It’s no secret that Park City is home to world-class athletes as well as weekend warriors. While you may not be a professional athlete, you can recover like one at Stone Cold Cryotherapy in Kimball Junction. If you are looking for that extra edge, whole-body cryotherapy might be just the thing for you to step up your game.
Whether you are recovering from an injury, looking for more energy and endurance to keep up or decrease muscle soreness from pushing it a little too hard; you can benefit from cryotherapy. Miriah Johnson, a Freestyle Aerial Skier with the Park City Ski and Snowboard Club, has been using the therapy to bounce back from a torn ACL. After surgery and nearly a year of physical therapy Miriah still wasn’t at her pre-injury training levels. Finding it difficult to recover aft er training she followed a friend’s recommendation and added regular cryotherapy sessions to her training schedule; within a couple weeks she was already noticing a difference in recovery time and her overall strength and endurance on the ramps.
The whole-body cryotherapy experience involves lowering the body’s surface temperature for a period of 2-3 minutes via the use of Nitrogen gas that surrounds the body in average temperatures of -250 degrees. Th e body is tricked into producing a fight or flight response.
The body then activates all of its natural healing endorphins for further protection.
Cryotherapy, or “cold therapy,” started in Japan in 1978; it didn’t make its way to the United States until this decade. Th e Dallas Mavericks made it popular by calling cryotherapy their “secret weapon” and then going on to win 2011 NBA Championships. The USSA’s Center of Excellence state-of-the-art facility designed to serve Olympic skier and snowboarder athletes with world-class facilities has a cryotherapy machine for their recovery and rehabilitation.
Many well-known athletes use whole-body cryotherapy to enhance their careers. With multiple Utah locations, Stone Cold Cryotherapy, even services Weber State Athletic Department to help keep those athletes at the top of their game and give them a competitive advantage. At the NFL exhibition day, all of the athletes chose to use cryotherapy to get them in tip-top shape.
If you want to give it a try, visit Stone Cold Cryotherapy in Kimball Junction and look for their off er in the Park City Best Deals Coupon Book.
