Hyperbaric medicine and its treatments achieve high concentrations of oxygen in the blood, which can favor the treatment of a large number of pathologies. It is a therapy that uses oxygen to heal wounds and significantly improve sports injuries.
The air we breathe has 21% oxygen, but in a hyperbaric chamber you breathe 100%. With this therapy inside the hyperbaric chamber, pure oxygen is used at higher pressure than normal with the aim of treating very diverse medical conditions, from wounds, infections and sports injuries to helping to improve the toxicity of treatments such as radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be used as a safe alternative, and with a positive impact on the athlete’s treatment, recovery and training.
How beneficial is O2 for athletes?
Oxygen plays an important role in exercise physiology. When an athlete breathes 100% pure oxygen inside a hyperbaric chamber, the oxygen dissolved in the blood is increased more than 20 times, allowing the oxygen necessary for better sports performance to be available and significantly improving the resolution of injuries caused when doing sports.
Benefits of the Hyperbaric Chamber for rapid recovery from sports injuries
The immune system is strengthened, the mind is oxygenated, concentration increases and the athlete recovers faster after any tendon, muscle, bone or ligament injury.
It is very useful as a complementary treatment for the athlete’s recovery.
Hyperbaric chamber treatment can be applied to most injuries that can range from muscle cramps, partial or complete ruptures, and delayed-onset post-exertional muscle soreness. In addition to injuries to the medial collateral ligament and anterior cruciate ligament, in terms of pain control, decreased edema and functional improvement and range of motion.
The 3 main advantages of hyperbaric treatment in athletes are that it increases muscle energy, accelerates recovery from fatigue caused by playing sports and in general a great improvement in physical condition is felt, allowing the athlete to recover quickly and join again. to your sports routine in a short space of time.
The treatment in the hyperbaric chamber takes place within an airtight chamber in which the air pressure can be controlled, and consists of a specific time and number of sessions that will depend on the pathology, as well as the evolution and response of each patient. patient. For example, in wounds that do not heal, between 30 and 40 sessions must be administered, but if you want to achieve recovery from muscle fatigue after physical effort, three sessions will be enough.
Most treatments are distributed between three and five sessions per week and each session lasts approximately 60 to 90 minutes.
In conclusion, hyperbaric medicine, apart from being a perfect therapy for solving problems derived from the practice of sports, is not only beneficial at a sporting level, since by achieving high concentrations of oxygen in the blood, it can favor the treatment of a large number of pathologies.