The application of cold to an injured and/or painful; area is hardly a new therapeutic concept.  The Greek physician Hippocrates wrote about the use of cold therapy to control pain and swelling in the 14th century BC The roman physician Galen described the use of cold compresses for analgesia following soft tissue injuries in the 1st century A.D.  During the Middle Ages, ice was used for preparative anaesthesia.

Cold therapy in the form of ice has been used extensively in the athletic training environment for the treatment of sports injuries for many years.

It is believed that cold reduces the inflammatory response after soft tissue injuries by reducing pain and post-injury edema.  Cold reduces inflammation by inhibiting histamine, neutrophil activation, collagenase activity and synovial leukocytes.

Cold Water Hydrotherapy

No other spa in the world can make this claim

• The Spa is built for a long working life to the highest specifications by Australian fiberglass manufactures. Designed like a small horse trailer, the Spa takes up little room and has a self contained water storage capacity of 2,000 litres.
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• The horse is simply walked into the centre chamber of the spa unit, doors closed at each end, and the centre chamber then commences filling with water , then the air jets commence the therapeutic massage effect and treatment for the horse.
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• This spa has been comprehensively researched and trialed over a period of 5 years. In that time, the unit has been transformed from early stages "Mach 1, which was difficult to operate" to the streamlined, efficient and easy to operate "Mach 6". This exciting updated model, designed with a relaxing calming color, has now just been released for exporting world wide. The use of which can be taught in the first hands on demonstration.