Jet Therapy is a product introduced into the South African market some five years ago and involves the application of purified air under pressure to the skin.
It is said to be effective in hastening healing of diabetic ulcers, and alleviating symptoms with diabetic feet and in patients with rest pain.
If, as anecdotal reports suggested, it hastens healing of diabetic ulcers, improves peripheral circulation and symptoms in diabetic patients, this needed to be confirmed clinically and the mechanism of action established.
The treatment is a form of localised intermittent positive pressure, resulting in the reduction of oedema and improvement of oxygen delivery to dermal cells,
that it induces local vasodilatation and enhancement of peripheral circulation with redistribution from shunt flow to nutritive blood flow in the skin,
that it induces a reflex heating effect with vasodilatation following the period of mild barotrauma and colluding,
and that it is a form of localised hyperbaric oxygen therapy with oxygen diffusion into the skin.
In addition, anecdotal reports obtained from many of the clinics using the Jet Therapy system in various parts of the world indicate that there is a reduction in the appearance of cellulite and body fat in the area that has been treated after a course of 10 Jet Therapy Treatments.