Therapeutic cold, also know as cryotherapy, has the main effect of cooling the tissues. Cold application may use various techniques and duration of therapy, but it has the same bass physiological effects. The effects of cryotherapy are the following except:
Answer: 3
Cold therapy decreases muscle efficiency. In addition to analgesia, vasoconstriction and decreased local metabolism, reactive hyperemia, reduce swelling or edema, hemorrhage reduction, and reduced muscle spasm are also therapeutic effects of cryotherapy.
Analgesia: 痛覚脱失
vasoconstriction: 血管収縮
hyperemia: 充血
- Analgesia
- Vasoconstriction
- Increased muscle efficiency
- Decreased local metabolism
Answer: 3
Cold therapy decreases muscle efficiency. In addition to analgesia, vasoconstriction and decreased local metabolism, reactive hyperemia, reduce swelling or edema, hemorrhage reduction, and reduced muscle spasm are also therapeutic effects of cryotherapy.
Analgesia: 痛覚脱失
vasoconstriction: 血管収縮
hyperemia: 充血