Cryotherapy is a physiotherapeutic procedure, the therapeutic effect of which is based on the body's response to supercooling of the outer (receptor) layer of the skin to a temperature of -2 ° C. Such supercooling does not cause tissue damage, but has a powerful irritant effect on the central nervous system and causes a number of positive changes in the immune, endocrine, circulatory and other systems of the body.
Indications for use
The procedure is effective in treating diseases of the nervous system, diseases of the circulatory system, diseases of the immune system, diseases of the endocrine system, rheumatological diseases.
Contraindications
Therapy is contraindicated for peripheral vascular diseases in which the arterial circulation is impaired; systemic blood disorders; individual intolerance of cold.
