3 Therapeutic Treatments to Reduce Stress

Stress can affect every part of your life. It effects your emotional and mental well-being and can physically exhaust you. Stress can exacerbate pain, make it difficult to focus, and difficult to relax and sleep at night. CRYO850, we offer a variety of therapeutic treatments to help reduce and manage stress. From red light therapy to massages, you’re bound to find something that works for you. Here are a few therapeutic treatments to reduce stress:

Whole Body Cryotherapy

Stress is often exacerbated by pain and sometimes exacerbates pain in turn. It can be a vicious cycle. When you are in pain, your patience is shortened to handle other issues. When you are stressed, your body is tense and the site of pain is more likely to be inflamed. Whole body cryotherapy can potentially help with both issues. Cryotherapy uses extreme cold temperatures to elicit a vasoconstriction/vasodilation response to increase blood flow to the site of pain and reduce inflammation and pain symptoms. It also creates positive hormone responses, such as endorphins, which can help to give you the energy boost and stress reduction that you need.

Red Light Therapy

Red light therapy uses red and near infrared light to boost blood flow, cell regeneration, and oxygen throughout the body. All of the benefits of the sun without harmful UV rays. Red light therapy is often used to reduce pain and inflammation, but it has also been shown to improve patients’ mood and cognitive function, as well as reduce stress. Red light therapy has been used to treat major depressive disorders and provides wavelengths needed to combat seasonal affective disorder during the time of year when the sun is out the least.

Infrared Sauna

Sometimes when you are stressed, you want nothing more than a spa day to relax your body. At CRYO850, we offer the latest sauna technology. Rather than heating the air in the room, infrared saunas use infrared light to heat your body before heating the room. This process serves to detox your body of harmful overload such as lead and mercury. In the same way short bursts of cold can help to energize your body, heat therapy can relax the muscles and reduce pain by increasing blood circulation. It eases muscle soreness and relaxes the mind so that you can go about your day without a buildup of stress.

Taking time to decompress is imperative to keep stress from building and weighing you down. Self-care treatments are important to give yourself time to take a break, clear your head and relax your mind. Need help managing your stress? CRYO850 is happy to assist. Contact us today to learn more about our stress-reducing treatments and routines.

Pain Management: Does Red Light Therapy Work?

Different people respond to different pain management treatments, which is why CRYO850 offers more than just cryotherapy and massage. One treatment offered is whole body red light therapy. This treatment offers a combination of both red and nearly infrared light that penetrates the tissues offering all of the benefits of natural sunlight — without the risk of harmful UV rays.

But just how effective is it when it comes to pain management? Scientific studies prove it’s very effective. Here are some of the ways red light therapy can help with your pain management.

Increased Blood Flow

One of the most important elements to pain management is proper blood flow. Good circulation helps to ensure your body gets the nutrients and oxygen it needs to recover and manage sites of pain. This is one way that red light therapy can help boost your pain management. Red light therapy helps to boost cell regeneration which, in turn, increase healthy blood flow and restores your body as a whole.

Reduced Inflammation

Inflammation is the key source of chronic pain conditions. With chronic pain, activity results in inflammation which creates a bad flare up that can ruin your day. People who live with arthritis or fibromyalgia experience this as a constant part of life. By boosting blood circulation through your system and increasing the flow of oxygen and nutrients to your body, red light therapy helps to reduce inflammation and decrease pain.

Faster Wound Healing

Since red light therapy creates cellular rejuvenation, it expedites the body’s natural healing process and allows your body a faster recovery from injury. By stimulating blood circulation, your body receives the nutrients it needs to rest and recover. This is especially beneficial for people with active lifestyles such as athletes and dancers.

Improved Mood and Focus

If you live with pain, you know it often goes beyond just the physical. When you are struck with a bad flare, the pain can also impact your emotional state. It is hard to feel motivated to be productive or to do the activities you enjoy when you’re in pain. By helping to manage your pain, red light therapy also helps boost your emotional state. Cellular rejuvenation of the brain also improves mood, clears the mind and aids with focus. Red light therapy is currently being tested on Alzheimer’s patients as a means to stop and even reverse brain dysfunction associated with the disease.

CRYO850 is proud to offer safe, effective whole body red light therapy to our customers in need of better pain management. These are just some of the benefits. Others include clearer skin, skin damage recovery, increased testosterone in men, and restoration of ocular health against blue light. Contact us today to learn more or to sign up or come in the center to experience whole body red light therapy.

What is Red Light Therapy and How Can It Help Me?

If you’ve ever sought treatment for a skin condition or skin damage, you may have come across the idea of red light therapy, whether from naysayers or people who have received red light therapy and speak highly of it. But what is red light therapy exactly? How can it help treat damaged skin, and are the benefits to this treatment real? Let’s discuss what this type of treatment can do for you in today’s blog.

What Is Red Light Therapy?

Red light therapy uses low-level wavelengths of light along your skin to enhance cellular signaling and heal damaged skin. It’s based on the knowledge of the natural benefits of light, but hyperfocused to get results that you can see. The red light exposure stimulates the production of fibroblasts in your nervous system. These fibroblasts, in turn, begin the process to stimulate the production of collagen, repairing damage to your skin. It even strengthens your existing skin to protect it against damage in the future.

But red light therapy does more than repair damaged skin. Regular exposure to red light wavelengths boosts the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which gives your cells something of a jump start, resulting in increased energy. Here are some of the benefits you can experience through red light therapy:

Improved Skin Health

We’ve touched on this a bit already, but this is the main benefit of red light therapy. In addition to fibroblast production, it also increases circulation between the blood and tissue cells and works to protect skin cells to prevent future damage. Red light therapy is used for anything from burns to acne to anti-aging.

Improved Immune System

Because red light therapy can work to protect your cells and increase the production of ATP and fibroblast, it also helps to boost your immune system. We’ve discussed that regular red light therapy treatment will help protect your skin from damage in the future by increasing collagen. Red light therapy can also boost your immune system as a whole to protect you from a host of illnesses and conditions.

Muscle Recovery

Athletes recovering from injury will often turn to red light therapy to speed along muscle recovery and heal wounds so they can return to the game they love. Regular exposure to red light wavelengths can reduce inflammation, and by increasing blood flow, it’s easier for the muscles to repair themselves.

Reduced Joint Pain

Inflammation plagues the lives of those with arthritis, fibromyalgia, and other joint injuries. The reduced inflammation due to red light therapy can also help improve the quality of life to people with these conditions and more. With reduced inflammation, they’ll be more easily able to move around, thus reducing and managing their symptoms themselves.

These are just a few of the benefits you can enjoy from red light therapy, and red light therapy is just one of our many wellness treatments. Want to learn more about how red light therapy can help you? Contact CRYO850 today for more information or to schedule an appointment.

Feel Refreshed and Relaxed at Our Wellness Center

All too often, we carry stress from day to day until we no longer even register that we are stressed. Even when you don’t recognize that you are stressed, your body feels it. Stress overload can have a negative impact on your health. If you are living with an injury or chronic pain, added stress only makes matters worse. The new wellness center in Destin, CRYO850, is here to help. We offer a variety of methods to help you relax and face the day refreshed. Let stress roll off your shoulders and lessen the hold that pain can have on you. Here are a few ways we can help.

Bodywork and Massage

We often allow stress and exhaustion to build up over time. This stress overload causes muscles to become tense creating soreness and pain. One of the best method of addressing sore muscles is the application of pressure. At CRYO850, our professional licensed Massage Therapists are trained to identify the sources of pain and relax sore muscles with relaxation, sports or medical massage. Massage has also been shown to strengthen the body’s immune system and lower blood pressure.

Red Light Therapy

We all know about the soothing and healing benefits of natural light. Red Light Therapy is an extension of that concept. The study of how light affects the body is called Photobiomodulation. What makes the color red so special is that it can actually penetrate the tissue and heal the body from the cellular level. Red lights heal the skin at the topical level while near infrared lights trigger the body to produce ATP energy and assist with overall brain health. Red Light Therapy helps cell regeneration, boosts melatonin, and can even reduce joint pain and inflammation. It also aids in muscle recovery and healing wounds from an injury. The result of regular exposure is better skin, increased energy, and a better mental state. For men, the added bonus is naturally enhanced testosterone by as much as 33%.

Professional Coaching

Sometimes you need extra guidance to reach your health, wellness or fitness goals. That’s why CRYO850 offers professional coaching in a variety of niches. At CRYO850, we offer a number of additional expert resources to help you focus on your personal health, wellness and/or fitness goals. Our community consists of experts in the fields of nutrition counseling, personal training, sound healing, myofascial release, therapeutic stretching, and stress management.

To learn more about what you can find at our wellness center, check out our health and wellness pillar. Stop by our center at City Market Bayside in Destin or Contact CRYO 850 today to learn more about professional coaching.