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I’m about 8 months out from a concussion and still dealing with brain fog and chronic dizziness. It’s been affecting work and normal daily life. My neurologist casually mentioned looking into hyperbaric oxygen therapy, HBOT, as something some people try for recovery support.

The confusing part is that every clinic seems to describe it differently. Some talk about “oxygen sessions,” some use soft chambers, others mention hard chambers, and a lot of websites don’t clearly list ATA pressure, oxygen %, or session length.

For people who tried HBOT after concussion/TBI, did the pressure level matter in your experience? Were you in a soft chamber or hard chamber? How many sessions did you do before deciding whether it was helping?

Also, how did you screen clinics before booking? I’m trying to avoid choosing a place based only on wellness-style marketing if the chamber type and protocol actually matter.

I’m at that point where I’m so tired of hearing “have you tried stretching?” that I started looking harder at shockwave.

At first I thought it would be simple. You find a place, they do shockwave, you see if it helps. Done.

But then I started reading more and now I’m more confused than when I started. Some people say focused matters. Some say radial is fine. Some talk about pulse count, some talk about how many sessions you need before calling it a failure, and most clinic websites somehow manage to say almost nothing useful.

That’s the part driving me nuts. If this stuff can vary that much, why do so many places present it like it’s one standard treatment?

For anyone here who actually went through with it, what separated the clinics that seemed legit from the ones that just looked polished online?

I recently started looking into neurofeedback and expected provider research to be pretty straightforward, but it hasn’t been.

A lot of places explain the idea in broad terms, but when you actually try to compare them, it gets messy fast. Some talk about qEEG, some don’t. Some explain how they choose protocols, some barely explain anything. A lot of sites say the same reassuring things without making it clear what the actual process looks like.

It’s weird because two providers can both say they do neurofeedback, but the assessment, training, setup and progress tracking could be completely different.

For people here who’ve done it, what do you look for first when deciding if a provider seems legit?