Osteomyelitis is an acute or chronic inflammatory process of the bone and its structures secondary to infection with pyogenic (pus-producing) organisms. The infection associated with osteomyelitis may be localized or it may spread.

Chronic bone infections that resist treatment are costly, and also extremely painful. With a comprehensive program of cleansing, removal of damaged tissues, antibiotics and bone and muscle grafting hyperbaric oxygen therapy can resolve the infection while speeding the healing process.

Oxygen is essential to proper healing of bodily tissues, whether it's skin, muscle or bone. Hyperbaric oxygen is 100% pure oxygen that is literally forced into your tissues as you breathe it while inside a pressurized oxygen-filled chamber.

A phenomenal adjunct to hyperbaric oxygen therapy is pulsed electromagnetic therapy. PEMT as it is called, delivers amazing results in the healing and growth of bone. This therapy involves intermittent bursts of safe magnetic waves that have the unique property of causing the development of electric currents in the damaged tissues, stimulating the bones to increase their metabolism and regrow while decreasing the swelling and inflammation. Pulsed electromagnetic therapy is the ideal adjunct to hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

At Dr. Steenblock's Clinic when hyperbaric oxygen therapy is utilized we see healing where traditional methods alone have failed. Add pulsed electromagnetic therapy and healing can occur even more rapidly.