Currently, all of my impetus for doing HBOT comes from anecdotal evidence--ie praises made for the technology from other moms who also have children with Cerebral Palsy. While the medical community eshews anecdotal evidence, I have found through my career of improving Naomi's life, that motherhood desire to improve the life of ones child can be second to none. Also I look for people for which a particular therapy doesn't work. One alterative doctor said to me that almost no therapy works for more than 80% of the population--just hope you are in the 80%, not the 20%. To that end, I haven't found anyone who has spent the time, paid the money and been unhappy with the results of HBOT.
I also do a lot of research and read medical journals to see what scientifically has been proven in clinical trials as well. Here is a study of HBOT for diplegic CP kids who had reached a plateau in their gross motor skill function prior to HBOT. This study indicates that there was quite a bit of success. Naomi is (thankfully) hemi-plegic (one-sided involvement) rather than di-plegic (two sides of involvement), but one can extrapolate results.
http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/dspace/bitstream/123456789/2324/1/10642070.pdf
Do you have a story? Can you say that HBOT therapy wasn't worth the money? Was it the best thing to happen to either you or your child? Tell your story here!
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