Cold Therapy
Ice and cold packs are used in Physiotherapy to relieve pain, swelling, and inflammation from injuries and other conditions such as arthritis. Cold Therapy is often used as part of our Physio treatment programme.
The key aspects of cold therapy within an overall Physiotherapy treatment are:
- Cold therapy can also reduce muscle spasms by making muscles less sensitive to being stretched
- Cold is noted for killing pain ('deadening' of nerve-cell activity)
- Cold reduces swelling (Combined with compression). Cold initially constricts the walls of blood vessels and compression restricts the amount of blood which can reach an injured body part.
- Cold lowers metabolic activity
- Studies show that cold produces large decreases in oedema (swelling) and a good reduction in discomfort. .
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