Advances of cryotherapy in the treatment of pain: a review

Cryotherapy refers to the use of drugs or physical methods to reduce the local temperature, so as to achieve the purpose of treating pain. At present, the cryotherapy methods for pain management are more and more diversified, including ice therapy, liquid nitrogen cryotherapy, compression cryotherapy, hyperbaric gaseous cryotherapy, hypothermal shock, etc. The efficacy of different methods in the treatment of pain is summarized in this paper. Key words: Pain; Cryotherapy, induced; Review literature as topic