Hyperbaric Therapy and Autism Ranking:

Personal Accounts

This section provides details of personal accounts of the use of hyperbaric therapy for autistic people.

Personal accounts can be useful sources of information about the intervention but are not as scientifically valid or reliable as research trials. This may be especially true where the accounts are published by an organisation which might gain a financial advantage from the take-up of the intervention.

Please note that the views expressed in these personal accounts do not necessarily represent our views.

Carol Hendrisk, reporting on her patient Ani in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Volume 15, Number 3, Fall 2010.

"Many other improvements were observed. She speaks more clearly and can be understood by outsiders. She can ‘dance’ now; before she was too rigid and mechanical. She sees more detail at a distance. She has made great strides in self-help. She now attempts all selfcare instead of waiting for her mother to take care of her. She just started brushing her own hair. She manages her own period, and she takes care of her clothing."

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