Real sources. Go and check everything.

A short, curated list of authoritative places to verify what's on this site and read further — the professional bodies, the regulator, the journals that actually published these trials, and the databases where the whole literature lives.

Professional bodies & regulators

Who defines the standards

U

Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS)

uhms.org — the international professional society; accepted indications, safety standards, physician training.

F

U.S. Food & Drug Administration — HBOT facts

fda.gov — the regulator's guidance on cleared indications, and cautions about unproven uses.

The journals

Where these trials were published

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PLoS ONE

Published Boussi-Gross 2013 — the randomised crossover trial in chronic post-concussion syndrome.

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Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio)

Published Weaver 2025 — the double-blind, sham-controlled trial.

M

Medical Gas Research

Published Harch 2020 and Harch 2017 — the FDA-IND crossover trial and the veterans SPECT study.

B

BMJ Open

Published Hadanny 2018 — the 154-patient chronic-TBI cohort with metabolic imaging.

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Frontiers in Neurology

Published Bin-Alamer 2024 — the neuroplasticity mechanism review.

Bi

Biomolecules (MDPI)

Published Gottfried, Schottlender & Ashery 2021 — the HBOT-mechanisms review.

Search & evidence databases

The whole literature, not just our nine

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PubMed

The U.S. National Library of Medicine index — search HBOT and brain injury directly.

C

Cochrane Library

Independent systematic reviews — the field's most conservative reading of the evidence.

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ClinicalTrials.gov

Registered and ongoing HBOT trials in brain injury — including anything currently recruiting.

Context · oxygen-starvation injury

Drowning & hypoxic-ischaemic injury

Drowning is one of the injuries that starves a brain of oxygen — the same downstream damage HBOT is designed to act on. These sources give the public-health context.

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Royal Life Saving Australia

National drowning research and prevention — the scale of the injury HBOT addresses downstream.

W

World Health Organization — Drowning

The global fact sheet on drowning as a leading cause of injury and hypoxic brain harm.

A word of care. These links point to independent bodies and journals — they don't endorse this site, and some describe HBOT's brain uses as still under study. That's the honest picture, and exactly why we point you to them: read the primary sources and decide for yourself.

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