Cool Therapy Reduces Brain Injury in Infants
I’ve written in past posts about how cold therapy may prevent brain damage that can occur as a result of oxygen depravation at birth. Science Daily reports on a further study from Yale University which states “We speculate that this therapy lowers the brain temperature as well as body temperature and slows down the injury process caused by birth asphyxia, which results in loss of oxygen to the brain,” said Yale researcher Richard A. Ehrenkranz, M.D., professor of pediatric neonatology and obstetrics and gynecology at Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital. “Less injury means a better outcome and fewer cases of cerebral palsy and other complications.” Read more here.