Cryo and Local Cryo
Cryotherapy is one of the oldest methods of physical therapy.
Treatment with cold was already known in the Middle Ages, when people used anesthetic properties of ice and snow. It is an effective form of treatment that allows for restoring fitness and improving health.
Cryo involves exposing clients to extremely cold temperature for a few minutes. Our Cryo using whole body cryotherapy method. Cryotherapy method has now been implemented in many spas and cryo fitness studios.
Treatment in Cryo may be effective in relieving soreness, or muscle pain, through reduced muscle metabolism, skin microcirculation, and receptor sensitivity. Also a cryo could help to improve weight loss and cellulite reduction effects.
The three-minute treatment in Cryo involves standing in a deep freeze chamber while temps plummet as low as -200\-250F degrees Fahrenheit.
The bone-chilling procedure claims to torch up to 500-800 calories, rejuvenate your metabolism, release endorphins, soothe sore muscles, improve sleep, calm inflammation, reduce cellulite areas, and even reverse the signs of aging.
Local Cryo
Local cryo has a wide spectrum of application. And for this reason, it enjoys great popularity. Local cryotherapy treatment involves blowing of a mixture of liquid nitrogen vapor and cooled air. Making circular movements, a physiotherapist applies frozen air over the area subjected to cryotherapy. A single treatment usually lasts from several dozen seconds to 30 minutes.
This treatment method is more and more frequently used, also in cosmetics. If you have a problem with cellulite, erythema, birthmarks, with dilated capillaries or other skin imperfections, it is worth going to the nearest beauty salon and enjoying this treatment.
Cryotherapy is also used in face and body plastic surgery, in cellulite and overweight treatment and in prevention of aging processes. Local cryotherapy in the area of surgical site during plastic surgery and liposuction after application of sutures and before tourniquets significantly reduces postoperative oedema, accelerates the skin healing process.
Thanks to local cryotherapy, skin becomes more oxygenated and, consequently, firm and luminous. Cryotherapy also helps to fight with wrinkles, since anti-wrinkle and moisturizing cosmetics are introduced into the skin during the procedure. Skin stimulated with cold absorbs all cosmetic preparations much better, which, thanks to the low temperature, can reach deeper layers of the epidermis. Therefore, the face oval improves, wrinkles become smoothed and the skin – stimulated for regeneration.
Cryotherapy helps to take care of not only the face, but also the neckline, stomach, breasts, neck, buttocks and arms. Treatments carried out at low temperature reduce stretch marks, swelling or spider veins, making the skin more elastic and firm
Treatment with cold in sport brings positive effects during healing of injuries, which has been confirmed by numerous tests. It is also an indispensable element of effective preparation and regeneration of the sports person. Athletes both in Poland and in the world use local cryotherapy. Cryotherapy in sport primarily accelerates body regeneration after training, has analgesic, anti-swelling, and antiinflammatory effects, supporting treatment of various types of injuries to the musculoskeletal system.
Advantages
- Improve Limitation of circulation in a particular place
- Improve Slower metabolism
- Improved blood supply and oxygen absorption in tissues
- Stimulated cold receptors
- Reduced activity of heat receptors
- Formation of vasomotor changes
- Inhibited inflammation
- More oxygenated skin - firmer and more elastic
- Smoothed wrinkles
- Improved face oval
- Faster skin regeneration
- Reduction of disappearance of oedema
- Reduced muscle tension and reduced pain by launching an internal analgesic response
When to apply the treatment?
- Treatment of joints and muscles
- Injuries of joints and soft tissues, e.g. sprains, dislocations
- All rheumatoid and rheumatic diseases of the motor organs, e.g. rheumatoid arthritis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Joint diseases caused by metabolic disorders (gout)
- Periarticular inflammation
- Degenerative spine disease
- Burns – removing thermal shock
- Discopathies
- Enthesopathies
- Tendopaties
- Myalgias
- Tendon diseases, torn muscles and ligaments
- Prevention of osteoporosis
- Multiple sclerosis
- Oedema, bruises, post-traumatic hematomas
