Hyperbaric and Aquatic Medicine On Travel

For the next 2 weeks we will be away attending the annual meeting of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS). The post Exercise and Medicine Underwater and at High Pressure tells about the UHMS, the fun people, and the meeting. My friends and colleagues who attend are scientists and flight surgeons, SEAL team captains and commercial divers, submarine and aircraft personnel from navies of many countries. As we like to say, the rest have paying jobs.

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I will be posting as always, even on the road. Posts to come while I am away will cover swimming and other topics. Here are posts that cover some of the subjects we study at the meeting:

• Does Hyperbaric Treatment Help Muscle Injuries?
• Does Hyperbaric Treatment Heal Sprains?
• Does Hyperbaric Oxygen Help Exercise Ability?
• Exercise and Fitness in Decompression Sickness Risk
• Hyperbarics for Diabetic Foot Injury
• Respiratory Muscle Training for Swimming, Diving, and Running
• Collapsing Astronaut Gives Healthy Reminder
  
• Altitude Sickness on Flights
• Altitude Sickness, Viagra, and Bubbles on Flights

I am a career researcher in human performance in extremes of environment. That means extremes of heat, cold, altitude, exercise, injury, submersion, crimes (forensics) breathing different gases at different pressures (hyperbarics, see above), different g-forces, sometimes all at once. Many years of my work was spent on immersion physiology. If you are interested in scuba, diving medicine, clinical hyperbarics, wound healing in a hyperbaric environment, check my books page and scroll down toward the bottom for three books on these topics.