ONKOCET Ltd. has exhibited the devices from its portfolio on the MEDTEC UK exhibition in Birmingham, April 2011 through our partner Medical & Partners.
A fundamental possibility to use cryotherapy in sport is generally recognized, but there are no worked through methods and no established use directions of this new treatment in practice. Partly that situation can be explained by the fact, that cryosaunas were very expensive until recently and the worse fact - they were stationary. The second important reason is that, the effects, which are described in literature, not always agree with a practice.
It's connected with the absence of clear idea about the technology and physical mechanism of cryotherapy. By the description of the process, main attention was drawn to the inessential factors and vice versa important treatment factors were missed. In addition to it the majority of settings for the cryotherapy don't ensure the temperature stability in treatment room, because of errors in the construction and deficient installed power. It means that it doesn't provide main treatment condition - efficiency and we can only wonder at, that the cryotherapy in such state gave the results.
With the advent on the market of the settings of the Second Generation, which are relatively cheap and mobile, appear the prerequisites for the systematic use of cryotherapy in the training process and sports medicine. It's worse to enumerate the cryotherapy effects, which can be used in sport, one more time.
Cryotherapy treatment ensures:
Based on the made above list of positive cryotherapy treatment results, it's possible to plan a potential directions of its use in sport.
1. Stimulation of the training process due to temporary individual advantages suppression
- cryotherapy creates the prerequisites for a total function correction of the organism to nominal parameters. It was noticed, that the speed of response decreases after the cryotherapy by people with a quick response and vice versa people with a slow response become a faster response.
Presumably cryotherapy has the similar effect on the other physical properties of sportsmen: endurance, power etc. Depriving the person of his innate abilities it is possible to stimulate the training process. The same method is used in figure skating, when sportsmen use an extra weight during the trainings, and at the competitions they perform without extra weighting material, therefore they perform without particular strain.
2. Sports medicine - analgesic and regenerative action of cryotherapy allows accelerate the process of injuries, breaks, burns treatment etc. without analgesic and medicines, under the present-day ideas about the correctional action of cryotherapy. Injured organ is interpreted by the organism as anomalous zone and the immune system concentrates on it and creates conditions for accelerated healing process.
3. Training process - the forming of the sufficient motivation for achievement in high results, while training process is one of the coach's problems. The psychological weariness accumulates by the sportsmen while intense training process, because of frequent exercises repetition. Powerful endorphins outburst makes up the psychological overloads, just after the cryotherapy, and after 6-8 hours the patients feel relaxed, they don't feel the tension and fall into a deep healthy sleep.
4. Massage and the rehabilitation - analgesic action and take off the joint stiffness, relieves the rehabilitation after the injuries, patient can take an active part in trainings and load an injured organ. That accelerates the recovery of physical strength and prevents the complications. The increase of pain tolerance and warming-up of the skin surface raise the efficiency of the massage.
5. Prophylaxis of the sickness rate - infectious and catarrhal diseases disrupt the planned training for the competitions, degrades the results, therefore the prophylaxis of the sickness rate is of great importance. Systematic cryotherapy treatment provides for the sportsmen a good immune status and prevents diseases.