Cryotherapy - Ice Age

 A technique of immersion on ice is the new on the MMA world.

 

When MMA exploded to the world with Royce Gracie, on 1993, the sport was treated like an amateur thing. After Royce proved the efficiency of Jiu-Jitsu over the other arts, athletes around the world started to practice the soft-art. The next phase was to make to physical preparation better. Nowadays the level is so high that any detail can make the difference on combat’s time. With that, a lot of kinds of training appear, as Kattle Bell, the training with Snorkel and the hyperbaric camera. But nothings gets so much attention as Critotherapy, used to treat and recover the muscles of the MMA athletes. To know a little bit more of this news, TATAME walk around to findo ut the benefits and the contraindications of this method.

 

Translated in a superficial way, Critotherapy is like a “therapy by cold”. That means any kind of use of ice or cold applications with therapeutically objectives can be considered Critotherapy. It’s an old method, but not very used. The “therapy by cold” is a method with many benefits for high performance athletes, especially MMA. Ice was always use as a local anesthetic, helping to diminish the edema and inflammation caused by some hit, but now it’s been very used to recovered the muscles after the train. It’s usual to see the athletes in a bathtub with water and ice rocks, in temperatures between 41°F and 50°F, searching for this fast recovery to the next train.