(BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS) -- In hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), a person enters a special chamber to breathe in pure oxygen in air pressure levels one-and-a-half to three times higher than average
The first documented use of came before the discovery of oxygen, when, in 1662, British clergyman named Henshaw used a system of organ bellows to change the atmospheric pressure in a sealed chamber called a domicilium. Even though he had no scientific basis for his theories, Henshaw believed that acute conditions would benefit from increased air pressure, while chronic conditions would respond better to decreased air pressure. Since it was first used about a century ago in the US as medical treatment to fill the blood with enough oxygen to repair tissues and restore normal body function.