1. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for TBI
Eleanor P. Womack, MD
Medical Director

2. Our Team
Eleanor Piel Womack, MD is the Medical Director of Westlake Medical Arts, Board Certified in both Internal and Anti-Aging & Regenerative Medicine.  Former Staff Oncologist at City of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte, California.  Functional Medicine practitioner for the last eight years.  Also Medical Director for ATX Hyperbarics, Austin’s only standalone middle pressure Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Clinic.  Harvard College and Harvard Medical School graduate. Mother of nine children including a set of triplets and a set of twins.
Our Financial Operations are managed by Clay H. Womack, a senior executive with over 30 years of investment banking and asset management experience .

3. Our Facility
Austin’s only standalone mid pressure hyperbaric clinic treating “off label” by prescription, 3 hard side chambers in current facility, treating from 1.3 ATA to 2.0 ATA
Opened – treated 270+ patients to date
No negative outcomes to date
Multiple practitioners in Central Texas referring patients for autism, mold toxicity, stroke recovery, concussion, plastic surgery wound healing acceleration, etc.
Open 7:00 am to 8:30 pm Monday thru Saturday

4. Introduction to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Oxygen is the human body’s primary fuel accelerant.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (“HBOT”) is the medical use of oxygen in a pressurized environment, at a level higher than 1 atmosphere absolute (ATA).
Increased pressure allows oxygen to dissolve and saturate more effectively in the the blood plasma where it can be carried to the tissues independent of hemoglobin and red blood cells. This increased access to oxygen yields a broad variety of positive physiological, biochemical and cellular effects.
This non-invasive therapy is the most trusted way to increase oxygen levels to all organs of the body. Basic Gas Physics. Gas under pressure goes into solution.
The typical treatment lasts for minutes and one session increases the oxygenation of the blood system by 50%.

5. How HBOT Works
Mechanism for Healing:

6. Why HBOT is Effective
Oxygen molecules carried by red blood cells can only get 51 microns into the tissue
HBO can put Oxygen 273 microns into tissue (over 5 times deeper) that would otherwise not get perfused

8. Neurons require high energy to function as Neurons
Hard to get even more oxygen for repair…

9. Why Use HBOT?
HBOT is the only proven proactive mechanism to regenerate new brain tissue
After 20 hours, patient may have up to 800% more circulating stem cells to help with healing
Safe & Effective
Financially Prudent. Every bit of patient improvement decreases long term costs logarithmically

10. Insurance Reimburseable Conditions
HBOT is used “on-label” for:
Necrotizing soft tissue infections
Osteomyelitis
Air or Gas Embolism
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Delayed Radiation Injury
Compromised Skin Grafts and Flaps
Gas Gangrene
Thermal Burn Injury
Crush Injury
Decompression Sickness
Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Arterial Insufficiencies
Severe Anemia
Intracranial Abscess
You will notice that only two of these are directly related to the brain and its status, why is that? Original 12 conditions were grandfathered in when FDA began regulating HBOT. There were no studies to support almost half the indications, they were just included because they had been being treated by hospitals and physicians. Only two additional indications have been added in recent history, Thermal burns and Idiopathic sudden hearing loss.

11. Standard of Care in many other countries
HBOT is used “off-label” in USA for:
Inflammation Reduction
Cancer Treatment Enhancement
Concussion Recovery, PTSD, TBI
Diabetes Control
Enhance Stem Cell Activity
Athletic performance enhancement
Neurological Function Enhancement
Cosmetic surgery recovery enhancement
Cerebral Palsy
IV therapy efficacy enhancement
Autism
Stroke Prevention & Recovery
For instance, HBOT for Concussion recovery, PTSD & TBI are considered standard of care in Israel, Russian, Japan and China. Just because it is called “off-label” does not mean that it has not been proven to work. There are mountains of research that prove HBOT is effective in treating most, if not all, of the listed “off-label” conditions…

12. Our Patient Population
270+ Patients served in last 24 months, no negative outcomes
Autism 2%
MS 1%
Brain/Neuro 16%
Neuropathy 4%
Cancer 5%
Surgery/Injury 20%
Fatigue 7%
Wellness 24%
Gastrointestinal 9%
Lymes Disease 6%
Mold 8%

13. Our Commitment to Excellence
ATXHyperbarics has membership in both the International Hyperbaric Medicine Association and the International Hyperbarics Association which function as education, trade and referral groups for HBOT clinics around the world in order to keep our staff on the front end of treatment technology
We utilize the latest research to keep our treatment protocols up to date with the latest in science

14. In Summary
ATXHyperbarics can and has treated several types of neurological conditions: TBI, Concussion, Stroke and PTSD which have all been shown to improve with HBOT
Outcomes are not uniform because the amount of healing depends on the injury the time elapsed since injury and the underlying health of the individual
Oxygen + Time + Pressure = Healing

15. Thank you! For more information, please contact: Clay H. Womack
Cell –