B1 – Intermediate
When are bodies need to heal, we find the best therapy. What do you think about a therapy wherein they put you inside a machine to freeze your whole body for a few minutes?
Listen to this audio and read the transcript about cryotherapy.
https://www.newsinlevels.com/products/cryotherapy-level-2/
Discussion Questions:
- Share your opinion about this therapy.
- What are the good and bad things about this kind of therapy?
- Would you be interested to try it? Why or why not?
- What other therapies similar to cryotherapy do you know of?
- What other therapies similar to cryotherapy have you tried? Talk about its effects on you.
- What other therapies similar to cryotherapy are you interested to try and why?
8 replies on “Cryotherapy”
1.What are the good and bad things about this kind of therapy?
In my opninion this therapy can give you a inflammation relief but I think that subject your body to extreme conditions can’t be good
2.Would you be interested to try it? Why or why not?
I would like trying it for some seconds only to know the experience
3.What other therapies similar to cryotherapy do you know of?
Cold water baths , ice baths, hyperbaric chamber, oxygen chamber
4.What other therapies similar to cryotherapy have you tried? Talk about its effects on you.
I have tried cold water baths and I can’t spent to much time inside
5.What other therapies similar to cryotherapy are you interested to try and why?
I would like testing oxigen chambers becuase you can feel plenty of energy
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1.As far as I’m concerned, this type of treatment could become dangerous if its use is not supervised. The more you feel great after doing it, the more you use it and your body is exposed to extremely low temperatures more frequently.
2.That actives metabolism, gives you energy, it could improve your sleep. IT can cause tissue damage and it’s not recommended for people that have a history of stroke high blood pressure, infecctions, pregnancy or claustrophobia.
3. I wouldn’t be interested in try it. I don’t rely on treatments that activates your body because your body thinks its going to die.
4.There’s a treatment that freeze some fat areas of your body in order to loose that fat. But then you can get bruises in that area
5.I have never tried that kind of therapies on me.
6.I am not interested in that kind of therapies, I prefer draining massages that produce physical stimulus than chemical therapies
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1. Share your opinion about this therapy.
I’ve never heard about it, I find it strange
1. What are the good and bad things about this kind of therapy?
The good things are that it makes you feel relaxed and full of energy, and that you only need to spend 3 minutes. The bad things are that I do not know if it has been scientifically demonstrared that it works and that it is very expensive
1. Would you be interested to try it? Why or why not?
I only would be interested if a physician recommended it to me
1. What other therapies similar to cryotherapy do you know of?
I do not know therapies similar to cryotherapy
1. What other therapies similar to cryotherapy have you tried? Talk about its effects on you.
I have not tried any therapy similar to cryotherapy
1. What other therapies similar to cryotherapy are you interested to try and why?
I’m not interested to try any therapy similar to cryotherapy
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1/ Some studies suggest that cryotherapy may offer the benefits as Weight Loss, Reduced inflammation, for pain management, Preventing dementia etc.
2/ Good things. Weight Loss, Reduced inflammation, Preventing dementia
Bad things Exposure to extreme cold can cause tissue damage and nerve damage, which can lead to serious complications
3/ At the moment I am not interested in trying cryotherapy. But maybe in the future yes.
4/ Other therapies similar to cryotherapy I know of Massage therapy / hyperbaric oxygen/ Acupuncture;
5/ I have not tried another similar therapy.
6/ I am interested to try the acupuncture, hyperbaric oxygen… I would like to probe in order to confirm if the results are good or not.
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