Cryotherapy for Chronic Pain - Is it Helpful?

1. Cryotherapy for Chronic Pain – Is itHelpful? Whole body cryotherapy was first identified as an effective treatment for a variety of rheumatic diseases that affected the joints, tendons, ligaments, bones and muscles. While cryotherapy was achieving great results when treating inflammation, little was known at that stage about how effective whole body cryotherapy could be on chronic pain symptoms and muscle soreness. Whole body cryotherapy for chronic pain uses the natural benefits of extremely cold temperatures to increase the flow of oxygenated blood to internal organs, muscles and blood vessels.

2. The flow of oxygen rich blood to the muscles decreases inflammation and accelerates healing from injury, muscle and joint soreness and repairs soft tissue damage. Cryotherapy is considered to be a major part of the recovery process for sporting teams and professional athletes. Cryotherapy not only reduces inflammation for injured or sore athletes and people experiencing arthritis or tendonitis, a release of endorphins has an analgesic effect that brings with it considerable pain relief. The accumulative effect of regular cryotherapy sessions can serve as long term pain management. And beyond its benefits as a most effective form of chronic pain relief treatment, there is a strong connection to an increase in a person’s pain threshold due to the connecting signals sent between the nerves and tissue brought about by the lowering of the skins temperature during a cryotherapy session. The most effective way to ‘deliver’ a cryotherapy treatment is to immerse the body in a cryo chamber filled with extremely cold air created by liquid nitrogen. Cryocabin by Cryobody has a patented vortex cooling system to ensure the cryotherapy mist covers the body for an overall, more effective cooling and healing. For people involved in sports, Cryocabin more efficiently accelerates muscle repair and recovery and there is a noticeable improvement in the motion and flexibility for people involved in sports, people who train or anybody engaged in some physical activity. The benefits of whole body cryotherapyaren’t limited to pain relief for rheumatic diseases and sporting injuries. Cryotherapy also has a detoxifying effect on the body. Because the skin’s temperature drops so rapidly it causes a narrowing of the blood vessels which in turn improves the blood flow to the capillaries and smaller blood vessels which then deliver nutrients, enzymes and oxygen to vital organs and joints. It also assists with weight loss and skin rejuvenation. People with anxiety or depression often begin to experience positive feelings of physical, mental and emotional wellbeing after a whole body cryotherapy treatment.

3. For anti-ageing, the flow of oxygenated blood and healing enzymes through the blood vessels increases the production of collagen for greater skin elasticity and firmness. Whole body cryotherapy, when used as part of a routine that includes a healthy diet and exercise, rapidly increases the body’s metabolic rate. After being exposed to extremely cold temperatures the body can burn between 2,000 and 3,300 kilojoules as it returns the body to warmth. The initial burning of kilojoules after a whole body cryotherapy treatment is enough to commence a gradual process of weight loss when combined with a healthy lifestyle and regular cryotherapy sessions.