Cryotherapy is making headlines again as being part of a health maintenance routine for some celebrities. But can this bone-chilling treatment really benefit health?
Depending on the intended purpose of use cryotherapy can be different things ranging from the Polar Bear Club taking the plunge in cold water immersion to using liquid nitrogen to freeze anything it comes into contact with in science class, or medical use like tissue destruction of a wart, or freezing off precancerous/cancerous cells.
Cryotherapy isn’t exactly new, but using it for physical and mental health benefits is a fairly new trend, aside from it being used to help treat athletic injuries for some time now. Additional uses and indications are under development, and their validity/effectiveness is for the most part uncertain.
