Buyer’s guide · 6 min

Which technology, for which room.

Most enquiries begin with a technology and should begin with a room, a number of users and a goal. Here is what each of the four disciplines actually is as a piece of equipment, and what it asks of the building.

By Hagen Thiers · updated 21 September 2026

Start with the constraint, not the category

Three questions settle most of it. How much dedicated space can you give up permanently? How many people will use it, and at the same time? And is this a private amenity or something you will operate commercially, with staff and protocols?

A single-user private installation in an existing house and a four-seat facility in a new build are different projects with different shortlists, even when the stated goal is identical.

The four disciplines side by side

Comparison of hyperbaric oxygen, red light, cryotherapy and PEMF
Category	A session is	Systems	From	What the building needs
Hyperbaric oxygen	Pressure and oxygen, seated or lying, 40–90 minutes	OXYLIFE I80 → C5	€44,700	Dedicated room, five 230 V circuits, separate technical room
Red light & near-infrared	Light on skin and deeper tissue, minutes per area	KBL K11, KBL R11, Dayon RedWave	€25,000	A standing or lying unit in a treatment room
Cryotherapy	Two to three minutes of dry cold, −85 °C to −125 °C	Mecotec cryo:one, cryo:one+, 2cool, cryoair multi	On request	Electric — no nitrogen storage or handling
PEMF & massage	Dry hydrojet massage with pulsed magnetic field, up to 45 minutes	Wellsystem WaveTouch + Yobowo	€30,400	A bed-sized footprint and standard power
Lifetech	All of the above inside one pressurised shell, at every seat	5Lifetech and 7Lifetech, C1 Ext → C6	€414,000	Room 5 × 4 m, 230 V, separate technical room

Every system named above has its own page with the published price, the manufacturer’s specification and photographs: OXYLIFE I80, C3, Lifetech, KBL K11, KBL R11, Dayon RedWave, Mecotec cryo:one, 2cool, WaveTouch + Yobowo.

What each one asks of you

Hyperbaric is the most demanding installation and the least flexible afterwards: it needs its own room, its own plant room and a decision about seat count you cannot revisit. It is also the only one of the four that changes the environment rather than treating a surface.

Red and near-infrared light is the easiest to place and the easiest to add later. A unit goes into an ordinary treatment room on ordinary power.

Cryotherapy is a short, intense, repeatable session and a straightforward machine — provided you choose an electric chamber. Nitrogen systems bring storage, handling and safety obligations that most private clients do not want.

PEMF and dry hydrojet massage is the lowest-friction option of all: a bed, standard power, nothing to dry off afterwards.

When one chamber is the answer

If the honest answer to “which of these do you want” is “several”, the Lifetech line exists for that case: hyperbaric pressure as the environment, with far-infrared, PEMF, brainwave entrainment and transcranial photobiomodulation delivered at every seat inside it. It replaces four rooms with one, at a price that reflects that.

See the five-therapy chamber

What we will not tell you

We will not tell you that one of these is better than the others, because as equipment they are not comparable — they do different things. We will tell you which fits your room, your users and your budget, and where two published specifications disagree we will show you both.

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