Robbie Paul hasn't given up hope of playing again before the end of the season.

The Bradford Bulls skipper suffered a

fractured arm during the 35-0 home defeat against St Helens on June 27, but is pinning his comeback on a hyperbaric chamber.

The 27-year-old is receiving treatment every weekday in the chamber at West Yorkshire Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre Ltd at Leeds Road, Rawdon.

Eternally optimistic New Zealander Paul said: "I have heard it can knock one-and-a-half months off your recovery time.

"I have used it before to take swelling down off my feet. It's not very comfortable in there, but I am reading a fantasy novel - Bernard Cornwell's Harlequin."

Centre manager Joanne Goodwin is being more wary than Paul and said: "You cannot tell how quickly one person improves compared to another during treatment, but it does make the healing process quicker.

"When Robbie is in the tank we compress it to 33 feet, so that it is the equivalent of being under 33 feet of sea water.

"How often we give Robbie the treatment depends on the advice of his physiotherapist."

Goodwin added: "Because a person in there is breathing oxygen under pressure it saturates the red blood cells and then it saturates the plasma, which is the watery part of the blood. Oxygen is a great healer and patients do tend to get back on their feet quicker."