Equine athletes & Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

HBOT for equine athletes - Racing Taken to the next level:

The stable with access to a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber has an indispensable tool to sharpen their winning edge.

 Equine Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy plays a vital role in rehabilitation, sports medicine, and conditioning for the equine athletes. Equine Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for horses offers the opportunity to prove the benefits and value to Thoroughbred and Standardbred owners and trainers. The treatments will be used on current in-training horses to enhance post race recovery time.

Equine athletes treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy are better able to consistently compete at their full potential and has made possible the complete rehabilitation of horses with injuries deemed to be career ending. Horses consistently returned back to the track with greater frequency.

Equine HBOT sessions used for general preventative athletic therapy, to treat minor chronic disease. Horses who could previously compete only every 2-4 weeks have been able to step to the gate weekly and compete at their full potential. Re injury rates are consistently lower than without HBOT treatment.

By speeding the healing of injury due to the wear and tear of racing (i.e. lung and microcirculation damage), allow them to race at higher levels. Effective in helping to aid recovery after strenuous activity such as racing, jumping, cross-country or endurance workouts and exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage.

The beneficial effects would include reduction of tissue swelling, reduction of pain associated with swelling and inflammation, and enhancement of the connective tissue repair process. Beneficial for both high-performance equine athletes as well as pleasure horses.

Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology Laboratory demonstrated that HBOT reduces the production of lactic acid, lowers heart rate, and increases respiration effectiveness.  The musculature of equine athletes provides the explosive power of the jumper and cutting horse, the speed of the thoroughbred, the stamina of the endurance horse and the fine motor control of the advanced dressage horse.  Properly applying HBOT to such elegant performance would net greater performance to already superb athletes. 

Veterinary practitioners and horse owners are quick to sing the praises of this therapy. The use hyperbaric oxygen therapy is increasing worldwide.