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Cryotherapy - what is it?
Cryotherapy - treatment with low temperatures, is used in various fields of medicine to solve superficial problems of skin diseases, and pathologies located in the deeper subcutaneous layers.
What are the goals of cryotherapy? It is known that with a decrease in temperature, all metabolic processes slow down, and blood access to the cold area becomes difficult. And this means that in this way it is possible to stop the spread of pathological processes to neighboring tissue sites. There is no blood flow and lymph flow, and infectious agents will not be able to move from the site of infection to the main blood and lymph highways.
Pathological cells will not receive nutrition and will not be able to maintain metabolic processes, and this, in turn, will make it difficult for them to divide.
The temperatures at which the tissue cells die off will make it possible to cut off the pathological tissue site without surgery, bloodlessly, without affecting the neighboring areas, since cold temperatures can be applied by controlling the time, exposure area and depth of cold penetration.
Thus, cryotherapy is able to solve problems and have a therapeutic effect in inflammatory processes (including purulent ones), allergic reactions, injuries (local anesthesia), shallow surgical interventions (local anesthesia), provoke vasoconstriction and their expansion in a given tissue area, provide an antispasmodic action on tissue.
Cryoreagents are used in the form of spray cans, in the form of cryoprobes, hypothermic pads for cryotherapy. The refrigerant is liquid nitrogen.
For non-invasive and superficial cryotherapy procedures, temperatures are used that do not exceed the permissible limits, beyond which a critical metabolic disorder and tissue death occurs.
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