[Joshua]

Hello Everyone,

I was wondering if any one had tried hyperbaric chamber treatments for their TOS. If anyone has, I would be very grateful to know how you fared with this treatment.

Thank You

Joshua

[watsonsh]

HI Joshua,

I have tried HBOT threatments following my TOS surgery. I thought they were successful but expensive. They definetely helped the spasms.

Let me know if you have other questions.

Thanks

[olecyn]

I personally have NOT had them done
I have a friend who is having them
She goes to Issels treatment Center in Santa Barbara
And swears by them.
search Issels treatment center on the web
Anything that helps...

[Jomar]

There is a lot of information about HBOT on our RSD forum.

[beth]

Hi Joshua,

On one of the earlier incarnations of the MGH BrainTalk TOS board an RN named Heather Guhl was doing research into the use of HBOT for TOS. I believe she found it would benefit many TOSer's, though not all could tolerate it due to co-existing health conditions. She ended up working with an HBOT center or chain of centers, I believe in CA. Unfortunately, the expense isn't covered by insurance, and many sessions are usually required. And outside of CA, free-standing centers are hard to find.

However, if you have access to one and can cover the cost or get insurance to do so, I think it would be very beneficial.

Can anyone provide the link to the WayBack Machine and from there to the MGH forum archived posts from 2000 or so? I know those posts were from before I came (2003), but I used to prowl through them- many crashes ago.
It's a real shame so much valuable information was never recovered.

[ocgirl]

Joshua,

I have the HBOT information Beth spoke about from the old Braintalk forum.

It took me quite a while to get it posted last night as it has lots of information.

This morning when I came to the board it had been removed from the board by a moderator. There were things in her post that went against the terms of service of NeuroTalk; such as her personal information and they don't post copyrighted material here, they say that the Braintalk info belongs to Braintalk.

If you want the info I'd be happy to e-mail it to you if you want to send me a PM.
I worked on taxes for the past two days and these arms just can't do all the editing that NeuroTalk moderators are requesting.

Sincerely,
Martha

[Jomar]

I copied the info and saved it on my HD too {just in case}.

I hope you are feeling better Martha.

[Curious]

i would like to clarify ocgirls post as to why the posts were removed.

the posts contained very personal information such as home phone number and address. all the the persons ( who is not a memember here) work history complete with dates and addresses.

this is totally not appropriate for us or anyone to post about another person.

the post was copied including all of braintalks information, which we do not have the right to post here.

please take the time to read the guidlines and the tos here. this was also not just one mods editing, but the team as a whole along with the admin.