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Walking by this beachfront billionaire house, the garage was open & I saw this. This chamber has a bench in it for seating maybe 2 people max. Oxygen chamber perhaps? (europe.pub)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (27 children)

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.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 26 points 1 week ago (13 children)

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.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 21 points 1 week ago (12 children)

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.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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/

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 2 points 1 week ago

Oh wow. What a nightmare.

[–] LyD@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Holy shit, this is shocking.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

yeah that particular shit show is def nearing worst case scenario.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

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.

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