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From helping reduce swelling and muscle soreness to boosting blood flow to the tissues, sports cryotherapy is something that’s becoming increasingly popular among athletes, celebrities and health and fitness enthusiasts alike. But how exactly does this form of sub-zero therapy work and how does it help your body? We’ll cover how cryotherapy works, its benefits and how it can take your fitness to the next level.

What is Whole Body CRYOtherapy exactly? While most in the fashion industry are obsessed with the latest trends, there is a new health treatment now available in the United States (and abroad for that matter) that is gaining the attention of today’s fashion industry. The simple answer is that Whole Body CRYOtherapy is a 3 minute session where your body is exposed to vaporised liquid nitrogen that will run all over the surface of your skin. The body will initiate a physiological response that you are freezing and begin to draw blood into your core, causing the blood to draw from your extremities, which causes your body to pump additional oxygen and nutrients into your blood. At the end of the session, the body will circulate freshly oxygenated blood throughout the rest of your body.

The beauty and health industry are always claiming they’ve found the next big thing; a miracle cream, an age defying treatment, or a revolutionary product. It’s easy to brush off most of these claims as exaggerations because of the frequency with which they’re made. Given this pattern, we’ve realized that many of the assertions being made by CRYO could be being questioned as well. After all, if you haven’t tried the treatment it’s difficult to gauge how effective the results actually are. There’s one key factor that sets CRYOtherapy apart from other treatments and it’s the fact that it’s entirely natural. Bodies have a tendency to react in different ways to different chemically formulated products but natural, organic methods leave very little room for variation.

We probably all know the feeling, it hurts when you touch it, it feels swollen and warm, it looks red and you can actually feel your heart beat; the cardinal signs of an inflammatory response. This type of response might occur when you just sprained your ankle or recently had a surgery to your shoulder. When you think about it, you probably put ice on it or tried to cool it down in another way. It is commonly accepted that cryotherapy has an anti-inflammatory effect after soft tissue injury but why and how does it work?

In our previous blog, we made a differentiation between a whole body cryotherapy chamber and a cryosauna and answered the question what is the safest and best technology to reach my goals? It became evident that the directed effects between the two technologies are different. In this blog we look into one of the reasons why the results are mixed; should we expose the head and neck as well to the cold?

More and more centers are opening worldwide providing whole-body cryotherapy services using a lot of different technologies. To reach "cryo temperatures” either electricity or nitrogen is used. Within the nitrogen- cooled units, we differentiate between chambers and saunas, either via “direct” or “indirect” exposure to nitrogen. This all results in essential questions from the client: What’s the safest and best technology to reach my goals?