Patients visiting some of UK’s most progressive cosmetic surgery clinics now have the advantage of a new revolutionary healing therapy called Hilotherapy. Adaptable cuffs are used and cool water is circulated through it which in turn helps in reducing the pain.

Ice is used often to treat swelling but using extreme cold temperatures nerve and tissue damage can be caused.
 
The Hilotherapy system allows the cuffs to be set to the required degree, hence controlling the temperature applied to the wounded area.
 
Hilotech director, Stuart Watkins, described the therapy as “an advanced pain management solution proven to dramatically reduce swelling, pain and bruising.”
 
He further claimed: “Hilotherapy is set to revolutionise medicinal therapy and can be applicable to a number of fields - it is currently widely used in sports injury, plastic surgery, maxillofacial and orthopaedic surgery, but can be used for a number of other applications.”
 
Olympian Jade Johnson is one well known sportswoman who recently injured herself in BBC One show ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
 
Hilotherapy can be used in the recovery room itself for the purpose of post-traumatic use and to relieve chronic pain caused by conditions like arthritis and migraine.

(Additional reporting by Kavita Toor) (Image Source: hilotherapy.co.uk)