Management of Injuries
Cryotherapy is used in sports medicine in the treatment of both acute and chronic injuries.
Benefits of localised cryotherapy and WBCT in management of sport’s injuries
- Decreased swelling and oedema
- Management of acute and chronic pain
- Decreased inflammation
- Increased tissue perfusion leading to faster healing time
- Improved tolerance to do physical therapy
- Reduced stiffness
- Mood improvement
- Shortened convalescence
- Prevention of chronic injuries
- Prevention of development of pain memory
- Prevention of joint restrictions
- Reduction in time of joint immobility
- Prevention of muscle atrophy
Enhanced Athletic Performance
Benefits of WBCT in sport performance
The benefits of WBCT are multi-faceted and relate to the effects on muscle action, the conditioning of the cardiovascular system and the effects on the central nervous system.
- Biostimulating effect and faster recovery time
- Improvements in strength and endurance training
- Faster recovery in post-traumatic healing time of bruising and swelling of soft tissues and joints
- Conditioning of the cardiovascular system
- Decreased haemolysis after intense physical exercise
- increase of haptoglobin
- increase of MSCV
- Reduced sports anaemia
- Improved muscle resistance to fatigue
- Improved muscular capacity to regenerate
- Increases in muscle perfusion, reducing lactic acid build-up
- Adaptation of body temperature regulation
- Improvements in general wellbeing and mood
- Improved immune system
- Hormonal modifications related to the body’s adaptation to stress:
- Increased release of noradrenaline
- Improvements in inflammation
- Increased anti-inflammatory cytokine interleukin IL-10
- Decreases in pro-inflammatory interleukin IL-2 and chemokine IL-8
- Decrease in intercellular adhesion molecule-1
- Stabilisation of lysosomal enzymes