What Researchers Did
Chinese researchers ran a multicenter randomised trial with 158 moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury patients, testing four combinations of rehabilitation intensity and HBOT over 3 months.
What They Found
All four groups improved in cognitive, daily living, and motor function scores. The group receiving twice-daily intensive rehabilitation combined with HBOT showed significantly greater improvement at 1, 2, and 3 months (p less than 0.01). Standard once-daily rehab with HBOT also outperformed rehab without HBOT.
Canadian Relevance
No direct Canadian connection identified.
Study Limitations
The open-label multicenter design makes blinding difficult, and the study population was drawn entirely from Chinese hospitals, limiting direct applicability to Canadian TBI demographics.