WGNO ABC New Orleans Get The 411 on Dr Harch and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Here is a brief interview with LSUHSC Clinical Associate Professor Dr. Paul Harch hosted on WGNO ABC26 in New Orleans by Jocelyn Lockwood.  Together they discuss some of the results of the recently released preliminary Study of Low-Pressure Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Blast-Induced Post-Concussion Syndrome and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder published in the JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA.

Some of the Key HBOT topics discussed in this interview include:

• What is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
• The use of HBOT treatment for chronic traumatic brain injury
• How hyperbaric oxygen works to heal wounds in the body
• What conditions can be treated with HBOT
• Why you should consider a consultation with Dr. Harch in New Orleans
• How did Dr. Harch get started using Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
• What is the Next Step for HBOT and why don’t more hospitals use it

View this short video and see how Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is being used to treat many neurological diseases and giving people back their lives.

LSUHSC hitches onto Obama’s vet program

January 27, 2012
Lea Ciskowski
Contributing Writer for The Daily Reveille
 

First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Jill Biden’s “Joining Forces” initiative to support and medically treat the nation’s veterans is spanning medical schools nationwide, and while LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans is among them, the initiative has been in place there for four years, thanks to Paul Harch.

The initiative, announced Jan. 11, combatted post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries, or TBI, in veterans. 

Harch, clinical associate professor and director of LSUHSC New Orleans’ Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Care Department, has been treating veterans suffering from PTSD and TBI with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or HBOT, since 2008.

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?

Dr. Paul Harch Hyperbarics Inc. HBOT Treatments
for Neurological Disorders

Marrero,LA

The Family Physicians' Center remains the primary HBOT practice site of Dr. Harch. This facility is equipped with 4 Sechrist monoplace hyperbaric oxygen chambers and TCOM (transcutaneous oxygen monitors). Both off-label and typically reimbursed indications are treated. This hyperbaric oxygen therapy clinic is one half mile from West Jefferson Medical Center with its multiplace hyperbaric department and the high resolution SPECT brain scanner that Dr. Harch uses for Scan-Dive-Scan procedures. Phone interviews, appointments, and New Orleans consultations can be scheduled by calling the office at: 504.309.4948