Polar Care: a cold therapy device used as a cooling system to reduce swelling and decrease pain to patients who had just undergone surgery.
This device can be use easily. A polar care has a bucket full of ice and water anf a hose that has a motor on the other end to suck and circulate fluid to the cooling pad, where the pad is applied to body of the patient.
Setup is pretty simple and easy to use. I have seen lots of patients who use it after surgery and it helped them alot in terms of pain management and decreasig swelling.
The principle behind its use to patients is that by application of cold matter decreases in size so as the blood vessels which in turn decreases bleeding and in inflammation it decreases swelling, as well decrease pain perception since cold can divert attention from sensation of pain as well cold decreases release of chemical mediators for pain, but prolonged treatment of cold also poise danger to patients like hypothermia, ischemia, and pain.
Polar Care is helpful and efficient but if you don’t have it you can use the traditional Ice Pack and that will do.
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