India. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Chamber for Equines:
Equine athletes treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy are better able to consistently compete at their
full potential. Our chambers have successfully treated over two hundred horses
with varying debilitating
injuries. Like any medical procedure results vary,
however the majority of horses showed vast
improvements and accelerated
healing over conventional treatment alone.
HBOT has made possible the complete
rehabilitation of horses with injuries
deemed to be career ending.
HBOT’s proven ability to accelerate healing of
minor wounds has
consistently returned horses back to the track,
saving an otherwise failed
season. Re injury rates are consistently lower
than without treatment.
HBOT sessions used for general preventative
athletic therapy and to treat minor
chronic disease and infection allow some
competition horses to race with
greater frequency. Horses who could previously
compete only
every 2-4 weekshave been able to step to the gate
weekly and
compete at their full potential.
The stable with access to a hyperbaric oxygen
therapy chamber has an
indispensable tool to sharpen their winning
edge.
Racing Taken to a New Level:
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for horses affording us the
opportunity to prove the benefits
and value to Thoroughbred and Standardbred
owners and trainers. The treatments
will be used on current in-training thoroughbred
and standardbred horses to
enhance post race recovery time. By
speeding the healing of injury due
to the wear and tear of racing (i.e. lung and
microcirculation damage), the
well being of the horses with allow them to race
more frequently, at higher levels.
Commonly Treated Conditions:
HBOT is one of the most powerful tools available
as an adjunctive form of
therapy, and in some cases it works well as the
primary therapy in horses.
Colic and laminitis are the number one and two
killers, respectively, of
horses, and oxygen therapy (in conjunction with
other therapies)
can be very useful in treating both.
• Colic:
HBOT helps restore blood flow to
tissues after colic
surgery. It also reduces obstructive swelling in
the intestinal tissue and
improves oxygenation of the resection (after
abdominal surgery to correct colon
torsion, small intestine strangulation, etc.)
It’s been found that many colic cases
respond much better to surgery when treated with
HBOT before and after surgery.
• Laminitis & Navicular Syndrome:
HBOT
can arrest laminitis in the early stages. If you can treat the horse
before the structures in the foot
collapse (before there is crushing of the blood
vessels), it is very effective.
• Infections:
HBOT increases blood flow to
the infection site,
which increases the amount of antibiotic
delivery. The extra oxygen also
increases the effectiveness of the antibiotic,
magnifying the way it works
against bacteria. High-dose oxygen tends to
potentiate the effect of some
antibiotics, such as sulfamethoxazole (SMZ). You
are also getting 15 times the
amount of oxygen to a tissue that was lacking
oxygen due to infection
of poor circulation. Oxygen also stimulates faster cell
turnover
and thus faster healing.
Certain antibiotics such as gentocin and amikacin don’t work well in low-oxygen
environments. Oxygen therapy enhances their function and gives a whole
combination of benefits. HBOT is an adjunctive therapy; you still use
antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs and other treatments.
It’s a component process in which everything is
working together.
* Oxygen acts to kill bacteria.
Most bacteria
causing serious infection are anaerobic—working best in an
environment
without oxygen. At pressure, with oxygen at a higher level, it is
also detrimental to aerobic
bacteria. Extra oxygen also helps white blood
cells function better to kill the organisms.
• Abscesses:
Internal abscesses (such as in
the lungs or the abdomen)
are sometimes not diagnosed early. By the time
they are diagnosed, there is a
thick-walled capsule of connective tissue around
them that keeps
antibiotics from reaching the site. This results in
prolonged
antibiotic treatment (often with no resolution of the abscess) at
high cost
to the owner, and potentially fatal consequences
for the horse. HBOT helps the
antibiotic get to the site
and enhances its ability to fight the infection.
• Septicemia and Joint Ill in Foals:
Major
clinics have evaluated HBOT for treating foals with septic joints. In
2002, all the foals which came
into the clinic with septic joints went through
a standard protocol using systemic antibiotics,
lavage to flush the joints
with antibiotics, etc. After 30 to 90 days of treatments, they
took the foals
which were hopeless (which would ordinarily be euthanized)
and moved them
to a test group. They continued to use their
standard treatments, but combined
them with HBOT.
They had a 60% recovery rate in foals which
were going to be
put down.
• Soft Tissue Injuries:
Many injuries
result in inflammation and swelling. Studies have shown that soft tissue
injuries
treated with HBOT recover in half the time. New blood vessels form
more quickly,
improving blood supply to injured areas, and there is swift
reduction in edema
(swelling). Since oxygen is normally carried by red blood
cells, any
tissues with a compromised blood supply suffer from
poor
healing. But with HBOT, oxygen is forced
into all body fluids and delivered to
areas
with restricted circulation.
* Injured tendons and ligaments respond well to
treatment;
HBOT can be useful in dealing with bowed tendons,
surgical repair of tendon or ligament
injuries, etc. Surgical traumas (incisions) also
heal faster with HBOT, as do
large surface wounds and pressure sores. It
decreases tissue
swelling and helpssalvage damaged tissues in traumatic
injury. In
chronic wounds, it assists growth of new
skin and stimulates collagen
production.
• Reproductive Problems:
A prominent DVM
wrote an article three years ago and described how he’d treated some older
stallions for laminitis and noticed an increase in fertility. After reading
that, Winstar (the first
Thoroughbred farm in Kentucky to have an HBOT
chamber) treated their stallion
“Kris S.” in the chamber, and there was a very
dramatic change. The stallion’s
covers in the breeding shed had declined, but
after HBOT treatments
his libido increased (along with his sperm count), and the
morphology (cell structure) of his
semen was much improved.
* HBOT has also worked well for mares they hadn’t
been able to get in foal.
Four out of five mares were treated one year, that
had been bred on multiple covers.
They were put in the HBOT chamber and got into
foal the next time they cycled.
And the integrity of the uterine lining was
probably enhanced.
A rehab clinic in the US has also treated mares
that were unable to concieve.
One mare went to the breeding shed 16 times in
two years without
becoming pregnant. After three treatments in the HBOT
chamber,
she was bred, and had a live, healthy foal.
• Dummy Foals and Other Neurological
Problems:
Used on dummy foals, it reduces edema. The oxygen in a pressure
chamber has the ability to penetrate
the cerebrospinal fluid. Head and spinal trauma
often create neurological damage, thought to result
from swelling of these
tissues within a confined space, loss of blood and oxygen supply,
and the
sequential effects of these factors on nervous tissue. HBOT reduces the
swelling and increases the blood supply.
Our Hyperbaric Chambers are affordable to your patients
& profitable to your farms
Talk to us for more information on how
Hyperbaric Oxygen chamber
would benefit your business.
Cell:91 - 9769 484 123 / 9769 006 123
Bird Medical Devices
(A Hyperbaric O2 Initiative)
Bombay, India. Tel f: 91-22-65655123
