Cold Therapy and Pads

Cold therapy or "cryotherapy" is used by health care professionals to treat acute injuries of the musculoskeletal system.

Cold Therapy is intended to reduce your metabolic rate, inflammation, circulation, muscle spasms and pain.

Cold therapy cools your skin's surface and underlying tissues, which results in the narrowing of your blood vessels, a process called vasoconstriction. Vasoconstriction of your blood vessels causes a reduction in the blood volume to the site of your injury, resulting in reduced swelling. Cold-induced vasoconstriction also decreases the likelihood that your cells will die due to lack of oxygen, as cryotherapy reduces your cells' metabolic rate and oxygen requirements. It's still not entirely clear how cryotherapy helps lesson your pain, but the cold stimulus may override your pain sensation.