Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Aids Recovery in Rare Spinal Infection Case
Researchers at Shimane University in Japan successfully treated a complex spinal epidural abscess case using hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an adjunctive treatment. The case, published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine in October 2025, involved a 70-year-old man whose condition failed to improve with standard surgical and antibiotic interventions alone. Dr. Yoshiaki Iwashita and colleagues from the Department of…