frequently asked questions
General Questions
Where are you located?
288 Oceanbeach Road, Mount Maunganui, 3116.
How can I book?
Simply select your chosen treatment then schedule your time. Choose from one of our treatments right here.
I have purchased a concession, how do I schedule my remaining appointments?
Once you have scheduled your first appointment, you will receive a confirmation email. This email contains a secure link to your 'client booking portal' where you can schedule and manage all of your appointments. Please follow the below steps:
1. Open your confirmation email from Oceanbeach Oxygen
2. Click 'Customer Portal link'
3. Once you have logged in with your private password
4. On the top left click 'Subscription Bookings'
5. Click the green button 'Manage'
6. Click 'Book Remaining Slots'
7. Schedule the appointments as you need
If you have any trouble booking, please reach out.
How can I get in touch with you?
Call Angela on 021 50 39 40 or get in touch using the form right here.
Can I view your clinic before booking a session?
Yes! We welcome you to book a free 15 minute consultation with Angela, to view the space and ensure you feel comfortable while having all of your questions answered. Book 15 min consultation here.
Why is the immune system so important?
When it's working properly, the immune system is nature's most perfect healing network — it provides the ideal platform for the recovery of any illness or disease.
Not only does the HOCATT™ detox your body, but it also modulates the immune system. It also improves blood and lymph circulation and enhances all organ function — including the production of hormones and enzymes. The HOCATT™ also reduces stress and anxiety, which is very important for immune health.
However, the immune system is not invincible! It can be weakened by things that overburden it, like heavy metals and toxins in the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the food we eat. In today's world, we are all steadily exposed to toxins, and most of us remain unaware as they continue to accumulate. Eventually, the pace of incoming toxins may overtake the pace at which your body can eliminate them. When you reach this point, your body has no choice but to store some of these toxins, which it does in your fat cells. A study done in 2005 found that blood samples from newborns contained an average of 287 known toxins — if a newborn is exposed to that many toxins, imagine how many you have been exposed to in your LIFE.
An unhealthy lifestyle like eating too much sugar, excessive alcohol consumption, smoking, lack of exercise, stress, too little sleep, and lack of oxygen also weakens the immune system. When this happens, the door is left open for disease to creep in.
This is why supporting the immune system is so important because it's not just there to fight diseases — a strong and balanced immune system will prevent you from getting sick in the first place. With a strong immune system, everything works better! But what does this mean for you? You'll FEEL better, LOOK better, PERFORM better, you'll have more energy, focus and drive.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
PEMF Treatments
What are the contraindications for PEMF?
PEMF Contraindications
- Implanted Electrical devices
- Metals that are not compatible with MRI technology
- Organ Transplants
- Pregnancy
Use with caution
- Graves’ disease
- Active Bleeding
- Epilepsy
- Breast Implants
It is recommended in the first instance you speak to your health professional or GP before undergoing any new treatments if you have any concerns, and in some cases we will not be able to offer treatments or will request you seek medical approval to begin. Please disclose any health concerns and all current medication and treatments you may be undergoing.
What is the PEMF treatment and how does it work?
What is PEMF treatment?
PEMF (which stands for Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Field) therapy uses technology to stimulate and exercise cells to help resolve cellular dysfunction and to support overall wellness. Pulsed PEMF therapy treats your cells like batteries. It’s common for them to slowly be drained of energy. By the end of a day, your body and mind may feel tired and depleted. It generates energy in your cells without an invasive procedure. This amplifies your natural energy and encourages your body to function more effectively. Also known as low field magnetic stimulation, it uses electromagnetic fields to try to help cellular dysfunction.
How does the PEMF work?
Pulsed PEMF therapy sends magnetic energy into the body. These energy waves work with your body’s natural magnetic field to improve healing. The magnetic fields help you to increase electrolytes and ions. This naturally influences electrical changes on a cellular level and influences cellular metabolism. It works with your body’s own recovery processes to help relieve chronic pain. Best of all, it’s entirely safe.
Ultimately, the human body requires electricity to sign signals throughout the body and to your brain. PEMF therapy effectively can realign the electricity in your cells. When a cell is stimulated, it allows positive charges to enter a cell in an open ion channel. The inside of this cell becomes positively charged, which will trigger other electrical currents, turning into pulses. This can positively influence movement, healing, and sending of signals. Any disruption in electrical currents can lead to dysfunction or illness. Pulsed PEMF therapy helps restore this disruption in electrical current to the normal state, which promotes overall wellness.
What do I need to prepare or bring to my session?
- If you are having PEMF, you will be able to have the session fully clothed on the PEMF mat or using the rings.
- There are a small number of contradictions to Sauna Therapy and PEMF, you will be asked about your Health and current medication before your first treatment to make sure we are matching the right treatment for your needs.
frequently asked questions
HOCATT™ Oxygen Ozone Sauna
What is the HOCATT™ oxygen ozone sauna treatment and how does it work?
At the beginning of the session the steam and far infrared rays heat up the body to raise the core body temperature, helping to boost the immune system.
All bodily processes are enhanced at higher temperatures, including the activity of hormones, enzymes, protein signalers, and neurotransmitters. This also puts the body in an optimal state of healing in which to receive the rest of the HOCATT™ modalities.
Far infrared rays penetrate deeply into the skin and subcutaneous tissue, relieving joint and muscle aches and pain while promoting the chelation of heavy metals from the body. Essential oils may be added to enhance your experience. They are infused during the session through the specialised steam jet.
Optionally, Carbonic Acid can be used in the first 3-8 mins if heat cannot be tolerated, CO2 is infused at a very specific flow rate and converts into carbonic acid as it reacts with water. The carbonic acid sedates the central nervous system to relieve tension and stress as well as dilate the blood vessels to increase blood circulation by up to 25%. Carbonic acid is one of the very few compounds that naturally and without any side effects increases the uptake and delivery of oxygen at a cellular level. As steam and / or CO2 gently fill the sauna, full spectrum light rays also fill the chamber and are absorbed by the skin as they reflect from the steam and the ultra-reflective chamber walls. Photo Light with Colour Spectrum provides the body with soothing, relaxing, balancing and energizing rays. if used, the carbon dioxide is removed and the sauna is infused with Medical Ozone gas.
This is the main therapy, and it is generated from medical grade Oxygen. The heat and the carbon dioxide serve to open up the circulation to the skin so that when the ozone gas is infused it is absorbed by the skin into the general circulation.
During the ozone stage you may elect to use a catheter for vaginal ozone insufflation, or cups (for breast, prostate, scar and wound healing) for more targeted ozone delivery.
One of the main advantages of Ozone is that it stimulates the body’s natural antioxidant system, and boosts energy down to a cellular level. It also inactivates viruses and eliminates parasitic, bacterial and yeast/fungal infections. Ozone stimulates the immune system and promotes healing. In addition, ozone oxidizes toxins so the body can excrete them.
It reduces pain and inflammation and purifies the blood and lymph systems. Also, when the ozone is broken down in the chamber, ultraviolet rays are liberated. Ultraviolet rays play an important role in destroying pathogens on the skin. The ultraviolet rays also promote the production of certain Vitamins, such as Vitamin D.In addition, Electrotherapy (Frequency Specific Micro-currents) focus on a specific health issue within a selected program to fit your needs.
Our HOCATT Platinum Sauna gives you a choice of more than 120 different programs that contain over 1100 frequencies. Each frequency having its own special and unique benefit to a certain part of the body. This means we can concentrate on any area of focus that you require. The possibilities and benefits are immense and the results are immediate.
Specific frequencies may be selected to stimulate the muscles, nervous system and cells through the foot electrode pads while undergoing all of the above therapies simultaneously or in sequence. This therapy promotes the healing and regeneration of damaged tissues, relieves pain, destroys pathogens, and energizes the body.
At the end of the session the entire volume of ozone and oxygen steam mixture are extracted into the activated carbon charcoal destructor in order to prevent release into the room when the doors open. You can expect to emerge from the treatment feeling extremely relaxed, refreshed and energized.
What do I need to prepare or bring to my session?
- Come hydrated and preferably not after a high intensity work out or heat inducing activity.
- If you are having a HOCATT™ treatment, it is a good idea to wear loose fitting clothes for when you leave.
- The Ozone treatment, as it is a steam Sauna (can be comfortably set between 37 degrees and 43 degrees) you can choose whether to enter the Sauna in swimsuit, underwear or undressed.
- You will have a private room for changing, after being shown how to enter and exit the HOCATT™, you do so in privacy.
- You can opt to be assisted when entering and exiting HOCATT™ sauna if it is needed.
- There are a small number of contradictions to Sauna Therapy and PEMF, you will be asked about your Health and current medication before your first treatment to make sure we are matching the right treatment for your needs.
Pre and post care for HOCATT™
- It is recommended to Drink of your body weight (kilograms) in ounces the night before; ie if you weigh 60 Kilos then you will need to drink approx. 60 ounces of water.
- Drink 1 glass of filtered water before therapy
- No heavy meals 1.5 hours before scheduled therapy
- No medication to be taken 4 hours before scheduled therapy
- You may start to detox after your first HOCATT™ session, or it could take a few sessions for your body to start detoxing. You should drink 8 oz of water every 2 hours throughout the day to support your system during the detox period.
- It is recommended that you do NOT shower for about 2-7 hours after the session, as there are still ozone messengers present on the skin for some time after the session
- Vitamin C is a great way to support your immune system, and it enhances the effects of the HOCATT sessions. We recommend 1000mg of Vitamin C, 3 times per day for 3 days. With a wait of at least 1-2 hours after each session.
- To aid the detoxification process it is recommended to drink at least 12-16 ounces of filtered water with a ¼ of lemon and a ¼ of lime in the morning. This is a great liver cleanser.
What to expect during HOCATT™ therapy?
During the 30 minute therapy, you will be sitting comfortably in the HOCATT™ capsule with your head exposed to the air (in order to prevent inhalation of ozone). A nasal cannula (an oxygen jet) is placed in front of your face providing pure humidified oxygen to the nose to ensure enhanced oxygen saturation in the blood. Breathing pure oxygen boosts energy and endurance, burns more calories, increases blood oxygen levels, and increases your sense of well-being!
Warm steam or C02 gas can be used safely within the chamber instead of the Sauna function, if a person cannot tolerate that. The pores open and capillaries dilate due to the warm steam, far infrared energy or CO2 gas. Ozone is introduced via the skin (transdermal), increasing the “SP02” levels (percentage saturated oxygen).
The gentle rise in the body core temperature (hyperthermia) and the increased oxygen level in the blood increase the blood circulation; the production of white blood cells and stem cells; kill bacteria, viruses, parasites and cancer cells expelling them via sweat though the skin, thereby sparing the kidneys and liver of most of the work.
Ozone Therapy has been proven to assist in the healing of most critical medical conditions*.
What is ozone?
Ozone is the production of ultraviolet (UV) and oxygen (O2). In simple words, the pale blue-coloured gas results from sunlight and the oxygen we breathe daily, where the sunlight breaks down the oxygen molecule into two separate oxygen atoms (O). Subsequently, the free oxygen atom binds with another oxygen molecule (O2) to form oxygen with three atoms, hence ozone (O3).
Is it safe?
It is indeed safe! Ozone is an age-old natural healing modality and a well-researched therapy, with numerous studies published in medical journals worldwide, including esteemed journals such as PubMed. Ozone has outstanding safety records and astonishing efficacy in virtually all categories of disease due to its anti-oxidant stimulation and energy production capabilities. It has been deemed one of the safest treatments with the fewest side effects. Ozone is only hazardous when it is directly inhaled, as it can irritate the mucous membranes of the lungs.
Who is a likely client for the HOCATT™?
Everyone! Those who want to: maintain or improve on performance; manage weight; improve appearance or slow the hands of time (anti-aging); boost the immune system so the body can fight infections and maintain a state of wellbeing; want to relieve acute and chronic pain; want to ensure faster post-operative recovery; have been told there is no other solution. The HOCATT™ is so versatile that almost everyone can benefit from the HOCATT™.
How long are the HOCATT™ sessions? How many do I need?
HOCATT™ sessions are usually 25-30 minutes. Most protocols recommend 2-3 sessions per week, but some cases do require daily sessions initially. A couple of sessions per month are recommended for even the healthiest clients looking to maintain and increase their vitality.
Will HOCATT™ interfere with my current medication(s)?
In most cases the HOCATT™ is very complementary to conventional medications, often enhancing their efficacy. HOCATT™ also promotes the absorption and bio-availability of nutrients when taking vitamin/mineral supplements. We have even seen many cases where chemotherapy patients using the HOCATT™ not only experience reduced side effects, but also an enhanced efficacy of the chemo. Please consult your doctor about your concerns before starting HOCATT™ sessions.
Is HOCATT™ safe for pregnant and/or breastfeeding women?
HOCATT™, and especially the VI application, is actually recommended for those who are planning or trying to fall pregnant, and it is safe for breastfeeding women. However, as with most anything, it is advised that you not use the HOCATT™ during the first 3 months of pregnancy, as it is during this time that the fetus is most vulnerable.
Do I have to use all of the HOCATT™ technologies?
You do not have to do all of the technologies if you do not wish
to. You can select which technologies you want before the
session starts, and during the session you may also ask for any
of the options to be switched off or on.
What if I get too hot?
If at any point during the session you get too hot, the temperature can be lowered, or the session can be stopped. All features of the HOCATT™ can be increased or decreased to suit your level of comfort
What are the contraindications for HOCATT™?
HOCATT™ Contraindications
Transdermal Ozone:
- Thyrotoxicosis
- G6PD deficiency
- Porphyria
- Vitiligo
- 1st trimester of pregnancy
CO2 / Carbonic Acid:
- Hypotension
Heat / Sauna:
- Fever
- Menstruation
- Active bleeding
- Taking high blood pressure medication
- Recent heart attack
- 1st trimester of pregnancy
- Hypotension (keep temp. < 38°C)
- Elevated blood alcohol/drug levels