What is Cryotherapy?

The benefits of Cryotherapy

Cryotherapy is also sometimes referred to as 'cold therapy', because it involves exposing the body to very cold temperatures for minutes at a time. Cryotherapy can take many different form: including through ice baths, ice packs, ice massages or through probes that are inserted into the skin to administer the cold treatment.

There are many reasons for why people choose to undergo cryotherapy. It is very popular, for example, with athletes who may have ice baths regularly in order to help them heal from injuries, while also numbing the pain from their injuries.

Cryotherapy is recognized as having multiple health benefits- from treating migraines, to skin conditions, to nerve damage. Research is still ongoing into the exact health benefits of cryotherapy, but in many instances the benefits are numerous and significant.

Cryotherapy in keloid and scar removal

Increasingly cryotherapy is being used in the treatment of keloids and scars. Keloids have long been an issue, for both medical professionals and patients, due to the difficulty involved in their removal. Often treatments to remove they are not successful, or require long, intensive and often painful treatments.

Cryotherapy, however, seems to offer a treatment solution that is painless, fast, and most importantly, effective at removing keloids and stubborn scars.

The Cryoneedle, developed by Life by Ice in partnership with Chaban Medical (one of the leading medical device companies in Israel for development, manufacturing and marketing), applies cryogenic fluid (liquid nitrogen with a boiling temperature of -196°C (-320.8°F) to a selected area (the keloid or scar) in order to ensure cellular destruction of the scar itself. It does so through the use of a very fine probe, which is able to be inserted into the keloid itself, ensuring the treatment effectively destroys the keloid. This probe is a sharp pyramid-shaped, sealed, distal tip.

This combination of cryotherapy and the penetration achieved by the use of the Cryoneedle probe, has led to the creation of a treatment for keloid removal that is efficient, quick, pain less, effective and which involves minimal wound care. This in turn reduces the risk of infection, meaning it is a safer form of treatment too.

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