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Cryotherapy
Cryotherapy has been applied successfully for many years in various kinds of diseases, in particular, in the rheumatoid ones. The therapy is associated with a method of treatment of particular parts of the human bbody. There is still another kind of therapy, so called a systematic cryotherapy which deals with the whole human body, but because it requires relatively expensive and more specialized equipment, it is still less known. The systematic cryoterapy depends upon placing a person in the cryogenic cabin where the temperature amounts from - 100°C to -160°C. To achieve the cryotherapeutic effect, the whole body of a patient must be subject to the cooling. The systematic cryotherapy due to the low temperature (below -120°C) evokes the stimulating reactions of the organism lasting no longer than 3 minutes. The stimuli influence the whole surface of the body to evoke defence reactions which are therapeutically profitable and effective in restoring the status quo of the human organism. The therapy depends on one's entering the cabin and staying in it for about 3 minutes. In the cabin the patient is dressed in knee-length socks, long gloves and a mask which covers the nose and mouths ( all these coverings are to protect the most sensitive parts of the body against any frostbite). This kind of therapy has the systematic character. Thanks to this method, it makes possible to heal and rehabilitate the people who suffered not only from rheumatoid diseases. This method is applied to the patients with spasticity of muscles and all those who experienced traumatic and post operation states, or those who suffer from primary and secondary degeneration of their locomotor organs. Exceptional effects of healing have been observed in the sports traumatology. The systematic cryotherapy has become an optional method in healing the sports traumas, and it is also applied as a method of the biological regeneration.