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Pediatric Cerebral Palsy treated by 1.5 ATA Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

A pilot study
Barrett, Kevin M.D., et al.
(Professor of Hyperbaric Medicine,
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas).

Five children, average age 41.8 months, were treated with 1.5 ATA Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for a total of sixty treatments administered for one hour daily, five days per week.

The authors conclude that Hyperbaric oxygen therapy effected improvements in tests of gross motor and fine motor function and decreased Spasticity. Results were measured by the modified Ashworth Spasticity score in patients with chronic cerebral palsy.

Functional reorganization in the visual cortex is suggested by the reappearance of visual evoked potentials, where none had existed before HBOT.

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