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 It is known
from ancient times that cold has a perfect impact to our organism. In many
cases cold relieves pain, so in ancient times people wrapped the sick and
suffering person into the sheets soaked in cold water. Currently the recent medicine
still uses cold procedures to slightly cool the whole body or some part of it
to lessen inflammatory processes. Besides, cool affects the organism to stop
bleeding. Presently, it is widely used in modern medicine and the therapy is
called cryotherapy.
So, what is
the mechanism of cold effect to the organism? It is a simple reaction of the
organism to cold condition when blood vessels get narrower and blood flow
suspends. Moreover, metabolism process is significantly reduced in the cold-treated
area. Cryotherapy is used in some widespread cases, including when:
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Ice packs applied
to injury and fraction areas; they are also good with inflammation in the area
of stomach, gall bladder, pancreatic and so forth.
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Burn areas
are dressed with bands with cooled ether.
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Ice is used
with concussions and brain contusions.
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When a
patient is bleeding because of lungs, nose or stomach problems, you may apply
ice or even intake some ice pieces.
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The whole
body is cooled to a particular degree, when performing a specific surgery to
the heart, large blood vessels and brain.
Cryosurgery
is one of the aspects to cryotherapy. Cryosurgery is the new and promising
tendency in general surgery, when low temperature is used to destroy inner
organs or tissues of the sick person prior to removal or resection thereof.
Cryosurgery is extensively experienced with brain surgery, when treating
Parkinson's disease, torsion dystonia, athetosis, spasmodic torticollis, severe
pain syndromes and other diseases, equally important. The specialists gained
winning results when employing cryotherapy in destruction of tumors of bigger cerebral
hemispheres.
Cryosurgery
is good to remove tonsils, nasopharynx, nasal tumors, prostate gland adenoma,
yet, this is not all to do with cold. Again, cryosurgery helps to treat some ophthalmologic
diseases, like removal of intraocular tumors and detachment of retina.
General air
cryotherapy is another technique in cryotherapy that is getting more popular
these days. General air cryotherapy cools the body in dry air with extremely low
temperature of -60 °С to -120°С. This procedure is possible with air cryosauna.
Air cryosauna is readily bought and
actively used at medical centers, spa-salons and fitness-clubs.
You are
recommended that you have cryotherapy if your immune system is low, metabolism
process is disturbed, regeneration process is suspended, muscular and skin tone
is reduced and in general physical degradation. You are inclined to depression,
chronic fatigue and mood worsening, then cryotherapy will help you. Also this
procedure prevents the organism from early ageing.
What is the
mechanism of cold effect? When a person is treated by extremely low-temperature
air, it affects the receptors. The procedure improves the blood circulation, it
favorably influences central and autonomic nervous system, and it activates
protection reaction of the body, increases immune system, regulates the
muscular tonus and accelerates the metabolism. If you are a customer to a
fitness-center or would like to get rid of excess weight, you will love to see
the effect from cryosauna.
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