From:
http://pediatrics.medscape.com/reuters/prof/2001/02/02.23/20010222clin007.html
Children With Cerebral Palsy Do Not Benefit From Hyperbaric Oxygen
WESTPORT, CT (Reuters Health) Feb 22 - Children between the ages of 3 and
12 years with cerebral palsy related to perinatal hypoxia show no more
benefit from the use of hyperbaric oxygen than they do with slightly
pressurized room air, report Canadian researchers.
Dr. Jean-Paul Collet, from SMBD Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, and
associates report that treatment with hyperbaric oxygen, which might
theoretically increase oxygenation of the cerebral ischemic penumbra, is
often requested by families for their children with cerebral palsy.
To investigate the scientific validity of this approach, the investigators
studied children who had motor developmental age between 6 months and 4
years, and who had a history of hypoxia in the perinatal period.
As reported in the February 24th issue of The Lancet, 54 children were
randomly assigned to hyperbaric air at 1.3 atmospheres absolute, the lowest
pressure at which pressure can be felt, and 57 to hyperbaric 100% oxygen at
1.75 atmospheres absolute. The 60-minute sessions took place once a day, 5
days per week, for 8 weeks.
The investigators observed no significant differences between groups in
global changes in the gross motor function measure or the pediatric
evaluation of disability inventory, either at the end of the study or after
3 months of follow-up. However, subjects in the oxygen-treated group
experienced significantly more ear problems than their cohorts.
Dr. Collet and colleagues were struck by the finding that both groups
showed improved functionality at the end of the study. They attribute this
phenomenon to selection of very motivated parents and the increased
positive communication of the subjects with other children and with their
parents.
Lancet 2001;357:582-586.
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Three things jump out to me here. First the story here is that both the
trial group and the control group benefitted--this hardly means that there
is no benefit to High-Dosage Oxygen (HDO).
Yet this is not mentioned. On the contrary, read the story's headline,
"Children With Cerebral Palsy Do Not Benefit From Hyperbaric Oxygen".
The headline is a lie--as proven by the story itself.
Why is there such an overwhelming desire on the part of Medicine to keep my
son and your son and your daughter on the floor and not on their feet?
The second thing that jumps out is the total lack of understanding of
High-Dosage Oxygen on the part of "the researchers".
1.3 ata of pressurized air still creates High-Dosage Oxygen. It's not a
placebo.
Further confirmation of the lack of understanding of HDO: (from the next to
the last paragraph below) "However, subjects in the oxygen-treated group
experienced significantly more ear problems than their cohorts."
The treatment group had ear problems--which meant several things. If they
were trying to take the children to pressure at the same time, and if they
wanted the 1.3 group to "feel pressure", then the 1.75 group must have been
taken to pressure in the same time frame, i.e., if they took the "control"
group to pressure in say, 3 minutes (anything slower and they might not
have been able to feel any pressure), then they must have taken the trial
group to pressure in 3 minutes too.
If that was the scenario then its it must have been murder for the kids in
the trial group. Think the daily earache would have influenced them?
This is just further proof that Collet and his "researchers" didn't know
what they were doing since they obviously didn't know the first thing about
HDO.
Third, this was not a double-blind controlled study. If anything it it's a
deliberate attempt at sabotauge.
Back to the ear problems--the "researchers" knew which kids were in the
trial group and which were in the control group--as did the study
participants.
Now, since this "study" was paid for/sponsored by the Canadian
government--who is being pressured to reimburse HDO by parents of
brain-injured children who have seen the improvements in their own
kids--and suppose the government doesn't want to pay for HDO (governments
have a long history of not wanting anything to do with something that works
and will put a stop to anything that does), what better way to disprove
something than to take the blinders off a double-blind controlled study?
Notice there were no SPECT-scans as part of the study protocol. How could
Collet explain that? He probably doesn't know anything about SPECT-scans.
How could he? He doesn't know the first thing about which his own life and
neurological function depends.
Oxygen.
There are further HDO trials in the works. The Collets will be proven to be
the incompetents that they are.
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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form
of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson, an early advocate of
High-Dosage Oxygen.
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David Freels
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