HBOT - Sports injuries in soft tissue and bone

The need for a treatment that promotes faster healing, allowing the athlete to return to competition and training faster, as well as offering a low risk of re-injury is very much emphasized these days due to high intensity competition among athletes.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is the perfect adjunctive therapy during the course of rehabilitation.

Sports injuries, ranging from broken bones to disrupted muscles, tendons and ligaments, maybe a result of acute impact forces in contact sports or the everyday rigours  of training and conditioning.

Hyperbaric Oxygen increases deposition of collagen, which is the main component of cartilage, ligaments, tendons, and bone. Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy will provide the greatest benefit to injured areas of connective tissue that have low blood supply, such as the musculotendinous junctions and ligaments.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is essential for the building of new blood vessels or neovascularization, which is important in the stimulation of reparative and regenerative processes.

Benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) for soft tissue and bone injuries:

* Reduction in swelling and pain

*Prevents hypoxia to traumatized tissues

* Speeds up healing of tissues, ligaments and fractured bones

* Reduces scar tissue formation and damage

* Shortens recovery time after extreme exercise injury or surgery

* Increased anti-oxidants

* Stem cell mobilization

Treatment of acute soft tissue and bone injuries should be started as soon as possible after the injury.Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is increasingly being used by athletes to speed healing and recovery from injuries, and reduce fatigue.