains. These can be caused by an auto accident, physical altercations, contact sports, getting hit in the head accidentally with an object, and more.

Low Blood Flow
While not all mental health conditions are due to direct impact to the brain, many are due to low blood flow. If left untreated, low blood flow and brain injury will cause cognitive decline and brain issues later in life. Low blood flow is connected to mental health disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, addictions, and anxiety to name a few.

Many studies have shown significant improvement in mental health, decreased depression, decreased pain and other disorders associated with mental health conditions when patients underwent HBOT (Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy).

Studies on the Effects of HBOT for PTSD, Depression, Pain, Anxiety and Distress
A study in 2011 looked at military soldiers that had PTSD and other mental health issues. Brain imaging was done before and after 40 sessions of HBOT. The results showed increased blood flow after HBOT as well as marked improvement in mood, anxiety, quality of life scores and impulse reactions.

Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is thought to be connected to childhood trauma and sexual abuse. Some of the symptoms are pain, fatigue, PTSD, and brain fog. An Israeli study on fibromyalgia due to sexual abuse studied 40 female survivors of childhood sexual abuse suffering from fibromyalgia. The two-year long study showed that the women treated with HBOT along with psychotherapy had significant improvement in all measures of quality of life, including symptoms of fibromyalgia, and showed improvement in brain functionality, PTSD symptoms and psychological distress.

HBOT
Everything in your body depends on the brain. It’s the command center of your body, and it craves oxygen. While it makes up only 2% of the body’s mass, the brain uses over 20% of the oxygen we breathe in. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy involves breathing 100% pure oxygen in a special room known as a HBOT suite. The air in the suite is pressurized to above atmospheric levels, which increases oxygen levels in the body to 10-15 times higher than normal.

Aviv Clinics Are Unique

There are two key processes that make
Aviv Distinctive:
• First, we increase the oxygen level you breathe through a mask in the HBOT suite. As you breathe it in, your bloodstream sends this oxygen to tissue in your body that has been deprived of it. Oxygen-saturated blood can bypass blood vessels which have become clogged or narrowed with age. This gives the brain the energy it needs to turbocharge the healing process.
• Second, we fluctuate the level of oxygen you breathe when inside the HBOT suite. This variation in oxygen supply triggers your body’s own regenerative mechanisms.

What does this do to my body?
Your body is capable of powerful natural rejuvenation. By combining these two steps, we’re essentially switching your rejuvenation processes on, while supplying the body with the abundant energy it needs to complete them. By the end of your treatment program, you should see a significant improvement in your mental and physical performance and feel better inside and out.

About Aviv
Since 2017, Aviv Clinics at The Villages® primary focus has been on healthspan—helping patients feel healthy, stay active, and enjoy the vitality of both mind and body. Aviv Clinics delivers a highly effective personalized protocol to enhance performance in the aging brain and body via the Aviv Medical Program.

Our unique, intensive program aims to improve the aging process by increasing cognitive and physical performance in healthy aging adults. Based on over a decade of research and development the Aviv Medical Program is individually tailored to you, helping you achieve new standards of performance by your brain and body.

HBOT | Personalized Cognitive & Physical Training | Nutritional Counseling
The Aviv Medical Program provides you with a unique opportunity to invest in your health while you age, helping you maximize your cognition, vitality, and quality of life. We have created a state-of-the-art Program which combines Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), personalized program of cognitive and physical training and nutritional coaching.

The aging process affects us all differently. This is why our multidisciplinary team of healthcare specialists uses in-depth assessments and analytics to create a plan fully personalized for you.

The result is a comprehensive treatment designed to help you enhance your cognitive and physical performance, and feel at your best, at any age.

AVIV Clinics was originally founded in Israel, and operates a highly regarded research center there, as well as a world-class treatment center in The Villages, Florida.

Aviv Clinics at The Villages®
We’re excited to launch Aviv Clinics at The Villages® in collaboration with The Villages Health. Together, our shared vision is to help you enhance and nurture brain and body to ensure a continuously happy, vital and healthy life.

Here, across our three specialty wings you’ll have access to the latest advancements in treating and improving cognitive and physical performance:
1. The Hyperbaric Wing with our state-of-the-art hyperbaric oxygen treatment suites
2. The Neurocognitive Wing for cognitive evaluation and training
3. The Physiological Wing for physiological assessment and therapy

We have combined the world’s most innovative treatment program for improving cognitive and physical performance improvement, with the opportunity to experience the amazing lifestyle available to you in central Florida.

Focus on your health and let us take care of the rest!

Contact Aviv Clinics today at
(352) 488-2848 or visit our website at
Aviv-clinics.com for more information.