Athletic Injury

• Due to the increase in sports related injuries, it is important to find ways to help reduce the healing time and get athletes back into season.

• HBO is remarkably free of untoward side effects. Complications such as oxygen toxicity, middle ear barotrauma and confinement anxiety are well controlled with appropriate pre-exposure orientations. 

• HBO has the effect of diminishing tissue damage, which improves microcirculation.

• The healing of a sports injury has its natural recovery and follows a fairly constant pattern irrespective of the underlying cause. The three phases are: the inflammatory phase, the proliferative phase and the remodeling phase. Oxygen has an important role in each of these phases.

• Olympic athletes used HBOT and benefitted from faster healing time. 

• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has become increasingly popular among elite athletes and most recently among the general public as a modality to improve fatigue, enhance overall health and well-being, heal sports-related injuries, and promote anti-aging. 

• This study tested 15 young healthy volunteers to see their improvement with the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. 

• The testing found that mild-pressure hyperbaric therapy reduces oxidative stress as indicated by a significant decrease in serum ROM, and also helps improve fatigue as seen by a significant decrease in VAS fatigue scores. 

Sports and Hyperbarics

• This short flyer explains how HBOT reduces inflammation for sports injuries, concussions, and surgeries.

• It lists bullet points of improvements that occur.

• The article also includes a short testimonial about an NFL player using HBOT