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A Summary of Cryotherapy Use
prone to develop local fiber stress.
The vessel diameter, as mentioned before, will first
by Dr. Philippe Benoit, DVM, MS, DACVSMR
Like a lot of horse people, you might have done vasoconstrict, which will promote a local anti-edematous
Cryotherapy on your horse over the years without effect and prevent hematomas from developing in a
knowing all of its benefits. Cooling down the distal fresh trauma. Then secondary vessels will experience a
limb (lower limb) of the horse is a treatment method vasodilation effect, which will enable drainage of other
that began a few centuries ago when horsemen would local inflammatory mediators (especially histamine and
put their horse’s feet in cold water in a stream or a river lactic acid). Cryotherapy causes this phase of dilation 50
to quiet down local inflammation. times faster than ice, for that reason, a lot of doct