Applications

With ShockMaster ICE-CT Infrared (IR) new standards are being set in the cryotherapy treatment. The ShockMaster ICE-CT cools down surrounding air but is on top of that the first cryotherapy device to do this with a infrared (bio-feedback) system, thereby ensuring a constant temperature on the treated area.

An intelligent hand piece not only measures the temperature on the treated area, but adjusts the airflow automatically in accordance with the temperature reached on the skin. This enables the therapist to setup his treatment very easily; the therapist situates the patient in a comfortable position, positions the treatment head on the required area, fixes the temperature and from then on the ShockMaster ICE CT will automatically adept its airflow in order to reach it continuously.

Independently from the technology and or the physic principle used, Cryotherapy should always be carried out in two stages:

The first stage is the creation of the thermal shock, which means lowering the skin temperature as quick as possible. It is important that this shock appears quickly in order to avoid any adaptation and installation of mechanisms of defense. Ideally, it must appear in less than 3 minutes and if one wants to obtain “neuro-reflexes” reaction, it must appear in less than 1 minute.

The second stage is the stabilization of the temperature. It is used for creating and amplifying the “Hunting reaction” but also cooling the muscular tissue (which is more in-depth and having a certain “mass”) in order to use it like “accumulator” and thus getting a longer effect, even after the end of the treatment. The problem here will be to stabilize the skin temperature in a way to obtain the effects of the cryotherapy without having the risks of tissue damage. The ideal temperature is 12° C.