Surgery takes a toll on the body. Even when everything goes well, your tissues are stressed, your immune system is stretched, and healing can feel slow and unpredictable. More patients and physicians are turning to hyperbaric oxygen therapy after surgery to give the body a genuine advantage during that critical window.
What is Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy?
Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, also called MHBOT, involves breathing 100% concentrated oxygen inside a pressurized chamber. The elevated pressure lets your lungs absorb far more oxygen than they could under normal conditions. That oxygen-saturated blood reaches tissues that are inflamed, damaged, or starved of circulation.
It has been in clinical use for decades. World-class athletes use it to dial in their competitive performance. Doctors use in-office HBOT or MHBOT to improve pre-and post-surgery results. The evidence behind it for post-surgical patients keeps growing. Now you can access these same techniques for yourself.
How MHBOT supports post-surgery healing
After surgery, circulation to the affected area is often compromised, which stalls healing and raises the risk of complications. Tissues need oxygen to heal, and MHBOT addresses this directly:
- Accelerates wound closure and epithelialization so the surgical site seals and rebuilds faster
- Kills bacteria at the wound site through reactive oxygen species, reducing infection risk
- Boosts immune function, giving your body more firepower to protect the healing area
- Enhances antibiotic effectiveness when antibiotics are part of your post-surgical care
- Stimulates collagen production and new blood vessel growth, restoring circulation and structural integrity to healing tissue
What the research actually shows
A peer-reviewed narrative review published in Medicina found that oxygen therapy can result in rapid healing and epithelialization of wounds following cardiac, neuromuscular, and other major surgeries.
Effectively, MHBOT speeds up the process of post-surgery healing, where new epithelial cells grow to cover the surface of the wound. These cells restore the skin’s protective barrier by keeping the “good” fluid in and the “bad” bacteria and pathogens out of the wound.
The same study identified three distinct mechanisms behind HBOT’s ability to fight surgical site infections:
- Direct bactericidal effects through the formation of reactive oxygen species (aka the oxygen can directly kill bacteria)
- Improved immune system response
- A synergistic effect with antibiotics that makes them work better
Surgical site infections are among the most common and costly post-operative complications. HBOT addresses them from multiple angles at once.
What a session at Oxy Performance actually looks like
You lie back inside the chamber, unless you decide to use our vertical chamber in which you can sit or stand. The pressure increases gradually. You breathe. That’s the session.
Most run 60 minutes. Clients regularly report feeling refreshed and clearer afterward, not fatigued. There’s no downtime from the therapy itself. You can come in, finish a session, and get on with your day.
The team at Oxy Performance in Hermosa Beach is there if you have questions. Sessions are calm, comfortable, and private.
Good candidates for post-surgical MHBOT
MHBOT tends to be a strong fit after:
- Cardiac and thoracic procedures
- Orthopedic surgeries (joint replacements, ligament reconstruction)
- Plastic or cosmetic surgery
- Abdominal and colorectal surgeries
- Any procedure where wound healing or infection risk is a concern
Your body does the healing. MHBOT gives it more to work with.
Once you’ve been through surgery, you are in control of your recovery process. In addition to the healing effects of time, hyperbaric oxygen therapy gives your post-surgery tissues more oxygen, better circulation, and a research-backed environment for repair.
Talk with your surgeon before adding any new therapy to your recovery plan, and if you are in agreement that MHBOT is the right choice for you, Oxy Performance is here to help with your recovery progress.
Visit our sessions page to see what’s available, or go ahead and book at Oxy Performance in Hermosa Beach.
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