Cryotherapy in cosmetology
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Local cryotherapy/cryomassage (from the Greek cryos - “ice”) is a therapeutic effect on the organs and tissues of the body of cold factors that reduce the temperature of tissues not below the limits of their cryostability (5-10 ° C) and do not lead to a significant change in the body’s thermoregulation.
For cryotherapy, cryoagents are used that are in three states of aggregation: solid (ice, snow, ammonium nitrate), liquid (water, ether, liquid nitrogen) and gaseous (mixture of ethyl chloride, etc.). All of them cool tissues by absorbing heat. The temperature of the substances used for cooling ranges from -80 to -28 °C.
Cryotherapy made a powerful leap to the forefront of medical science and practice in the early 2000s. This breakthrough was possible with the beginning of the use of general cryotherapy (cryosauna) on a relatively large scale. In fact, this technology is about half a century old, and before this invention there was only local cryotherapy - cryodestruction, cryomassage, cryoirrigation.
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