Cryotherapy: Properties

The healing properties of cold humanity opened in antiquity and was using them when dealing with certain health problems. If earlier this purpose mainly used ice, with the development of medical technologies cryotherapy has become a self-direction and was, among other things, based on the properties of liquid nitrogen. It received the name and self - cryotherapy.

Advantages of cold exposure is difficult to overestimate: in properly selected doses and at the right mode, it helps to activate the immune system, improves the function of the endocrine and neurohumoral systems, increases stress resistance and excessive exercise, performance and health. Traditional hypothermic cryotherapy involves quite simple procedures like douches, cold baths, swimming in the hole, packs of ice pieces. A more recent approach is the impact of inert gas nitrogen or, in extreme cases, a conventional air cooled to a temperature of minus minus one hundred fifty to one hundred ninety degrees Celsius.

Types of cryotherapy

Courses cryotherapy can be conducted both in general terms and locally. In carrying out cryotherapy usually use special facilities - cryochamber. The residence time in these patients seldom exceeds two or three minutes. For such a short period of time skin is exposed to the stress test cold, but receives no visible signs of frostbite and other cosmetic defects.

Going to the cryo-chamber, should take some precautions: in particular, wear wool socks and mittens to protect the so-called distal extremities. Another must-have accessory - cotton-gauze face mask. Women enter the cryo chamber in swimsuits men - swimming trunks.

The mechanism of healing effect of cold on the human body can be represented approximately as follows: a sharp decline in ambient temperature results in instinctive spasm of the small arteries, and then they expand, and there is an increase in blood supply to tissues and organs - flushing. It is accompanied by increased heat generation, improved nutrition of tissues and organs, improvement of venous outflow, which is inextricably linked with the stimulation of the heart and blood vessels.

Courses cryotherapy often included in the rehabilitation program of patients who received injuries of the musculoskeletal system, undergoing various surgeries, suffering from diseases of the spine and joints. Cryotherapy is also sometimes recommended as a fairly effective way to combat obesity.

Cryotherapy in Cosmetology

In cosmetology cryotherapy tools can act ice, gas and oxygen. Necessary funds usually selects dermatologist based on the clinical picture and contraindications. And physiological age restriction for the treatment of cosmetic problems via exists of cryotherapy. It has been successfully used to eliminate and reduce wrinkles, cellulite Cellulite , Anemic signs of insufficient blood supply to the skin, acne, warts, seborrhea Seborrhea - treatment is not complicated, but mandatory , Increased sebaceous excretions of the skin, baldness. In addition, light cryotherapy sometimes becomes a preparatory procedure before the cosmetic massage, facial peeling and so on.

At home, the anti-aging treatments, which can be called Cryo, is carried out using a cosmetic ice. It can be purchased in a store or a drugstore, and you can cook on their own. Water from the tap is not suitable for this - preferably bottled or mineral without gas, as well as teas and infusions of various herbs, green tea Green tea Diluted juices. Freeze ice need large chunks as cooling a small area for the mesh subcutaneous capillaries undesirable. And most importantly: during the domestic session, cryotherapy can not supercool the skin - the whole process should take no more than five minutes.

Svetlana Usankova

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