One of the biggest stars in world football, Cristiano Ronaldo, 37, looks like a boy playing at a high level. He recently posted a video on social media entering an ice chamber in Dubai. At the time, he was undergoing a recovery and rehabilitation treatment called cryotherapy, something he has been doing regularly since 2013. He also has the same device at home and is not alone in the world of sports, as hundreds of top-level athletes use it. this process and others that combine a lot of technology and innovation.
Cryotherapy was invented by the Japanese rheumatologist Toshima Yamaguchi, in the late 1970s. Since then, it has allowed several high-performance athletes to recover much faster than traditional methods. It serves for fractures, sprains, inflammations, muscle recovery and for several other purposes.
Cryotherapy is one of the methods used by several teams that participated in the recent World Cup in Qatar to recover more quickly from different types of injuries that occurred to athletes during the competition.
“There are several treatments that accelerate the regenerative and recovery process. In a high performance competition it is very important to control pain and inflammation, with systems used in cryotherapy, in addition to the use of high power laser and tecartherapy, as an example. This model consists of equipment manipulated by the physiotherapist, which delivers energy in the form of heat and promotes tissue adjustments and improves the feeling of tiredness”, says physician Rodrigo Dispato, Cyber Cross specialist in sports physiotherapy.
About cryotherapy in particular, Rodrigo Dispato points out that the technique creates a series of stimuli in the patient’s body, so that the body itself fights the injury. “During exposure to this intense cold, the organism begins to feel that it is losing to the low temperature and still does not know how long this exposure lasts”, he comments.
Another widespread treatment among sports professionals is the hyperbaric chamber, which works with the supply of hyperbaric oxygen in an individual chamber, that is, close to two atmospheres. The equipment promotes an increase in the concentration and pressure of this gas in the breathed air. Helps in reducing wound healing time, very useful in treating infected wounds with faster and more efficient improvement, in addition to helping with muscle recovery and overtraining. Widely used by high-level athletes.
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