Our Chambers
We offer monoplace (single person) hard hyperbaric chambers which afford you privacy and comfort. These roomy hard-sided Marine-Dynamic chambers are 9½ feet long, 42” in diameter, and 134” in circumference. These Marine-Dynamic chambers are sizable enough to fit two people in the event a patient's medical needs require accompaniment in the chamber (i.e. a parent with a child).
In addition, we also have a clear-sided Perry Baromedical Sigma I acrylic hard chamber. The Perry’s acrylic main compartment allows excellent peripheral vision during the treatment period.
All of our chambers are airy and light-filled and two-way communication with the technician is continuous. The spacious interiors increase patient treatment acceptance by reducing the likelihood of confinement anxiety.
Benefits of Hard Hyperbaric Chambers
“Soft-sided” or
"Inflatable" Chambers DO NOT Provide the Same Benefit
as Hard Chambers.
- HBOT provided in a hard chamber can regrow bone and tissue in severely damaged areas of the body; soft-sided chambers cannot achieve these objectives.
- Treatment provided in a hard chamber is supported by thousands of clinical studies which validate successful healing when using a hard chamber. No such correlation has been made with soft-sided chambers and healing.
- Most treatment in hard chamber is recognized for reimbursement by insurance companies and the federal government. This is not true for soft-sided chambers.
- Hard chambers are made to go to pressures that heal; soft-sided chambers are designed to temporarily treat divers and mountain climbers in route to a hard chamber.
- Soft-sided chambers promote the undesirable growth of aerobic bacteria whereas hard chambers kill harmful bacteria.
- Soft-sided chambers cannot go past 1.3 absolute atmospheres and thus cannot heal like a hard chamber can.
For additional information on hard versus soft or inflatable chambers, visit the following website http://www.hboinfo.com/air-bag_chambers.htm. Hyperbarics of San Diego is an independently owned center that is associated with Hyperbaric O2 Centers, Inc., http://www.hboinfo.com/
Hyperbarics of San Diego
Gateway Medical Center
995 Gateway Center Way, Suite 108
San Diego, CA 92102
(619) 263-0067, Toll free (888) 691-1482, Fax (619) 263-0340
Hyperbarics of San Diego is an independent clinic, owned and operated by Healing Chambers of America, Inc.
