Cryotherapy is a more advanced, efficient form of ice therapy: ice baths can last up to 20 minutes, are painful and damaging to the skin. Ice baths involve actual tissue-freezing which can cause stiffness and immobility. In contrast, whole body cryotherapy lasts only a maximum of 3 minutes, is not painful and does not freeze tissue. In fact, after whole body or local cryotherapy, mobility is improved, along with reduced inflammation and pain.

Cryotherapy tricks the brain into thinking it is hypothermic shock which triggers it’s anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and metabolic benefits.