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With the festive season in full swing, you might be thinking about choosing meaningful gifts for loved ones. For people recovering from surgery or injury, managing a chronic health condition, or looking to improve their skin health, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) could offer a restorative boost. This year, the gift of wellness could be one of the most thoughtful presents of all.

On December 3, OxyGeneration will be marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This is a time to recognise resilience, raise awareness, and improve access to care. For many people living with mobility challenges or using wheelchairs, crutches, or prosthetics, pressure sores and chronic wounds are a daily risk that can have a huge impact on comfort and independence.

As we mark International Men’s Day on November 19, it’s a good moment to highlight an area of men’s health that’s less often discussed: recovery after surgery, injury or cancer treatment.

Chronic foot ulcers are a serious complication of diabetes. These wounds can be very slow to heal, and treatment can be prolonged and frustrating. In some cases, when little or no progress is being made with treatment, an amputation may be recommended.

If you’re healing from surgery, you’ll know that recovery takes time, rest and care.

Radiation therapy plays a vital role in cancer treatment – but for some, the effects don’t stop when treatment ends. Long after the cancer has been treated, patients can be left managing difficult side effects: pain, swelling, poor healing, or tissue damage that’s not improving.

When you have type 1 diabetes, you become an expert at understanding your blood sugars, insulin doses, and any complications that you might be at risk of. Because diabetes can affect blood flow and the body’s ability to fight infections, even small injuries can turn into long-lasting wounds that are slow to heal.

Burn injuries can be life-changing, painful, slow to heal, and prone to infection or other complications. The treatment of burns can be complicated, and they often require specialist care.