If you’re having constant back pain, there’s an advancement in therapy that just might be the perfect remedy. What’s that you might ask?

Cryotherapy! This innovative and research-proven cold therapy treatment activates your body's natural pain and inflammation fighters. Who would have thought that placing your body in a cold air sauna for just three minutes could bring you such relief from pain!

Back pain is one of the leading sources of chronic pain experienced by Americans. The benefits of cryotherapy are relief from any pain and inflammation you may be experiencing, accelerated muscle recovery, a reduction in joint pain, higher energy levels and an increase in metabolic rate.

Let’s take a deeper look at exactly how you cryotherapy helps back pain and a number of other ailments.

1. What Is Cryotherapy?

Before looking at the benefits of cryotherapy for back pain it is useful to take a look at what cryotherapy is so that you know exactly what to expect during your treatment.

This treatment was developed 40 years ago in Japan by a doctor to treat his rheumatoid arthristis patients, so there is 40 years of research proving its efficacy.

How does it work? Cryotherapy is a full-body treatment in which you spend just 3 minutes in a cold air sauna. a cold air sauna. The cold ait triggers your body's systemic pain and inflammation fighters to go to work, which then accelerates your body's healing and recovery.

After treatment with cryotherapy, your joint pain is severely reduced, your muscles feel recovered, and your mind and body feel better as you experience an endorphin rush and energy boost.

2. Relieves Pain & Inflammation

Cryotherapy is especially useful for relieving back pain and it can also be used to:

Eliminate pain and inflammation from arthritis, tendonitis, ligament sprains and muscle strains
Accelerate muscular recovery from workouts
Increase metabolic rate
Improve sleep quality
Boost post-operation healing (knee, hip or shoulder surgery)

If you suffer from any of these plus back pain then you can benefit in multiple ways from a cryotherapy treatment. You can also combine cryotherapy with other pain management treatments like cold laser therapy and NeuFit neuromucular therapy.

When you combine these therapies you will experience the best possible outcome to your pain, post-op and/or performance goals.

2. Accelerates Workout Recovery

If you are experiencing back pain after exercise then cryotherapy could be the right solution for you.

During cryotherapy, the body produces cold shock proteins that help the body to survive in extremely cold conditions. These proteins, experts believe, are related to an increase in amino acids and tissue-building hormones. These compounds keep your muscles and tissues healthy.

If cryotherapy is done following a challenging workout there will be an excess of tissue-building compounds. This allows for a faster and better recovery.

3. Increases Caloric Burn

Often back pain can be caused by excess weight. One side benefit of cryotherapy is it's propensity to increase calorie burn that will lead to weight loss!

How? When your body is exposed to extremely cold temperatures, its response is to generate internal heat (i.e. thermogenesis) to maintain core temperature.

This thermogenesis process prompts your body to burn adipose (brown fat) to create enery and heat, which elevates your metabolic rate and thus, caloric burn rate. This process lasts two-to-four hours after a cryotherapy session, buring a projected ~500 calories.

It is important to remember that results vary depending on many factors like genetics, body composition, and type of fat.

4. Improves Sleep Quality

One of cryotherapy’s greatest benefits is improved sleep quality.

How does Whole Body Cryotherapy help you sleep better? Because your body responds to the cold by releasing a substantial amount of nor-epinephrine, acetylcholine and serotonin, endorphins which are vital to the activation of REM sleep.

Web MD states: “Endorphins act as analgesics, which mean they diminish the perception of pain. They also act as sedatives. They are manufactured in your brain, spinal cord, and many other parts of your body and are released in response to brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. The neuron receptors endorphins bind to are the same ones that bind some pain medicines . . . Endorphins also trigger a positive feeling in the body . . . the feeling that follows a run or workout is often described as “euphoric.”

The end result is that your mood, levels of energy, ability to focus and your sleep-wake cycle are all positively affected.

5. Start Feeling Good Again With Cryotherapy for Back Pain

Using cryotherapy to relieve your back pain may also help to reduce both anxiety and depression. Studies of those suffering from chronic pain show a correlation between physical pain and mental health issues like anxiety and depression that so frequently arise for those in constant pain.

While cryotherapy's physiological affect on mental health has not been studied, it stands to reason that relieving physical pain has the potential to also help you start feeling better about life again.

The Cold Is Worth It

You would think that a therapy his proven and effective over a braod range of health issues would be costly in time and money, but it's not.

For merely three minutes of cold exposure at a price range similar to chiropractic treatments, you owe yourslef to see how your body responds. With all the ways you stand to benefit--eliminated pain and inflammation, accelerated recovery frrom workouts, injury and surgery, increased caloric bruna and enhanced sleep quality--can you really afford not to try it?

If you are ready to experience all that cryotherapy has to offer, then our experts are ready to assist you. Please contact us to book an appointment, we are ready to help you start your journey into a pain-free life through the use of cryotherapy.

The Benefits of Cryotherapy for Back Pain