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Aerobic exercise is considered beneficial for those with Alzheimer’s because it also brings oxygen to the brain. I wonder if anyone has tried hyperbaric oxygen since I understand it is an approved treatment although not covered by insurance.

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What happened to her post that had many responses on it?? I added the link to the study. Many others had comments. What the heck, Admin??
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igloo572 Oct 2022
G, it was great that you posted the link. The study is real, small set of participants in a foreign county, but valid.
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Admin, what happened with the thread with all the posts?
If duplicate ? are going to be 86’d, maybe keep the one with responses!
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Here's one study:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293997

"While Hyperbaric oxygen is not FDA-approved for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, off-label use allows physicians to treat and provide benefits in Alzheimer’s patients."

https://www.nationalhyperbaric.com/hbot-treatments-and-conditions/alzheimers-disease
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Are you talking about putting someone in a Hyperbaric chamber? IMO, this would never work for some suffering from a Dementia. I have seen these chambers and it gives me claustrophobia just thinking about them. I read a patient would be in one for 90 min or 2 hours. Don't think u will get a Dementia person to sit in one for that long. They would need to be sedated.

"Cost is about $450 for a two-hour session — and for-profit management companies that do much of the work, nearly 1,300 U.S. hospitals have installed hyperbaric facilities."

These chambers would be hard to find. My daughter worked woundcare for a company that subcontract with the hospital. That company brought in a chamber mainly for diabetics. It seems though, they have been found to help with cognitivity because it helps circulate the blood in the brain. But, its seems a lot of sessions are involved.

Here is an article but the highlighted part seems to be off session wise or I am reading it wrong. There are only 1440 min in a day. If you take 60 sessions at 90 min each...thats 5440 min a day. I think its suppose to say 6 sessions daily. Even that is 9 hrs a day.

https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05349318
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