How hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT) helped osteopath’s mother fight cancer, and how it can aid long Covid and dementia patients – and slow ageing

‘We wanted to create an environment in which her body was stronger, going into the operation,’ osteopath says of her cancer-stricken mother’s HBOT treatment

Studies point to the benefits of HBOT in treating autism, strokes, chronic pain, Alzheimer’s, dementia, brain damage, cancer and long Covid

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A client learns about hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT). Multidisciplinary healer Amberin Fur used it to help her mother before and after her colon cancer operation in 2018, and believes the pressurised oxygen treatment was instrumental in her recovery. Photo: Amberin Fur

Tara Loader Wilkinson

Published: 6:15pm, 16 Mar 2023Updated: 1:44pm, 17 Mar 2023

Corrected [1:42pm, 17 Mar, 2023]

[1:42pm, 17 Mar, 2023]
The photographs in this story were wrongly credited to Negar Sajadifar. This has been corrected to Amberin Fur.

When osteopath Amberin Fur’s mother was awaiting surgery for colon cancer in 2018, Fur set out to do everything in her power to improve the prospects of a swift recovery.

A multidisciplinary healer who believes in a holistic approach to well-being, Fur turned to hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT).

HBOT is the supply of pure oxygen under pressure in a chamber. Breathing close to 100 per cent oxygen increases oxygen supply to the blood and tissues; since wounds need oxygen to regenerate tissue, studies show that time spent in the chamber can speed wound healing.

Fur’s mother had 10 60-minute sessions of HBOT before the surgery, and about 10 more after it.

Osteopath Amberin Fur gave her mother hyperbaric oxygen therapy before and after her cancer operation. Photo: Amberin Fur

“We wanted to create an environment in which her body was stronger, going into the operation,” Fur says.