Orthopedics focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of the musculoskeletal system. This system comprises muscles, bones, joints, ligaments, and tendons. Treatment also includes the rehabilitation of injuries, which helps you regain movement, strength, range of motion, and flexibility following an injury or surgery, and the formation of strategies to prevent injury or to keep chronic conditions, such as arthritis, from worsening.

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Cryotherapy is commonly used postoperatively for both arthroscopic and orthopedic procedures to decrease analgesic requirements and blood loss, as well as to increase the range of motion.

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It is also associated with an analgesic effect caused by microvasculature alterations that decrease the production of inflammatory mediators, decrease local edema, disrupt the overall inflammatory response, and reduce nerve conduction velocity.