Searching through Google today I came across some research that was not surprising to see but I was not expecting to find.  In the National Defense Medical Journal published in Japan in 1999 a research team determined that Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) was an effective for treatment of lumbar disc herniations!

Now as a chiropractic physician this did not surprise me because I know that getting nutrients to a damaged intervertebral disc is key to speeding up the healing process, and that HBOT could only increase the rate at which oxygen is pushed into the deep tissues. I see patients everyday who have disc herniations and by the use of conservative chiropractic care and the use of a Cox Decompression table I create a negative pressure on that damaged disc that enables it to pull in the nutrients from the fluid that surround it.

Now it only makes sense to me that if you are doing good with chiropractic care, that is creating that external force to heal a disc that if that was coupled with HBOT your results would only come faster. Beyond the one publish article I found many case studies in which hyperbarics was coupled with chiropractic and there was MRI confirmation of reduction of many disc hernations.