Sport & Recovery

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is increasingly favored by top athletes worldwide and has become a crucial part of many sports gyms. It helps athletes recover faster from intense training, speeding up muscle repair, reducing inflammation, and enhancing overall recovery. With its ability to improve oxygen delivery to tissues, HBOT is an essential tool for boosting performance and maintaining peak physical condition.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy can help athletes from

• √ Increases mental focus
• √ Increases serotonin levels
• √ Improves blood circulation
• √ Increases energy levels
• √ Increases Collagen Production
• √ Accelerates jet lag recovery

• √ Reduces lactic acid
• √ Hyperbaric chamber muscle recovery can reduce muscle fatigue and stretch injury
• √ Reduces Inflammation & Pain
• √ Reduces Susceptibility Towards Re-injuring Target Areas
• √ Heal soft tissues, ligaments and fractures faster
• √ Enhances Recovery from Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL) & Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injuries

How Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Works for Athletes?

After engaging in high-intensity exercise, the body primarily relies on the glycolysis system for energy, which leads to the accumulation of lactic acid in the muscles and bloodstream. This accumulation causes a drop in pH levels, resulting in fatigue.

Lactic acid is a byproduct of glucose metabolism during exercise. When the intensity of exercise exceeds the capacity of aerobic metabolism, the lactic acid produced cannot be broken down into water and carbon dioxide quickly enough. This causes anaerobic metabolism to take over, leading to a buildup of lactic acid in the body. As a result, muscle soreness and fatigue occur, hindering performance and recovery.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) can significantly enhance recovery by increasing the amount of oxygen in the blood, reducing carbon dioxide levels, raising the pH value, boosting tissue oxygen reserves, and eliminating lactic acid. This helps to speed up the recovery process, especially after intense physical activity.

One of the key benefits of HBOT is that it doesn’t require any recovery time, making it ideal for athletes and those with busy schedules. Treatment sessions typically last between 60 to 120 minutes, and many patients find the time relaxing. During the session, patients sit or lie down in a pressurized hyperbaric chamber. They can use this time to read, listen to music, watch a movie, work on a laptop, or simply take a nap. After the session, patients can resume their normal activities immediately, allowing athletes to benefit from HBOT before a big game or competition.

Professional Athletes and Hyperbaric Chamber Sports Recovery

Many top athletes, including NBA players, Premier League footballers, and renowned athletes in sports like judo, skiing, and swimming, increasingly turn to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) to enhance their performance and improve recovery. Hyperbaric chambers are now a common tool in the sports world for treating sports injuries and helping athletes quickly regain their physical fitness after intense training or workouts. The therapy accelerates healing, reduces inflammation, and promotes faster recovery, allowing athletes to maintain peak performance and minimize downtime.

LeBron James

LeBron James, also known as “King James,” is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Now in his 30s, he continues to perform at an elite level, showing no signs of slowing down. His business manager, Maverick Carter, attributes much of LeBron’s sustained success to his dedication to physical maintenance and recovery. By prioritizing proper recovery strategies and advanced therapies, LeBron ensures his body stays in peak condition, allowing him to extend his career and maintain his competitive edge.

Michael Phelps

While preparing for the 2012 Olympics in London, Michael Phelps started sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber as part of his recovery routine. Today, Phelps is the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, surpassing the previous record holder (Soviet artistic gymnast Larisa Latynina) by 10 medals, but back in 2012, he was looking for ways to boost his recovery after training sessions.

Joe Namath

Of all the athletes who use hyperbaric therapy, Joe Namath is one of the most outspoken. Joe Namath, nicknamed “Broadway Joe” was a Quarterback for the NY Jets. Namath’s experience is unique in that he started HBOT to address his symptoms of cognitive decline after multiple concussions. In an interview on The Howard Stern Show, Joe Namath said he “had a minimum of 5” concussions and that he had watched fellow football players slowly lose their memory. This prompted him to find out more about what was going on inside his brain.

Rafael Soriano

Rafael Soriano is another athlete who started using hyperbaric oxygen therapy in his 30s and enjoyed a notably long career in the world of professional sports. As MLB pitcher who played for 5 different MLB teams, Soriano learned to perfect his recovery regimen over his 13-year career, adding HBOT in 2012

Rashad Jennings

Rashad Jennings is another former NFL player to incorporate hyperbaric oxygen therapy into his recovery regimen. During his time playing for the New York Giants, Jennings told the New York Post, “I use it to rejuvenate and energize… even on a cognitive level, it helps out.” Jennings scored 12 touchdowns in his time with the Giants and rushed a total of 2,095 yards.

Zhang Weili

Chinese professional mixed martial arts athlete, Asia’s first UFC world champion. She said that she often lay in the lying type hyperbaric chamberafter high-intensity training and rested for 1 to 1.5 hours in order to achieve the effect of rapid recovery of physical fitness.

Nemanja Majdov

The first ever Judo world champion from Serbia, one of the Youngest champion in Judo. He said that our hyperbaric oxygen chamber help him to improve his skills and speedy recovery from hard training. Also recommend our chambers can make a fantastic health results for sportsman, but also for a normal people.

Javana Prekovic

As an athlete, javana Prekovic keeps using MACY-PAN’s hard  lying chamber to remove mustcle fatigue and keep fit. It’s a much faster recovery than she would normally have on her own, and she often recommends it to her friends who feel the need for hyperbaric chambers in their lives as well!

Veronika Mala

Veronika Mala, the Czech Handball European Champion, regularly uses the hyperbaric chamber, which has a verttty gentle ramp-up and is very comfortable for her, both for resting and for getting rid of the aches and pains from exercise!

Vite Dragic

Vito Dragic is from Slovenia. He won gold, silver and bronze medals in the European Cup many timesVito Dragic said as a professional hyperbaric chamber for athletes help him with his regeneration and recovery. He is using it ev

Tyler Jeffrey Dillashaw

Tyler Jeffrey Dillashaw (born February 7, 1986) is an American former professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former two-time UFC Bantamweight Champion. He recently underwent surgery and purchased our hyperbaric chamber to accelerate wound healing and post-operative convalescence!