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Airing out the healing process…after suffering a harrowing injury which threatened both his life and limb, Lt. Lyman Woollens, family medicine physician assigned to Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Urgent Care Clinic, has started to receive extensive rehabilitation treatment under the guidance of Navy divers and Navy Medicine undersea medicine using the Navy’s oldest certified dive chamber on Naval Undersea Warfare Center, affectionally known as ‘The Whale,’ for hyperbaric oxygen therapy to improve his recuperation process. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy – a specialty of Navy undersea medicine – can help with treatment for a host of ailments, illnesses and medical conditions. Research has shown that it is a well-established treatment for fighting infections and wounds that haven’t been able to heal from severe injuries (Official Navy photo by Douglas H Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs officer).