The advantages of cryotherapy

Turns out using cold can cure diseases and even relieves pain. This treatment method has appeared recently, but has already become one of the most sought after. The great thing - Fashion: patients often require a cold treatment they were assigned, not thinking about that, as well as any active methods of influence on the body, cryotherapy has its indications and contraindications.

Cryotherapy - cold this medication dosage that has curative effect on the body. The cold activates the protective properties of the organism (immunity), endocrine and neurohumoral systems, provides resistance to mental and physical overload, increases well-being and performance. These properties allow the use of cryotherapy in the treatment of many diseases.

Cryotherapy is performed in a special Cryochamber (cryosauna) where the skin for 2-3 minutes, cooled in a gaseous environment at a temperature of 130-140 ° C. In order to avoid frostbitten hands and feet wear gloves and wool socks, face worn cotton-gauze bandage.

Start of cold treatment

Back in the old times, people knew that the cold has health properties and prevents aging Internal and external aging: it is necessary to think in advance . People swimming in the hole, plunged after a bath in the waters, jumped into the drifts and so on. But a Japanese doctor Toshima Yamauchi went on. In his clinic for the treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, T. Yamauchi in the 70s of the last century said that the cold may reduce joint pain. Having tried a variety of ways to exposure to cold, Yamauchi came to the conclusion that the body cryotherapy is best to cool the gas. In Europe and in Russia cryotherapy came after 10 years, getting every year more and more popular.

The mechanism of action of cold on the body

The mechanism of short-term exposure to cold the body is what is happening initial spasm (reduced clearance) of small arteries, which then (after exposure to cold) is replaced by the expression of their extension. Blood flow to dilation of small arteries lasts from one to three hours, resulting in increased heat generation and improving nutrition tissues as skin and internal organs, stimulation of the heart and blood vessels, facilitating venous drainage.

To the entire body is not supercooled, the temperature should drop very quickly, while defensive reactions will not have time to react, directing the amplified blood flow to the skin surface and the heat remains inside the body - to catch cold in such a situation is impossible. But if the cold is growing slowly, the skin begins to surge the blood - this can cause the whole body hypothermia and not bring the desired healing effect.

Which diseases apply cryotherapy

Cryotherapy helps in the treatment of diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal system, the spine, inflammatory and metabolic diseases of the joints, endocrine (including obesity) and skin diseases. Cryotherapy is used, for example, for cellulite: With blood flow to straighten nervousness on the skin, and due to the enhanced heat transfer is a loss of excess weight.

This is counter-cryotherapy

As with any procedure, have a significant effect on the body, cryotherapy has a number of contraindications:

• allergic to the cold;
• acute infectious diseases;
• severe coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction;
• cerebral strokes;
• hypertension (except for the initial stage);
• cardiac and renal failure.

Cryotherapy home

Of course, a full-fledged home cryotherapy may not be possible, but to reduce the pain and swelling of the tissues can make compresses of ice cold water (for bruises, sprains and so on). To reduce headache Headache   napkin applied to the forehead with cold water or hot water bottle with ice. Thus there is a spasm of small blood vessels, blood flow slows down, preventing tissue swelling. Furthermore, it reduced sensitivity of nerve endings, and therefore reduce the pain.

Cryotherapy replaces the surgeon's scalpel

Cryotherapy with liquid nitrogen is used to remove moles, warts, warts, scars on the skin of acne. The death of tissue thus occurs because the deep and long enough (30 seconds) freezing in liquid nitrogen under slight pressure.

Other methods of exposure to cold

If necessary the surface to the skin, liquid nitrogen is applied briefly (less than 10-15 seconds) as cryomassage. Cryo is used for skin rejuvenation Five tips for skin rejuvenation: how to cheat age   face and body, while there is a decrease wrinkles, sagging skin, restore elasticity and shape breasts and getting rid of fat.

Cold is used to clean the skin and remove from the surface of dead skin cells (kriopiling).

There is also a new method for introducing drugs into the body using a cold - krioelektroforez. At the same time using pulsed electric current in the deeper layers of skin are introduced frozen drugs. This method is often used to treat skin diseases.

Cold Treatment - is an effective procedure that is performed as intended and under the guidance of a doctor.

  Galina Romanenko

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