How Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Helped Actor Jeremy Renner Recover After His Snow Plow Accident

The human body contains around 206 bones. On New Year’s Day in 2023, actor Jeremy Renner broke 38 of them when he got pulled under a 14,000-plus-pound snow groomer (think giant snow mover with metal tracks instead of wheels). His long list of injuries included a crushed eye socket and a punctured lung, and he had to undergo multiple surgeries.

Today, Renner is back in front of the cameras with a smile on his face after a long recovery process that included hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

If you think that hyperbaric oxygen therapy is reserved for the rich and famous, think again. At Clover Oxygen Hyperbarics and Wound Center in Aledo, Texas. Dr. Leon Tio treats a wide range of patients and issues, from diabetic foot ulcers to post-surgical healing.

Here, we explore what hyperbaric oxygen therapy did for Renner to help you understand that this noninvasive treatment can do the same for you.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy to speed healing

The human body has an amazing ability to heal itself, given enough time and the right circumstances. With injuries like Renner’s, however, the body can be overwhelmed — and that can slow down healing. 

One of the big benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy is the introduction of 100% oxygen, which is critical to the wound-healing process. For reference, the air you breathe contains 21% oxygen.

This added and pure oxygen helps your body to speed up repairs by supporting the immune system and promoting vascularization, or the creation of new blood vessels.

Increasing the pressure through hyperbaric oxygen therapy

You understand that introducing more oxygen helps provide the added resources your body needs to heal and repair itself more quickly. But why do we place you in a pressurized chamber to deliver the oxygen? 

By increasing the pressure around you and then introducing oxygen, we can push the oxygen into your body instead of only having you breathe it in using a mask or cannula. The pressurized chamber enables oxygen to penetrate through your skin, flooding your tissues where it can do the most good.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy to control pain

While we can’t speak for Renner, we can imagine that he was in a good deal of pain. In many cases, pain stems from inflammation in your body. We can control this inflammation through hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The extra oxygen helps reduce inflammation, so pain recedes.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy to ward off infection

Renner had extensive injuries, and the threat of infection was extremely high. As you might imagine, adding infection to his already challenging situation would have made things exponentially worse. Through his use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, he avoided serious, and even life-threatening, infections.

What can hyperbaric oxygen therapy do for you?

While we hope you don’t need to come see us for injuries as extensive as Renner’s, we do want you to know that this therapy is available for your needs. 

Whether it’s fighting a tough infection, recovering from burns, managing chronic fatigue syndrome, or some other health issue, hyperbaric oxygen therapy can play a positive role in your health.

To learn more or to schedule treatment, contact Clover Oxygen Hyperbarics and Wound Center today.