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Cryotherapy

What is Cryotherapy?

Cryotherapy is a treatment where your healthcare provider applies extreme cold to freeze and destroy abnormal tissue. To create this severe cold, our skilled specialists will use a substance like liquid nitrogen or argon gas. Cryotherapy can be used to treat a variety of skin conditions and some cancers. This therapy can treat tissue externally (on the skin) and internally (inside the body).
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What cryotherapy method will DOC Medical Center use?

There are different cryotherapy methods to freeze tissue. The way your healthcare provider applies the cold depends on the location of the abnormal tissue.
- External: If the tissue is located on your skin, your provider will typically use a spraying device or a cotton swab to apply the freezing agent.

- Internal: To treat conditions inside the body, like precancerous cells or a tumor, your provider will use an instrument called a cryoprobe. This probe is inserted through a small incision (cut) in your skin

What are the benefits of Cryotherapy?


- Reduces migraine symptoms: Cryotherapy can help treat migraines by cooling and numbing nerves in the neck area. It is thought that this works by cooling the blood passing through blood vessels.

- Numbs nerve irritation: Many athletes have been using cryotherapy to treat injuries for years, and one of the reasons why is that it can numb pain. The cold can numb an irritated nerve.

- Reduces arthritic pain: Localized cryotherapy treatment isn’t the only thing that’s effective at treating serious conditions. There are extensive studies proving that Cryotherapy significantly reduces pain in people with arthritis.

- Treats atopic dermatitis and other skin conditions: Atopic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with signature symptoms of dry and itchy skin. Cryotherapy can improve antioxidant levels in the blood and can simultaneously reduce inflammation, it makes sense that both localized and whole-body cryotherapy can help treat atopic dermatitis.