Oxygen Treatment For Broken Collarbone.

This has just been suggested to me to help heal a broken collarbone. I was not aware of it. Just wondering if it’s worth a punt?

Who suggested it? Lots of quackery in that field.

a friend of a friend who’s had it. Said it worked for her.   I’m usually in the snake oil camp so thought I’d seek varied opinions on her.

Does she have any idea how well/quickly it would have healed without oxygen?

IANAD but surely if there were any independently verified evidence that this worked hospitals would be all over it as it will be orders of magnitude cheaper to prescribe than cutting some of your patients open to screw bits of metal in?

Is it in an hyperbaric chamber or just breathing it in? An ex-colleague went into an hyperbaric chamber to help her MS via the NHS. I think her husband had a few sessions as well after his knee replacements.

I’ve had hyperbaric O2 therapy for  broken/partially severed fingers. I’m of the opinion that it definitely helped the healing process. It was self funded at a chamber not far from where I live. There’s nothing to lose by giving it a try. Results are difficult to quantify but in the same circumstances I’d do it again.

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I suspect you’re talking about hyperbaric oxygen.. I e delivered IN a driving center pressure chamber…

I’m not actually sure on the evidence (I mean, I’ve no idea if it does or doesn’t work)… Some local surgeons have suggested it sporadically… Not sure how to interpret that.

I might read up on it..

DrP

delivered IN a driving center pressure chamber…

Is that just for the re-test when you’re old, or are they going to make young’uns do it too? 😉

I had a quick looksee for Cochrane Reviews and there’s nothing recommending it for orthopaedic purposes.

I did notice that Darryl Brown used it for his femur last year. But it would be difficult to prove that it works better than not doing it I guess.

I was talking to a couple at my art stall and I mentioned my ankle, and the fact it still hurt, when the asked when I started painting. They looked at each other and then back at me and said in serious but caring voices – We will pray for you and for your ankle.

Amazingly it doesn’t appear to have changed much in appearance or pain levels but who knows how bad it would be if they hadn’t prayed?

We will pray for you and for your ankle.

I’ve had that out & about with my son (he’s got CP). No change so they didn’t pray hard enough.

So hard to not go off on a rant when they come out with this tripe. If a god would listen to their prayers, why did he/she allow a baby to become injured at birth in the first place.

Yep. It is always a ‘miracle from God who loves little children’ when something gets better but never seems to be ‘damnation from God who is a right evil git’ when something goes wrong.

I occasionally ask “If your God is all seeing and all knowing then why does he need you lot to pray for cures as surely he knows and sees the suffering already and should be smart enough to realise that the victim doesn’t want that”.

There are variety of answers but basically all return to “Don’t question our God, it just a miracle caused by us praying”

Mysterious ways…mysterious ways… wooooooohhhhh….

happy to accept that smoking impairs the healing process… due to the fact that you are reducing the levels of O2 in your system.

as was spotted, that should say DIVING centre..NOT driving centre!!!

DrP

I read that as ‘we will pay for you’……..

(Based on them asking when you started painting).

Perhaps they could see something in the painting that nobody else could see.

Does she have any idea how well/quickly it would have healed without oxygen?

Without oxygen I’d suggest the chances of any sort of recovery are very very low.

Pretty sure that it’s a recognised treatment for frostbite.

Also, don’t the French have a few of big “walk in” type hyperbaric chambers for treating various things?

I know there was tragic accident in France a few years back, when a patient took his fags in and lit up! Absolutely horrific.