Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Can Diminish Fibromyalgia Syndrome – Prospective Clinical Trial

Shai Efrati; Haim Golan; Yair Bechor; Yifat Faran; Shir Daphna-Tekoah; Gal Sekler; Gregori Fishlev; Jacob N. Ablin; Jacob Bergan; Olga Volkov; Mony Friedman; Eshel Ben-Jacob; Dan Buskila

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0127012

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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Can Diminish Fibromyalgia Syndrome – Prospective Clinical Trial

Shai Efrati ,

* E-mail: efratishai@013.net (SE); eshelbj@gmail.com (EBJ)

Affiliations Research and Development Unit, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel, The Institute of Hyperbaric Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Haim Golan,

Affiliations Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Nuclear Medicine institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel
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Yair Bechor,

Affiliation The Institute of Hyperbaric Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel
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Yifat Faran,

Affiliation School of Social Work, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel
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Shir Daphna-Tekoah,

Affiliations School of Social Work, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel, Social Work Department, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel
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Gal Sekler,

Affiliation School of Physics and Astronomy, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Gregori Fishlev,

Affiliations The Institute of Hyperbaric Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Jacob N. Ablin,

Affiliations Institute of Rheumatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky medical center Israel, Tel- Aviv, Israel, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Jacob Bergan,

Affiliations The Institute of Hyperbaric Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Olga Volkov,

Affiliations Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Nuclear Medicine institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel
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Mony Friedman,

Affiliations The Institute of Hyperbaric Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Eshel Ben-Jacob ,

* E-mail: efratishai@013.net (SE); eshelbj@gmail.com (EBJ)

Affiliations Research and Development Unit, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, School of Physics and Astronomy, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Dan Buskila

Affiliation Department of Medicine H, Soroka Medical Center, BGU University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Can Diminish Fibromyalgia Syndrome – Prospective Clinical Trial

Shai Efrati,
Haim Golan,
Yair Bechor,
Yifat Faran,
Shir Daphna-Tekoah,
Gal Sekler,
Gregori Fishlev,
Jacob N. Ablin,
Jacob Bergan,
Olga Volkov

Published: May 26, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127012

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26 Apr 2022
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Excellent and helpful! Perhaps validates Oxidative Stress etiology? Posted by wnadler on 26 Apr 2022 at 11:07 GMT
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Desperate patient here Posted by ldees on 24 Sep 2017 at 20:08 GMT
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Some comments on this quite interesting paper Posted by cavm on 04 Jun 2015 at 20:44 GMT
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27 May 2015
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Thank you Dr Efrati for apprising me of this study, it certainly didn't disapppoint! Posted by FnMyalgia on 27 May 2015 at 06:12 GMT

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