Tai Chi For Fibromyalgia: How Evidence Is Done

Aspiring hyperbaric medicine clinical investigators take note. In last month's New England Journal of Medicine, "A Randomized Trial of Tai Chi for Fibromyalgia" put the lie to the myth that it's next to impossible to produce first-class evidence for alternative medicine. Still, it takes money, plenty of money. Big Pharma didn't fund this study, Big Government did—the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, to be precise, a section of the National Institutes of Health. The results should be motivating for HBOT researchers, who could secure like funding if they tried harder, and especially welcome news for people living with fibromyalgia.

O2.O is the news blog of HyperbaricLink, the independent web guide to hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

HBOT Attracting More And More NFL Players

So it took us a few extra weeks to get into this football season, after the first signs of a change in the weather and the first Michigan victory—or maybe it's all this talk about hyperbaric oxygen therapy. HBOT has been blitzing the sports blogosphere. It's rather predictable and pedestrian stuff over at Skinny Post. All the usual suspects. But the Washington Post's Dan Steinberg raises some interesting questions about players' differing "beliefs" in HBOT for speedier rehab from injury and, more surprising, their worries that hyperbaric oxygen may suddenly be banned like other performance enhancing drugs. We've often wondered the same.

O2.O is the news blog of HyperbaricLink, the independent web guide to hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Weekly Web Roundup: 5 September 2010

Greetings from the relaxing end of another predictably slow hyperbaric news week, as summer draws to a close and a nation rests up for more hard work. Here at HyperbaricLink we've taken this opportunity to tinker with a few features and functions. Please take another look around and let us hear your thoughts and ideas for the season ahead.

SCIENCE

Urologists in Athens, Greece, publishing in the July-August issue of Undersea Hyperbaric Medicine, note the spontaneous disappearance of a hydrocele (swollen scrotum) in the case of a patient treated with hyperbaric oxygen for decompression sickness. Bonus.

PRESS/BUSINESS

Florida Hospital Waterman, Tavares FL, was selected as a Center of Excellence, the only center in Florida to earn the recognition by Shared Health Services, Johnson City TN.

PATIENT STORIES

With time to kill in the hyperbaric chamber, for recovery from a concussion, Los Angeles Kings defenseman Willie Mitchell has found healing, clarity, and motivation for his return to hockey.

NEW HBOT CENTERS

Thank you, Green Bay Press-Gazette, for acquainting us with the new Wound Healing Center at Bellin Hospital, Green Bay WI, plus two "off-label" HBOT clinics: Green Bay Hyperbarics in Ashwaubenon and the Wisconsin Integrative Hyperbaric Center in Fitchburg.

Weatherford Regional Medical Center, Weatherford TX, unveils its new Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center.

We learn of the Wound Care Center at Good Samaritan Health System, Lebanon PA, by way of a newspaper story about a Marine recovering from a roadside bombing in Iraq.

HyperbaricLink adds Bucyrus Community Hospital, Bucyrus OH, to its list with the announcement of the hospital's welcome participation in the ACHM radionecrosis registry.

Walnridge Equine, Cream Ridge NJ, now offers veterinary HBOT, you know, like, for horses.

O2.O is the news blog of HyperbaricLink, the independent web guide to hyperbaric oxygen therapy.