03/14/19 Hyperbaric Chamber Oxygen Treatment

Hyperbaric Chamber Oxygen Treatment - Vibrant You - one of Andy's sponsors wanted Andy to come try a treatment before talking about it next week.

When we first arrived them put us on a vibration machine for 10 minutes. It is supposed to be like 1 hour of exercise in 10 minutes. It just shakes you like crazy. Gets your circulation going.

Vibration Machine

Then they had us go over to the chamber. It was like a little pup tent.

Hyperbaric chamber

We both got inside the chamber together. They pressurized the container (our ears popped at the beginning and then end). We stayed in there for about 1 hour breathing pure oxygen. We had little red light patches we could put on our sore spots. We were able to talk and text and read or play games while we relaxed. They give you the oxygen mask to start with but you don't have to wear it the whole time.

Not sure if it really did much...we both slept really well that night -- almost like we had jet lag. Seems like we had good energy this week but don't know if it was due to the treatment or the fact that it was spring break and we were playing and having fun without kids!

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