Performance · 2 Oct 2026 · 6 min

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy and athlete recovery

A club keeps a chamber because staff can run it between two sessions. The hour is 1.3 ATA, self-operated, next to the treatment table.

Training rooms ask for recovery in plain language. Someone has trained, the next session is close, and the staff already in the room need a unit they can run without a plant room and without a second technician.

The mild line holds 1.3 ATA. It is self-operated: two zippers, redundant regulators, a compressor that filters to 0.01 microns. More than a thousand players and teams have used the family across football, basketball and other codes. The notes we keep are about a season of use, not a single evening.

For daily duty the usual specification is Vitaeris 320 or Quamvis 320, both 81 cm. Quamvis adds the external frame you can hold while getting in, which matters when people are tired. Solace 210 belongs with someone who already knows the protocol and has to take it on the road. Respiro 270 is the step between, when 53 cm is too tight and 81 cm will not pass the door.

Fortius 420 is the other conversation: a steel shell, two adults, preset pressures up to 2.0 ATA in the EU and UK. It is not a soft chamber you roll into a kit bag. If the medical staff want that pressure class, say so before the quote.

We will not call this a revolution in sports performance. We will tell you which diameter the treatment room can hold, which pressure you are allowed to run, and whether the people already on the staff can operate it between two sessions.

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