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Cryotherapy- The Healing Power Of Coldness
Since the ancient times, cryotherapy was practiced by Hippocrates, Avicenna, Galen and many other doctors and healers. However, regardless of the early experience related to using coldness for medicinal purposes, the mechanism of its effect has been explained with details in the second half of the twentieth century.
Cryotherapy is one of the oldest physiotherapeutic methods, as are heat therapy, or thermotherapy. In fact, cryotherapy encompasses a synthesis of healing medicinal methods based on applying low temperatures so that the tissue, the organs and the entire organism cool off (in Greek, kryos means coldness; therapy-healing). Since different authors have different theories about temperature, there is not a generally accepted definition of cryotherapy. Furthermore, the physiological effects of this kind of therapy are numerous: pain relieving, relaxation, anti-inflammatory properties; and it is used against swellings and varicose veins, since it narrows the blood vessels.
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2015/10/cryotherapy-healing-power-of-coldness.html
