Cryotherapy is the local or general use of low temperatures in medical therapy. Cryotherapy is specially known as pain management treatment that employs targeted freezing temperatures to destroy an irritated nerve, aberrant skin cells, or specific regions. In addition, it is also used for treatment of various cancers such as prostate cancer and skin cancer. This treatment involves inserting a probe into the tissue close to the afflicted nerve to freeze it. The freezing inactivates the nerve, hence relieving painful nerve irritation. Various gases are used to create the intense cold in cryotherapy. Liquid nitrogen, liquid nitrous oxide, and argon gas are some of the gases used in cryotherapy treatment. One of the most commonly used device for cryotherapy includes cryochambers. These chambers are of two types such as the Partial-Body Cryotherapy (PBC) and the whole body cryotherapy (WBC). These Partial-Body Cryotherapy (PBC) operates using nitrogen gas to decrease the temperature. This cryochamber is a tube-shape, which surrounds a person's body and has an open top to maintain the head at ambient temperature. Electricity is used in whole body cryotherapy (WBC) to lower the temperature within the chamber. In contrast to the first, the person enters the electrically powered chamber completely. Cryotherapy can be used to treat conditions that involve irritation of an isolated nerve that include nerve irritation between the ribs (intercostal neuralgia), cluneal nerve entrapment, hypogastric neuromas, and ilioinguinal neuroma.
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