Tim Tebow Uses Personal Hyperbaric Chambers

A growing number of sports stars are using hyperbaric chambers for personal use especially for healing from injuries in games. A sports injury can be especially devastating for a professional athlete. Professional athletes sidelined because of injury can lose their standing in national rankings or their place on a team, and they risk their careers when they attempt to return to play before sufficient healing has taken place. Because professional athletes have so much at stake, many have turned to mild and personal hyperbaric oxygen therapy to speed recovery when they suffer an injury.

David Baumann of BHSN reported in a recent article that Denver Broncos rookie quarterback Tim Tebow is now one of the dozens of NFL players who have hyperbaric chambers.

BHSN interviewed Bill Schindler, the owner of Hyperbaric Therapy Center in Cumming, GA, who said Tebow arranged a deal with Oxy Health, a hyperbalic chamber manufacturer in February, 2010 in order to take control of a personal chamber.  Schindler, who has sold over 190 hyperbaric chambers to NFL players, originally assisted Tebow in the installation of his Oxy Health chamber.  “Tebow, like any professional athlete, needs treatment for his body, ” said Shindler.

Mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy helps athletes at all skill levels heal quickly and get back to their favorite pursuit. Many sports injuries involve strains and sprains, which is quickly taken care of by personal hyperbaric chambers. Life-giving oxygen is able to reach the injury site so that cells can heal and the immune system can fully defend the body against harmful agents. Healing time is reduced significantly, and athletes get back into play faster.

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The players recommend HBOT treatments in personal hyperbaric chambers and added that the oxygen treatments speeds recovery from injuries and keep them feeling fresh – ” I get a little bounce to my step,” said Moss, who also believes the practice also helps prevent injury.

Santonio Holmes owns a hyperbaric chamber. So does Maurice Jones-Drew. Hines Ward told Pittsburgh reporters it was his “fountain of youth,” while Terrell Owens famously said his chamber helped speed his recovery from a broken leg. Zach Thomas and Patrick Kerney used their own chambers for years, while Channing Crowder bought one within the past 12 months.

Brian Cushing, last year’s AP defensive rookie of the year, is a well-publicized fan of the chambers. And Dwight Freeney’s hyperbaric chamber became a huge storyline last winter when he used it to help recover from a sprained ankle before the Super Bowl.

Yes, hyperbaric chambers are all over the NFL in 2010, and they’ve long-since reached Ashburn. Sure enough, Santana Moss acquired one of the chambers about a year ago, and through Moss’s contacts, DeAngelo Hall bought his within the past month.

The media were all over this story when Gilbert first discussed it, but the tents are apparently prosaic enough in the NFL that no one seems to have mentioned Moss’s chamber, which Malcolm Kelly also regularly uses. Moss started using the technique during his second NFL season at a New York hospital, and said he saw other patients achieve great results.

“There was a police officer, she was in a bad wreck where she was a vegetable almost, couldn’t move or nothing,” Moss said. “She would go in there when I used to go in there. After that first year, she was doing things they said she wouldn’t be able to do, just by going there.”

Source: voices.washingtonpost.com