Wellness and Recovery: The 45 Minute Protocol

You start in the hyperbaric chamber, which is the longest block of the circuit and the quietest. From there you move to the cryotherapy cabin for a short exposure, usually around three minutes, and finish with LED light therapy for roughly a quarter of an hour. Times shift slightly depending on your case and what the chamber block is set to, but the whole appointment is built to fit inside a lunch hour.

No, and they are not interchangeable. Lymphatic drainage is manual therapy performed by a therapist on your body to move retained fluid. This circuit is equipment based and you are not being touched. Many patients do both, on different days, for different reasons. If drainage is what you are looking for, that is a separate service and the recovery hub explains when it starts and what it does.

Only when your treating surgeon says so. That is not a formality. Cold exposure over fresh incisions, pressure changes, and lying in a chamber all interact with what was done in the operating room, and only the surgeon who was there knows the plan. Bring your post operative instructions with you. If you arrive without clearance, we will ask you to get it before we start.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is cleared for a specific list of medical conditions, and aesthetic recovery is not on that list. The FDA has publicly cautioned consumers about chambers being promoted for uses it has not approved. What we offer is a wellness chamber session inside a recovery circuit, and what most patients report is feeling more rested afterward. We do not claim it treats a disease or shortens your surgical recovery.

Cold, intense and short. You are in dry cold air for about three minutes, wearing protection on hands, feet and ears, and you stay in contact with the operator the whole time. Most people describe the minute afterward as a rush of alertness. If you dislike cold, say so at booking, because the circuit can be run without it.

It needs to be said plainly: no whole body cryotherapy device has been cleared or approved by the FDA, and when the agency reviewed the published studies it reported finding very little evidence of effectiveness for the conditions cryotherapy is marketed for. Documented risks include frostbite, burns and eye injury, and in nitrogen cooled systems, oxygen displacement in an enclosed room. That is why exposure is short, supervised and never unattended, and why it is skipped for anyone with a contraindication.

Cryotherapy is not appropriate if you are pregnant, have uncontrolled high blood pressure, significant cardiac or vascular disease, Raynaud phenomenon, cold urticaria, or open or unhealed wounds. The chamber block is not appropriate with certain ear, sinus or lung conditions, or with recent ear surgery. If you have a pacemaker, a seizure disorder, are photosensitive or take photosensitizing medication, tell us before the LED block. Disclose everything at intake, including medications.

There is no fixed number and anyone selling you a closed package before evaluating you is selling. Patients around a procedure tend to book a short series inside their recovery window, and patients using it for training or general wellness tend to space it out. Frequency is set after we see your case and, when you are post operative, after we read your surgeon's instructions.

No. Your result comes from the surgery, your anatomy, your healing and how well you follow your post operative instructions, especially the compression garment. This circuit is a comfort and recovery service. Any clinic telling you that your final contour depends on buying a package of sessions is selling, not informing.

If you are post operative, bring your surgeon's written instructions and wear your garment as prescribed. Otherwise, comfortable clothing you can change out of quickly and dry skin for the cryotherapy block. Avoid arriving with lotions or oils on the skin, and remove jewelry and any metal before the cabin.