Not to be confused with cryonics, the practice of freezing dead people, cryotherapy is said to enhance your life, wellbeing and even ease pain through blasting your skin cells with freezing cold air. After hearing about cryotherapy chambers online with the likes of Christiano Ronaldo and Jennifer Aniston reportedly using them, our reporter Sophie Mei Lan Malin went to experience a thermal blast treatment.
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00:00What are the benefits of cryotherapy?
00:02So because it takes your body down to a very low temperature quickly, your body has a physiological
00:10response to that and it can help with inflammation, it can provide you with some analgesia if you're
00:17in pain, it also has benefits to your skin so if you've got psoriasis, eczema, any sort of
00:23inflammatory skin condition it can help with that. There has been some benefits in that it can
00:28increase your metabolic rate as well but most people do use it for improving sleep,
00:35mood, we do have patients come in that have fibromyalgia, it's absolutely amazing for
00:42muscular pain so we have athletes, football players, rugby players that like to use it
00:48because it helps them to recover quicker and then you can also use it pre-game as well
00:55and sort of fitness competitions so you can use it before you compete and also after as well.