Lions Club Promotes Healing Through Hyperbaric Oxygen
by The Lion
posted by Cambridge Lions
Let’s hear it for the Elburn, Illinois, Lions Club. In a community with a population of only 3,300, the Elburn Lions Club numbers 200 members, including 42 Melvin Jones Fellows. Founded in 1928, the Elburn Lions Club funds and supports an extensive range of activities at every level. Among its many projects, the club hosts a hyperbaric oxygen chamber twice a year in the 26-acre Lions Park in te cener of Elburn. The park has proved a major asset in the community, and with its ideal location, is the site of about 70 events a year. “Lions’ help has been priceless,” says Carrie Capes, of nearby Maple Park. “We learned of the benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for our son Max from a parent support gorup. He’s four-and-a-half and has a genetic condition called mitochondrial metabolic disorder. This manifests itself with neurological symptoms that include shakiness, low muscle tone, poor motor planning, speech difficulties and mild hearing impairment. After 164 treatments, Max has made rapid strides.” ….
…During hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), the patient breathes pure, 100 percent oxygen under increased atmospheric pressure. The air we normally breathe contains only 19-21 percent of this essential element. The concentration of oxygen normally dissolved in the blood stream is thus raised many times above normal - up to 2,000 percent. In addition to the blood, all body fluids, including teh lymph and cerebrospinal fluids, are infused with teh healing benefits of the molecular oxygen…..