Hyperbaric Oxygen Chambers and Professional Athletes

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Hyperbaric Chamber Athletes

Hyperbaric Oxygen Chambers

Professional athletes have reportedly received HBO2 before sports participation, believing that performance would improve (28). Contradictory findings have been reported regarding the effect of a single HBO2 treatment on aerobic performance. A Yugoslavian study (29) demonstrated that HBO2 prior to treadmill running to volitional exhaustion increased peak running velocity and VO2max when measured 30 minutes and 3 hours posttreatment. HBO2 was administered for 60 minutes at 2.8 ATA. Enhanced performance and VO2max were attributed to additional oxygen storage in skeletal muscle. However, to our knowledge, this link has yet to be definitively established.

In contrast, two recent studies (30,31) reported no change in submaximal and maximal exercise performance following HBO2. Webster et al (30) administered a single 60-minute HBO2 treatment at 2.0 ATA followed by a cycling test performed on average 22.5 minutes posttreatment. McGavock et al (31) examined aerobic performance following a 90-minute HBO2 treatment at 2.5 ATA with a running test performed about 40 minutes posttreatment. In both studies, time to exhaustion and VO2max were unchanged.

It is difficult to rationalize how prior HBO2 could enhance performance. Tissue retention of oxygen following treatment is unlikely since tissue autoregulation reduces O2 levels upon return to a normobaric, normoxic environment (32). Webster et al (30) used near-infrared spectroscopy to examine tissue oxygenation at rest, throughout exercise, and during recovery.

Following an HBO2 treatment, muscle tissue oxygenation during rest and recovery was similar to control.

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