Cryotherapy: Benefits, Uses and Precautions

Last updated:February 06, 2025, 18:26 IST

Explainer- Whether it is muscle tightness or stretch, the skin is burnt or a lot of mole, cryotherapy is helpful to cure many diseases. This also reduces the speed of aging. Cryotherapy increases due to social media …Read more

Food should be eaten 2 hours before the cryotherapy (image-canva)

Many Bollywood and Hollywood celebrities including Karthik Aryan, Rakulpreet Singh, Samantha Ruth Prabhu continue to take celebrity and Hollywood celebrity. When the celebrities posted its photo on social media, this therapy started becoming popular among the people as well. This therapy has many benefits. This therapy of a few minutes makes the body fed along with refreshing the body.

What is cryotherapy
Cryotherapy is a therapy in which the person is kept for 3 to 5 minutes between a temperature of minus degrees Celsius without clothes. A special kind of room is made for this. This extent cold temperature benefits the body immensely. Liquid nitrogen is also used many times to keep the temperature at minus degrees. At the same time, some people like to take ice bath in this therapy. In this, a dip in cold water is done in less than 15 degrees. This therapy is also from ice pack. The price of a session of cryotherapy starts from 4 thousand rupees, which can go up to 10 thousand.

Remove stress
Excessively cold water or cold environment, leaving the body open without clothes for a few minutes, the body’s stress hormones like noradrineline and corsitol levels start decreasing. If the level of stress hormone decreases, then Happy hormones like dopamine and endorphine start releasing, which makes the mood good. With this therapy, the person feels very relaxed. In some studies, it has been revealed that cryotherapy makes the immune system strong and mental disorders like depression, anxiety stay away.

Cryotherapy can cure skin disease called eczema (image-canva)

Weight decreases
Cryotherapy improves the metabolism of the body. This type of temperature increases antibodies and T cells to increase the body’s immunity, which increases metabolism. In this cold environment, the body burns more calories to keep itself warm, which causes weight loss.

Aajing is far away, skin becomes immaculate
Skin expert Dr. Sanjay Bharija It is said that cryotherapy is a fat freezing technique that makes the skin toned. This makes the flow of blood in the skin good, which makes a good amount of collagen. The skin is tight from this chemical called collagen, which does not cause wrinkles. That is, cryotherapy reduces the speed of aging. Not only this, people who have sunburn, have unique skin tone problems or there are stains, sesame, warts on the face, then all these problems can be overcome by cryotherapy.

Reduce body pain
Cryotherapy is very beneficial if people who have cramps in muscles or are pain in the body. This causes muscles relax and abnormal tissue repair or removal. People who do workouts should do cryotherapy regularly. This does not stretch the muscles. It is also beneficial for those who have undergone surgery, but for this it is necessary to consult a doctor first.

Cryotherapy causes swelling under the eyes to disappear (image-canva)

Cancer is also treated
Cleaveland clinic According to the recommendation of cryotherapy is also given to cancer patients. People who suffer from bone cancer, liver, cervical, prostate cancer are cured quickly with the help of this therapy and the pain also reduces. This can also be done in skin cancer allergies. Retinoblastoma of retina found in children is also treated by this. In fact, in cryotherapy, a very cold temperature is treated with the body’s abnormal tissue. On this temperature, the sales are unable to survive and end. This therapy is done in two ways. If the bad tissue is on the skin, then the person is seated in a cold temperature room and has a tumor, then cold temperatures are done inside the body with the help of some instrument.

These people should not take this therapy
People who have any kind of wounds on their body or are allergic to cold temperature or have a heart patient are not given cryotherapy. Pregnant women should also avoid this. This therapy should be taken under the supervision of an expert and with the advice of a doctor. There are also many side effects of this therapy. It can also cause stomach torsion, bleeding, bone fracture or infection.

Treatment was also done in ancient Egypt
Dermatology online general According to it, there is nothing to treat with cryotherapy. 4500 years ago, evidence of curing injury was found in ancient Egypt with the help of this therapy. Some people also used to take it beauty treatment. In 1845, Dr. Zems Ernott of England did this research and found that cold temperatures cure many types of diseases including headache. He found the treatment of cancer at a temperature of -18 ° to -24 ° C. Dr. Zames Ernott is also called Father of Cryotherapy.