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Harch Hyperbarics and
The Family Physicians' Center
Approximately 90% of our patients fly in from out of town.
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(504) 304-5877
ALL PATIENTS SEEKING Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) BEWARE!

With increasing regularity hyperbaric facilities, their staff, and physicians have been marketing and announcing their services with statements to patients claiming training by Dr. Harch, consulting services with Dr. Harch, use of "Harch Protocols" only, business and collaborative relationships with Dr. Harch, etc. All of these claims are FRAUDULENT. All contractual relationships with Dr. Harch will be listed here on HBOT.COM website only and/or links provided to the contractors from our website.
The New Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy HBOT has been traditionally used in the United States for a narrow list of 13 typically reimbursed indications. However, in Russia, China, the Far East, the U.K., and Europe HBOT has been applied to a variety of neurological and non-neurological diagnoses since the 1970s. In the United States Dr. Harch has been applying HBOT to the typically reimbursed indications since 1986 and a wide range of neurological and other off-label conditions since 1989. In addition, he has performed research on HBOT in 50 or more neurological conditions.
Curt Allen, Jr. was a 17 year old man who was involved in a high speed motor vehicle accident in June, 2004, in which he sustained severe traumatic brain injury. Curt was in a coma at the scene of the accident. He was admitted to an acute care hospital, underwent brain surgery to relieve pressure and placed in the ICU in critical condition. After one month he was transferred to a highly regarded post-acute brain injury rehabilitation center in Southeast Louisiana where he remained for 3 months. During these three months he made such minimal progress that he was discharged as a failure of standard intensive traumatic brain injury therapy. The day before discharge from this center his mother attended a local church where she asked the priest to request that the congregation pray for her son’s recovery. After the priest fulfilled this request during Mass Mrs.
Will the White House Finally Bring HBOT to Wounded Vets?
January 17, 2012
The Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA)
A former ANH-USA board member joined with Michelle Obama to announce an exciting new program to help veterans with traumatic brain injuries. A new Action Alert!
Health pioneer Dr. Paul G. Harch, associate clinical professor of medicine at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, will participate in the White House’s Joining Forces Initiative. The program will teach medical schools better ways to train new doctors to care for veterans’ needs, including hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment (HBOT), the premier therapy for brain injuries and PTSD.
New Study Reaffirms: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Should Be Standard Treatment for Veterans
December 6, 2011
The Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA)
HBOT So why does the government keep blocking its use?
Research from health pioneer (and former ANH-USA board member) Dr. Paul G. Harch published in the Journal of Neurotrauma indicates that hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or HBOT, is able to dramatically help veterans with post-concussion syndrome (a form of traumatic brain injury) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Dr. Harch is an associate clinical professor of medicine at Louisiana State University in New Orleans.
LSUHSC Joins Forces With White House to Combat TBI/PTSD in Veterans
As part of First Lady Michelle Obama's Joining Forces initiative, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) committed to creating a new generation of doctors, medical schools, and research facilities that will make sure our heroes receive the care worthy of their service. Recognizing veterans and their families' sacrifice and commitment, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans pledged to mobilize its uniquely integrated missions in education, research, and clinical care to train the nation's physicians to meet veterans and their families' unique health care needs, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
METAIRIE, LOUISIANA
THE OFFICE OF
WILLIAM M. DETWEILER
PAST NATIONAL COMMANDER
September 30, 2011
The enclosed September and October issues of The American Legion Magazine contain a series of two articles growing out of the investigation and findings of the TBI/PTS Ad Hoc Committee. I serve as the Chairman of the Committee. The Committee was appointed for one year, but will be re-appointed by our newly elected National Commander next week at our National Executive Meetings in Indianapolis.
This was to be a two part series. However, the November issue will contain an article based on a study that has been ongoing for decades on the psychological effect of combat experience.
The American Legion is deeply committed to seeing that our veterans who are suffering from these injuries receive the care they deserve. As such, we have called for meetings of the House Veterans Affairs Committee and the Committee Chairman, Congressman Jeff Miller, Florida, has instructed his staff to work with us in preparation for the meetings.
Stay tuned.
Iraq War Veteran Rusty Ouart to Receive His Long Awaited,
Well Deserved, Purple Heart
Iraq War Veteran Rusty Ouart will finally get his Purple Heart. The North Dakota Congressional Delegation announced Friday, Dec. 1, that Ouart, who suffered a Concussive traumatic brain injury and shrapnel wounds from a mortar attack, will receive the medal.
Ouart is a former law enforcement officer in Frazee. He is also a 1982 Frazee High School graduate, where he participated in football and wrestling.
Ouart enlisted in the United States Navy and after recruit training in San Diego; he completed Navy school and graduated in the top 1 percent of his class at Naval Aviation Air Crew Candidate School, (NACCS) Pensacola, Fla. He was then automatically transferred to the Navy’s top Search and Rescue School located in Pensacola.
Hyperbaric Oxygen: Giving People Back Their Lives
Hyperbaric oxygen is the cleanest medicine in the world and makes perfect sense. HBOT, or hyperbaric oxygen treatment, has a proven track record of success, has been around for decades, and is natural but versatile. It can be used on anything from chronic non-healing wounds to traumatic brain injuries—along with conditions such as cerebral palsy, autism, stroke, MS and Alzheimer’s.
So, why don’t people seem to know about it? Why is this extraordinarily effective treatment all but invisible in the public square? And why don’t more conventional medicine physicians refer patients who might benefit for treatment?







