How IHHT Can Breathe New Life Into Your Practice
As a doctor of chiropractic, physical therapist, or integrated specialist, you’re always seeking new and convenient solutions to elevate your patients’ overall health and wellness.
In the same way, each patient who walks into your practice is looking for more than just an adjustment or a quick fix. They’re chasing consistent, helpful therapy options that can improve their quality of life in the long term.
That’s exactly where an effective, seamless, and easy-to-adapt-to therapy option, such as Intermittent Hypoxia/Hyperoxia Training (IHHT) can make all the difference.
IHHT isn’t a new practice by any means, but it’s slowly and steadily becoming a more popular route for patients and practitioners seeking effective treatments that offer easy healing for patients and a hefty return on investment for practices.
That beautiful balance means that healthcare providers can change the way their patients heal and recover while boosting their practice profits and managing their bottom line better than ever. But what is IHHT in the first place, and most importantly, what benefits does it offer your patients?
For an in-depth insight and a streamlined definition of IHHT, how it works, and what you need to know about this therapy, we recommend downloading our detailed eBook, Breathe New Life Into Your Practice
For now, though, continue reading. We’ll explore the basics of IHHT, explain how it can benefit your patients, and, moreover, dip into how your practice can find advantages by including this therapeutic method.
What is Intermittent Hypoxia/Hyperoxia Training?
IHHT could be the game-changer that your practice and patients are looking for. Imagine a seamless, and easy-to-use (and adapt to) solution that changes the way your patients heal.
That’s precisely what this proven adjunct therapy option can provide.
This type of therapy manipulates the body’s oxygen state using hyperoxic intervals between hypoxic breathing sessions. IHHT therapy intentionally drives the body into a low O2 (hypoxic) state (briefly) before automatically driving it into a high O2 (hyperoxic) state. Put another way, it’s the repeated episode of hypoxia interspersed with hyperoxic episodes.
Though this type of therapy can provide many different benefits, it has one overarching goal–to regulate and maintain oxygen homeostasis by optimizing the oxygen transport system. This therapy is well-tolerated by most patients, is pain-free, and can often provide tangible results without the use of pharmacological intervention.
IHHT is under constant evaluation for further support of these claims, but most evidence supports effective patient healing within clinical practices.
The Effectiveness & Advantages of IHHT
Understanding what IHHT is doesn’t answer the most pressing question on most healthcare providers’ minds.
What everyone truly wants to know and understand is this–what can IHHT do, and how well can it do it?
Over the past 20+ years, many hypoxic training regimens with periodic hypoxia were developed, with proven effectiveness in the treatment of cardiovascular, metabolic, neurological disorders, allergies and bronchial asthma, diabetes, and many other common diseases.
IHHT has been pinned as a therapy that can have positive impacts on patients’ bodies, make substantial changes in their healing, and improve their overall well-being.
The Link Between IHHT, Inflammation, Weight Loss, & Neuropathy Symptom Reduction
Though the benefits of IHHT are vast, many studies support the specific benefits of using IHHT for improvement in inflammation, reduction of neuropathy symptoms, and successful weight loss.
Inflammation & IHHT
As a healthcare practitioner, you’re already well-versed in how common varying degrees of inflammation are among your patients. As this condition persists, IHHT may be able to provide help and relief for those suffering.
Inflammation is a condition in its own right, but it’s also a symptom and a risk factor for much more serious diseases and ailments, like metabolic syndrome (MS), insulin resistance, atherosclerosis, renal disease, cancer, and more.
Varying research–which we dive deeper into in our comprehensive eBook–suggests an observation of decreased inflammatory markers in IHHT groups to support the notion of the efficacy of this therapy in reducing systemic inflammation.
Weight Loss & IHHT
There are many studies out there that provide the conclusion that IHHT can cause a substantial decrease in body weight–specifically due to fat reduction.
Further, it can improve–and, in many cases, prevent–metabolic symptom issues that a majority of the population suffers from. The use of hypoxic-hyperoxic training was evidenced to show not just a reduction in body weight due to fat mass reduction but also a decrease in blood lipids along with lower blood pressure and improved hypoxia and exercise tolerance.
Our in-depth eBook explores the studies that provide these proven connections in greater detail.
Neuropathy Symptom Reduction & IHHT
It’s reported that over 20 million people in the United States have some form of peripheral neuropathy, and the symptoms that persist because of this condition are on a sliding scale. Because of this, neuropathy often goes undiagnosed while suffering its effects.
IHHT has been proven to show a positive impact on alleviating neuropathy-caused symptoms because oxygen, an endogenous molecule, is the main component required for a tissue to function properly.
Further, additional research explains that specific therapeutics that alleviate endoneurial hypoxia can have a large therapeutic window for this very reason.
Explore More About IHHT & How it Can Change Your Practice
For doctors of chiropractic, physical therapists, and health care practitioners, seeking a new way to dualistically help their patients heal more efficiently, all while bringing in ROI and leveling up your practice, our patented IHHT system and information in our Breathe New Life Into Your Practice eBook is the first step to get you there.
At Ergo-Flex Technologies, we’re strong proponents of IHHT therapy. Our mindfully engineered Total Brain & Body O2 (TBBO2) system harnesses the ability to give your current patients seamless healing through this innovative technology.
Our TBBO2 system offers your practice state-of-the-art technology that provides real, actionable results for your patients–and that’s certain to draw new patients into your office while expanding treatments for your current ones.
Download our eBook to explore the details of our patented system, and embrace a proven, innovative way to provide seamless healing for your patients and level up your practice.
