Resources

Autism Speaks

This organization aims to bring the autism community together as one strong voice to urge the government and private sector to listen to its concerns and take action to address the global health crisis. They are dedicated to funding global biomedical research into the causes, prevention, treatments, and cure for autism; to raising public awareness about autism and its effects on individuals, families, and society; and to bringing hope to all who deal with the hardships of this disorder.

Eye Contact Arkansas

Focused on the state politics surrounding autism spectrum disorders, this public website provides autism news and personal stories throughout Arkansas.

LearningRx

This center provides testing and training techniques to help students overcome life-long learning struggles.

MUMS National Parent to Parent Network

An organization for parents or care providers that provides a networking system that matches them with other parents/providers whose children have the same or similar condition.

NeuroRestorative Specialty Centers

Post-acute neurorehabilitation specialized healthcare organizations dedicated exclusively to serving children, adolescents, and adults with an acquired brain injury

Walk Now for Autism

North America's largest grassroots autism walk program

Friends

Lily's Story

Lily is a precious little girl we have been treating at The HBO Clinic. She has one of the most beautiful smiles, and she loves to play "the coughing game." Her mother and grandmother are proud to tell her story here.

Tera's Triumph

This website tells the story of Tera Clark, our first patient at The HBO Clinic. Tera was in a nearly-fatal car wreck in February 2005 in which she received a traumatic brain injury, spinal fractures, a collapsed lung, a ruptured spleen, and a fractured left elbow, hip and knee. When we first saw Tera in June 2008, she had made significant progress, but her recovery had plateaued, as she was still unable to walk, and she couldn't communicate as well as she wished. After 75 HBO treatments, along with adjunctive rehabilitation, Tera is now able to walk, using a cane, and she communicates much more clearly.

Randy's Recovery

This website tracks the recovery of Randy McIntosh since the TBI he received in a car accident in July 2006. He wasn't even expected to survive the brain surgeries, but now he has regained much of his function. His mother, caregiver, and other loved ones are dedicated to his rehabilitation, and he is getting stronger all the time! We are currently treating Randy, who is now 23 years old.

Remember Lorraine

We knew her as "Old Angel Eyes." Lorraine Root was a beautiful young woman who was "t-boned" in a car wreck in September 2003. She became comatose, having suffered a severe traumatic-brain injury. Lorraine was in a coma for 20 months until she died May 11, 2005. However, Lorraine did regain consciousness for 15 days while she was receiving HBOT at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center. Sadly, Lorraine's insurance provider would no longer cover her therapy, and her HBOT was discontinued.

"I am convinced the HBO treatments Lorraine received at SVI, combined with a shunt, were what allowed her the 15 days of consciousness she regained," Lorraine's mother, Terrie, says. "Were you aware of that precious gift? She was talking, singing and answering questions."

Lorraine inspired Dr. Villines to open The HBO Clinic so that people like her would have access to a therapy that can work miracles.

Literature

Oxygen Revolution by Paul G. Harch, Virginia McCullough, William A. Duncan. Written by Dr. Harch, a great pioneer of HBOT, this book is essentially the layman's guide to HBOT and "off-label" indications.