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n. The use of low temperatures in medical therapy or the removal of heat from a body part, aiming to decrease cellular metabolism and inflammation and to promote vasoconstriction.
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Cryotherapy is the local or general use of low temperatures in medical therapy. Cryotherapy is used to treat a variety of benign and malignant tissue damage, medically called lesions. The term "cryotherapy" comes from the Greek cryo (κρύο) meaning cold, and therapy (θεραπεία) meaning cure. Cryotherapy has been used as early as the seventeenth century.
Its goal is to decrease cell growth and reproduction ( cellular metabolism), increase cellular survival, decrease inflammation, decrease pain and spasm, promote the constriction of blood vessels ( vasoconstriction), and when using extreme temperatures, to destroy cells by crystallizing the cytosol, which is the liquid found inside cells, also known as intracellular fluid (ICF). The most prominent use of the term refers to the surgical treatment, specifically known as cryosurgery. Other therapies that use the term are whole-body cryotherapy and ice pack therapy.
Usage examples of "cryotherapy".
Miles immediately when he and Quinn walked through the front doors of the Beauchene Life Center, the cryotherapy specialty clinic the Dendarii dealt with on Escobar.
You can replicate this cryotherapy relief at home by freezing water in a paper cup, peeling down the top of the cup a few inches, and having someone use the exposed ice to gently massage your back on either side of your spine while you lie on your stomach.
The thermometer under Jorgensons tongue was one intended for cryotherapy work, capable of rapid response, instead of the normal fever thermometer.
The thermometer under Jorgenson's tongue was one intended for cryotherapy work, capable of rapid response, instead of the normal fever thermometer.