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"Cryotherapy": Presented By
"Cryotherapy": Presented By
“Cryotherapy”
Arwa abdelmohsen 202101040
Rowan shabara 202101945
Sara sameh 202101969
Mariam Mustafa 202102028
Benefits:-
1.Reduced edema
2. Decreased tissue damage
3.Reduced pain
4. Reduced muscle spasm
5.Reduced inflammation
Indications:-
-Chronic pain
-Sleep disorders
-fibromyalgia “Especially effective for bursitis and tendinitis”.
-Decreases fluid filtration into interstitium by vasoconstriction.
-Decreases inflammation.
-Decreases metabolic rate.
-Reduction of feverd.
-Patients with acute spinal cord injury.
-In acute injury cold is used most often in conjunction with
compression and elevation.
Clinical indications for cryotherapy:-
-Allergy
-Traumas
-Psoriasis
-Asthma
-Blood-stroke
-Heart attack
-Small ,superficial first degree burns whichcooling burns can
decrease magnitude of injury by reduction in edema,pain,
local fluid loss, tissue injury, and blood volume during the first
48 hours after injury.Post orthopaedic surgery e.g. TkR, Acl
reconstruction arthroscopic shoulder.
-Post -exercise Arthritis
-Fractures
-Menopause
-Diabetes
-Neurodermatitis
-Infertility
Contraindication
-Impaired sensation. Patients cannot report when they become
anesthetic from cold. Tissue damage occurs slightly below
temperatures that produce numbness.
-Impaired circulation: tissue damage may result from vasoconstriction.
-Open wounds after 48 hours.
-Hypersensitivity to cold, such as Raynaud's phenomenon, cold
urticaria, cryoglobulinemia, and paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria.
-Angina pectoris or other severe cardiac disease.
-Regenerating peripheral nerves.
Contraindication
Mechanism of
application
Ice packs:-