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I regret not getting clearer pictures to zoom in and see the words on the instruments but I felt the need to be discreet as I was just walking by, these ocean-front home garages are rarely/NEVER left open unattended. What is this mystery chamber?
One more different angle picture in the comments, you can see the seating bench in the chamber.
In case anyone else was curious, looks like the most common use is for the rich to recover faster from the bruising and swelling of plastic surgery.
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My wife has to have a full knee replacement. I wonder if this treatment would help her recovery.
I'm not a billionaire but I'd gladly pay the cost for a bunch of sessions if it would help.
My wife had to have her knee replaced a year ago, and she's only in her 30s. The recovery was slow, and she complains about the range of motion she lost, but it's a lot more stable than her old knee at least.
But her case was also one-of-a-kind complicated, because she has a rare genetic condition where her kneecaps basically never worked in the first place. In any case, she got through it.
Anyway, I hope everything goes well for your wife.
Hyperbaric treatment is used for wound care. My wife had to do a bunch of it after a surgery, but only because things weren't healing well on their own.
Given the choice, she would have preferred to skip it. It's very annoying because you can't wear any moisturizer, chap stick... anything with oil. O2 reacts with oils and it's a fire hazard.
Well, the good news is that this is just a fake hyperbaric chamber that rich people get swindled into buying because they don't actually understand science.
Actual hyperbaric chambers are illegal to own and operate in residential properties, so there are private companies that build chambers that do not run on the right amount of pressure or oxygen to reap the benefit of hyperbaric medicine.
This is just an expensive form of snake oil.
I don’t think it’s right to say these treatments don’t do anything positive.
I recommend them for everyone with over 100 mil dollars. Make sure to get the nicer carpeted version and wear comfy socks!
Are the dangers that high? And how is this enforced?
They are very dangerous to operate. You're working with 100 percent O2 under pressure, so even little things like lotions/ perfumes that use a thinning product can cause combustion.
As far as enforcement.... There are only a couple different companies capable of making a chamber that can withstand 6 atmospheres of pressure safely, and they're all governed by CMS like other pieces of heavy duty medical equipment.
There's a lot of licensing and overwatch for medical equipment like this, if a company were to actually make one without going through the proper channels the companies and licensing orgs that have done their due diligence would come after them.
Not to mention that breathing 100% O2 at pressure can be deadly by itself.
100% O2 at sea level means you are breathing about 1 bar of oxygen, usually called 1 partial pressure of oxygen (PPO2). The commercial machine in the OP supports 1.5-3 atm of pressure, assuming that I saw the right info. 100% O2 at 3 atm would mean breathing about 3 PPO2, which is more than enough to cause problems.
You said it needs to safely support 6 atms of pressure, do you mean for the safety margin? You could safely breath air (21% O2) at 6 bars, it would be about 1.25 PPO2. Breathing 100% O2 at 6 bars would be about 6 PPO2, absolute insanity.
Divers expose themselves to a maximum of 1.4 PPO2 because it starts to become toxic at 1.6 and above.
When diving, there is a balancing act between nitrogen and oxygen that starts with your air mixture. More oxygen and less nitrogen lowers your risk of decompression sickness (caused by nitrogen) and allows you to stay deeper for longer, but it lowers your maximum operating depth (MOD) because of oxygen toxicity.
A common "nitrox" mixture is 32% O2, which has a MOD of 111 ft. Going deeper risks having seizures underwater which are obviously extremely dangerous. We put the O2 mixture and maximum PPO2 into our dive computers and never exceed any of the thresholds it gives us.
That said, things like cold, physical exertion, etc. bring the threshold down to that 1.6 bar number. You are exposed to those things while scuba diving but not in a hyperbaric chamber, so the threshold is probably higher in a hyperbaric chamber.
I wouldn't ever think about "hyperbaric oxygen therapy" outside of a hospital, the risks are too high.
High oxygen concentrations are extremely dangerous.
Pre 2025, FDA in US
A comment of silence for the FDA. It will be missed.
Anyway Don’t forget the people who burn alive! Like that kid at the shitty autism clinic thing.
If you aren’t a professional you risk static shocks and things like that which turn it immediately into a fire death tube.
That makes sense... After learning about it from my wife's experience, I wouldn't want to go on that journey without a professional present. Shit can go very wrong.
Yeap, my dad used to run hypobaric chambers for the air force and then for the FAA. Just maintaining that kind of equipment is basically a full time job, let alone actually monitoring their uses.
has. people - kids - have been killed. they're really good when managed correctly but dangerous as fuck if standards/training fall.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/03/13/what-we-know-oxford-center-hyperbaric-chamber-child-death-royal-oak/82364065007/
Holy shit, this is shocking.
yeah that particular shit show is def nearing worst case scenario.
Oh wow. What a nightmare.
Just go grab this one. The garage door is open!
For reals. Because update: I walked past it again after work this evening now dark outside, and the garage door is still wide open! Fully lit inside and still no one in there. Very weird. Maybe they forgot they left their garage door open. But this area, there are billionaires and there are homeless people, you know how beaches are, so people are usually really tight about their security so it makes me wonder why they left their garage door open all day and I also wonder how there's been no intrusion or robbery yet.
Ummm…. My many jokes aside…. Are you sure they aren’t dead inside of it or something?
It's wide open with no indication of human occupancy from the angle I could see. I dunno. I didn't go any closer than the photos indicate.
One of my speculations is (first of all that whole unit looks brand squeaky new, like it's never even been used before), I speculate they're just low-key showing it off because their pathetic overly-wealthy lives with all the fuck-you-money, they can buy anything they want , but what fun is that if they can't show off their wealth to all the lowly humans around them? 😆 And no harm done if anybody breaks in or steals it, they could just buy another one.
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Maybe it's a suicide pod?
are they doing the thing with the automatic on/off ice water cooling. It use to be standard for a lot of surgeries but medicare dropped it and then insurnace followed suit but its not that expensive and people make jury rig ones real cheap.
My mom had both knees done and recovered fairly quickly and she's horrendously out of shape.
my wife was in decent shape with her first surgery but there is something with her that she always is in the worst percentile of outcomes. Happens with medications to. She gets the side effects that only a few people do. No idea why. Im the opposite.
I hope things go well for her.
Thanks but they by and large don't and we plan for that and handle it as best we can. Sure wish I lived in a civilized country where you could get some support with difficult situations like this though.
Good luck to her. I had a partial on Wednesday. I've worked with many PT patients. She can do it!! And two weeks after she will feel so much better!
It can also help with a lot of conditions like MS and ME.