Edmund Sumner has been spending the last year recovering from a torn Achilles on his left foot.  Sumner chose Dr. Martin O’Malle, the Nets’ foot specialist and also the surgeon for Kevin Durant’s torn Achilles, to perform his surgery.

“I see how Kevin came back from his injury and came to being one of the best players in the world,” Sumner said on the “Voice of the Nets” podcast. “I was like, ‘Who did his surgery? I need to go to that person!’ I need this done right.”

The surgery was successful, but the road to recovery was a rough one.  Thankfully HBOT was included in Sumner’s recovery protocol and allowed him to successfully be back on the court dazzling the Nets, resulting in getting signed in July 2022.

Sumner not only underwent hyperbaric oxygen therapy (breathing pure oxygen in a chamber with the air pressure increased two or even threefold), but also did quadruple the usual amount of sessions

By February, Sumner was dunking again. And in June, despite not being able to go 5-on-5 — his strength as an open-court player — he had enough explosion to impress the Nets in a workout.

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