Treatment for ADHD and sleep apnea are so far out of the realm of the use case for these chambers that there is certainly information being left out by the family here… or maybe that’s just being left out of this article.
This is an absolutely terrible piece of “journalism”, if you can even call it that. There is absolutely no comment in the article from the clinic, any of the defendants or their lawyers, or even a third party medical expert for contextual reference. The only information is from the family’s lawyer and a tiny bit of generic background you can Google in 5 seconds.
EDIT: Yeah, this article is just fucking terrible.
A former employee with a health care center that operated a hyperbaric oxygen therapy program where a 5-year-old boy died in an explosion said she reported concerns with safety practices to the center’s owner and safety director months before the child died.
Tiffany Hosey, who worked for nearly four years at the Oxford Center’s Brighton location as a research assistant and a hyperbaric technician, testified Monday in Troy’s 52-4 District Court that she raised concerns she had about safety to owner Tamela Peterson and safety director Jeffrey Mosteller, but they did not do anything about it.
When Hosey told them she was not comfortable working in the hyperbaric chambers with the safety concerns she had, she was let go, she said.
“My primary concern was we were not putting grounding straps on the patients going inside the hyperbaric chamber,” Hosey said. “This is a wrist strap the patient would wear during treatment. … It’s to reduce the risk of fire induced static electricity.”
Although that still doesn’t explain why they were suing the chamber for treatment of these diagnoses in the first place.
Earlier this year, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited wellness podcaster Gary Brecka at his home, where they hung out in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber before taping an episode of Brecka’s show.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has found a support network inside Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement, among wellness influencers and anti-aging gurus. Podcasters including Brecka and Joe Rogan have touted the benefits of the chambers, while a hyperbaric chamber manufacturer had a presence at this year’s MAHA Spring Gala in Florida.
And HBOT typically isn’t a one-and-done treatment. It can cos t$200 or more per treatment session, with dozens of sessions recommended. Thomas Cooper had been on his 36th of 40 treatments for attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and sleep apnea, the Detroit Free Press reported. The FDA has not approved HBOT for either condition.
They can if you claim they’re a medical treatment, they can’t make it illegal to hook up an oxygen generator to a room and offer time in it as a service
Holy smokes this is one of the best responses I’ve ever seen on the internet. Thanks for the information, breakdown and sources. One of the problems I’ve seen since the mass use of social media is that no matter the persons background so many people do the bare minimum. What I mean is they fall for clickbait headlines, only read the headlines, fail to check multiple sources. I get not everyone is a researcher but since we have computers in our hands it takes literally seconds to do searches.
Your research helped piece so much together and I hope the family absolutely destroys this company and make it a deterrent for others to misuse these treatments
Treatment for ADHD and sleep apnea are so far out of the realm of the use case for these chambers that there is certainly information being left out by the family here… or maybe that’s just being left out of this article.
This is an absolutely terrible piece of “journalism”, if you can even call it that. There is absolutely no comment in the article from the clinic, any of the defendants or their lawyers, or even a third party medical expert for contextual reference. The only information is from the family’s lawyer and a tiny bit of generic background you can Google in 5 seconds.
EDIT: Yeah, this article is just fucking terrible.
Although that still doesn’t explain why they were suing the chamber for treatment of these diagnoses in the first place.
Oh… of course.
36 of 40 treatments!? WTF!?
What part doesn’t make sense? 40x$200=$8k, and the FDA can’t regulate oxygen or pressure anymore than it could regulate water
This is the perfect snake oil, stay tuned for when they start using it to treat measles
The FDA can absolutely regulate machines that provide oxygen and pressure, though.
But they’re not going to.
They can if you claim they’re a medical treatment, they can’t make it illegal to hook up an oxygen generator to a room and offer time in it as a service
But yeah, no way they try
Holy smokes this is one of the best responses I’ve ever seen on the internet. Thanks for the information, breakdown and sources. One of the problems I’ve seen since the mass use of social media is that no matter the persons background so many people do the bare minimum. What I mean is they fall for clickbait headlines, only read the headlines, fail to check multiple sources. I get not everyone is a researcher but since we have computers in our hands it takes literally seconds to do searches. Your research helped piece so much together and I hope the family absolutely destroys this company and make it a deterrent for others to misuse these treatments
Some seem to think they are magical and can cure all diseases.
Relevant meme:
Misuse and lack of maintenance should be the sole culprit here, and the clinic should be held accountable for those.
Free radical: loose oxygen molecules that can cause cancer
Hyperbaric chambers: like, full of oxygen, crazy amounts of.
These fuckers will literally buy anything if it’s expensive enough.
Gotta pump you full of oxidants so I can sell you antioxidants.
Elevated oxygen levels will trigger blood vessel growth or angiogenesis, which causes a whole range of problems.
Holy cow…literally the illiterate leading the illiterate!!!