Cryotherapy is a physiotherapeutic procedure, the therapeutic effect of which is based on the body's responses to hypothermia of the outer (receptor) layer of the skin to a temperature of -2 ° C.Such hypothermia does not lead to tissue damage, but has a powerful irritating 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 the treatment of 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 in diseases of peripheral vessels, in which arterial circulation is disrupted; systemic blood diseases; individual intolerance to cold.
