FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
General Questions
Where is Oceanbeach Oxygen Clinic located?
288 Oceanbeach Road, Mount Maunganui, 3116.
How can I book HOCATT Sauna & PEMF?
Booking your appointment with us is quick and easy! We use Appointo, a Shopify booking app, to manage our schedules and ensure you get a confirmation for your chosen session.
- Select Your Treatment: Navigate to the services page on our website and choose your desired treatment.
- Schedule Your Time: Click the "Schedule your time" button. A calendar will appear, allowing you to choose your preferred date and time from the available slots.
- Confirm Your Details: Fill in your contact information, including your phone number for communication purposes and proceed through the checkout process to secure your booking.
After booking, you will receive two confirmation emails: a standard Shopify order confirmation and a separate appointment confirmation from Appointo. These emails will include all the details of your session.
Rescheduling and Cancellations
For the time being, you are not able to reschedule or cancel appointments directly from your end. This feature is coming soon!
In the meantime, if you need to make any changes to your booking, please email us directly at angela@oceanbeachoxygen.co.nz. This will allow us to assist you personally and make sure your appointment is adjusted correctly. Please refer to our Refunds and Cancellations Policy for important information regarding fees for changes made with less than 48 hours notice.
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 on our Contact page.
Can I view your clinic before booking a session?
Yes, you can! We welcome you to book a free 15-minute consultation with Angela. This is a great opportunity to view the space, ensure you feel comfortable and have all of your questions answered before your first session.
Why is the immune system so important?
When 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, such as 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 is 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 will feel better, look better, perform better, and you will 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 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 HOCATT™ Sauna?
The HOCATT is an oxygen-ozone sauna technology that helps to detoxify the body, assist with weight management, lifestyle management and bring balance to you and your immune system and when needed stimulates the immune system
Providing advanced detox and oxygenation, beauty and anti-ageing benefits, athletic improvement and an overall improvement of wellness and vitality. The medical-grade oxygen helps with repair, vitality, and energy. The Ozone acts as an anti-inflammatory for the body cleansing and disinfecting via the lymphatic system. Whilst inhaling the medical-grade oxygen. Along with several more modalities of aromatics, LED light technology, optional carbonic acid and frequency-specific Microcurrent technology.
All of this combines to provide you with energy, vitality, anti-ageing, destressing and pain management, super detoxification, and a general overall sense of well-being.
How the HOCATT Sauna Works
Your HOCATT session is a journey to enhanced well-being, designed to be both relaxing and deeply therapeutic.
- Initial Warming Phase: The session begins by raising your core body temperature using a combination of steam and far infrared rays. This gentle heat boosts your immune system and prepares your body by enhancing the activity of hormones, enzymes, and neurotransmitters. The far infrared rays penetrate deeply, relieving joint and muscle aches while promoting the chelation of heavy metals. Essential oils can be infused into the steam to further enhance your experience, creating a soothing and aromatic atmosphere.
- Carbonic Acid Therapy (Optional): For those who prefer a gentler start or cannot tolerate high heat, we offer carbonic acid therapy. A precise flow of carbon dioxide converts into carbonic acid, which sedates the central nervous system to relieve tension and stress. This process also dilates blood vessels, increasing blood circulation by up to 25% and naturally boosting the delivery of oxygen to your cells.
- Medical Ozone Therapy: This is the centrepiece of the HOCATT treatment. Following the initial warming and circulation boost, medical-grade ozone gas is infused into the sauna. The heat and carbonic acid have prepared your skin for optimal absorption, allowing the ozone to enter your bloodstream. Ozone therapy is a powerful immune system stimulant, helping to inactivate viruses, bacteria, and fungi. It also promotes healing, reduces pain and inflammation, and purifies your blood and lymph systems. As the ozone breaks down, it liberates ultraviolet rays, which play a crucial role in destroying pathogens on the skin and promoting Vitamin D production. You can also opt for targeted ozone delivery to specific areas using vaginal insufflation or specialised cups.
- Frequency-Specific Microcurrents: Our HOCATT Platinum Sauna is equipped with over 120 different programmes and 1,100 frequencies. This allows us to tailor the therapy to your specific needs. Using foot electrode pads, we can deliver Frequency Specific Microcurrents that stimulate muscles, nerves, and cells, promoting tissue regeneration, relieving pain, and destroying pathogens. This targeted electrotherapy complements all other modalities for a truly personalised treatment.
- Additional Therapeutic Modalities: Throughout your session, you'll benefit from a range of other therapies. LED light therapy fills the chamber with full-spectrum light, which provides soothing, balancing, and energising benefits. The combination of steam, light, and aromatics creates an enveloping therapeutic environment.
At the end of your session, all ozone and steam are safely extracted into a carbon filter, ensuring a clean and fresh exit. You will emerge feeling profoundly relaxed, refreshed, and energised.
Experience the unparalleled benefits of the HOCATT ozone sauna at Oceanbeach Oxygen—your destination for advanced detox, pain management, and total body wellness.
Benefits of HOCATT™ Sauna
- Reduction of muscle pain and contraction
- Inactivates Viruses, Bacteria, Yeast, Fungi, Parasites
- Assists Natural Healing
- Removes Toxins & Free Radicals
- Cleans Arteries and Veins
- Improves circulation
- Increase energy levels
- Improves sleep
- Burn up to 800 calories per session
- Increased energy levels
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.
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™?
A contraindication is a specific situation in which a medical procedure, such as a HOCATT™ session, should not be used because it may be harmful to the person. For this reason, it's very important to check with your general practitioner (GP) if any of the conditions listed below apply to you.
HOCATT™ Contraindications
We recommend consulting with your GP or personal medical professional before using the HOCATT™ if you have any of the following conditions:
Transdermal Ozone
- Thyrotoxicosis: An overactive thyroid.
- G6PD deficiency: A genetic condition that affects red blood cells.
- Porphyria: A group of disorders that result from a build-up of chemicals called porphyrins.
- Vitiligo: A condition in which the skin loses its pigment cells.
- 1st trimester of pregnancy: The first three months of pregnancy.
CO₂ / Carbonic Acid
- Hypotension: Low blood pressure.
Heat / Sauna
- Fever: An abnormally high body temperature.
- Menstruation: The monthly period of blood flow in women.
- Active bleeding: Any current or ongoing bleeding.
- Taking high blood pressure medication.
- Recent heart attack.
- 1st trimester of pregnancy.
- Hypotension: Low blood pressure (the temperature should be kept below 38°C).
- Elevated blood alcohol/drug levels.