This pattern of
response first seen in a stroke patient of Dr. Neubauer's and then
in the boxers and divers was yet another generic response to HBOT
that I identified in the vast majority of the fifty additional
diagnoses, including the first cerebral palsy case in North America
(Harch PG, Gottlieb SF, Staab P, Van Meter KW. HMPAO SPECT Brain
Imaging and Low Pressure HBOT in the Diagnosis and Treatment of
Chronic Traumatic, Ischemic, Hypoxic, and Anoxic Encephalopathies.
Undersea and Hyper Med, 1994;21(Suppl):30.
In other words,
if one HBOT could change the pattern of brain blood flow in a
neurologically abnormal patient to a more normal pattern, this was
evidence that that injured brain could positively and permanently
respond to a course of HBOT.
In summary, Chairman Burton, we have a treatment, right now, for
autism, that combines these two proven therapies.
It produces
demonstrable results as you have seen today. We also have a
treatment for acute and chronic brain injury that is so simple,
giving oxygen, specifically hyperbaric oxygen, as to be astounding
that is not more universally applied in the field of medicine. Given
the research and experience to date and its potential application to
autism I do not hesitate to tell you that HBOT will revolutionize
the treatment of brain injury in the world.
Thank you for
this opportunity.
Paul Harch, M.D., President
International Hyperbaric Medical Association
