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Cryotherapy, sometimes known as cold therapy, is the local or general use of low temperatures in medical therapy.Cryotherapy can be used in many ways, including whole body exposure for therapeutic health benefits or may be used locally to treat a variety of tissue lesions.
Vacuactivus is an international company for the production and sale of cryotherapy chambers and equipment for fitness rehabilitation, founded in 2000. It is one of the three largest manufacturers of cryotherapy chambers and cryo-equipment in the world. [1] [2] The headquarters is located in Los Angeles, California. [3]
Combining cryotherapy with immunotherapy enhances the immunostimulating response and has synergistic effects for cancer treatment. [ 6 ] Although, cryoblation and immunotherapy has been used successfully in oncological clinical practice for over 100 years, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and can treat metastatic disease with curative intent, it has been ignored in ...
Cold compression is a combination of cryotherapy and static compression, commonly used for the treatment of pain and inflammation after acute injury or surgical procedures. [1] [2] Cryotherapy, the use of ice or cold in a therapeutic setting, has become one of the most common treatments in orthopedic medicine. The primary reason for using ...
cryotherapy [ edit on Wikidata ] Cryosurgery (with cryo from the Ancient Greek κρύο ' icy cold ' ) is the use of extreme cold in surgery to destroy abnormal or diseased tissue; [ 1 ] thus, it is the surgical application of cryoablation .
Cryomassage is a type of massage involving the application of superficial cold to body tissue, [1] typically using ice or liquid nitrogen. [2] As a cryotherapy technique, cryomassage has been used to treat physical injury, [3] skin disorders [1] such as rosacea and facial erythrosis (redness), [2] and facial nerve neuropathy.
Dr. Irving S. Cooper, in 1913, progressed the field of cryotherapy by designing a liquid nitrogen probe capable of achieving temperatures of -196 °C, and utilizing it to treat of Parkinson's disease and previously inoperable cancer. Cooper's cryoprobe advanced the practice of cryotherapy, which led to growing interest and practice of cryotherapy.
The hunting reaction or hunting response is a process of alternating vasoconstriction and vasodilation in extremities exposed to cold. The term Lewis reaction is used too, named after Thomas Lewis, who first described the effect in 1930.