The Mavs have a Cryotherapy machine. Why don't we?

[FrDrake]

How can the Celtics get some Cryotherapy?  I have no idea what it is but I imagine the Cs could use one!

Mavericks Credit Cryotherapy For Improved Postseason Recovery Time

During the playoffs Jason Kidd, Dirk Nowitzki, Jason Terry, Shawn Marion, Tyson Chandler and Brian Cardinal made regular visits to a Texas wellness facility to take part in whole body cryotherapy, standing in a silo that dropped to as low as minus-320 degrees Fahrenheit.

"It's not going to make you fly out of the room or jump like LeBron James," says Terry, "but the feeling you get when you step out of that machine is unbelievable. You feel completely rejuvenated."

"I can't take it quite as cold as some of the others," said Kidd, who split time defending James and Dwyane Wade during the Finals. "But it still worked."

"It gave us a tremendous edge, not only physically but psychologically," Terry says. "I don't know if it was a team-bonding thing, but it's something that came up every day. We'd plan on getting together and hitting it. It became a ritual."

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/214730/Mavericks_Credit_Cryotherapy_For_Improved_Postseason_Recovery_Time]

[Mike-Dub]

I read this article yesterday.  I think it is one of those tubes that professional athletes sleep in. 

Who knows maybe the C's do use them? 

[FrDrake]

I read this article yesterday.  I think it is one of those tubes that professional athletes sleep in. 

Who knows maybe the C's do use them? 

Danny!  Let's get us some cold athlete sleeping tubes!!

[Marcus13]

How do you know that we don't?

[Mike-Dub]

This is what they say about it on wikipedia...

Cryogenic chamber therapy
 
According to Costello et al. (2011) [1] a relatively new modality of cryotherapy, called whole body cryotherapy (WBC), is currently being offered by clinicians as an alternative to cold water immersion or ice packs. Administered through the use of a cryogenic chamber, WBC is a treatment whereby the patient is placed in a cryogenic chamber for a short duration (i.e. no more than three minutes, which is comparable to ice swimming), and if used properly, will not destroy tissue. Whole body cryotherapy originated in Japan in 1978. However, it was a group of Polish scientists who took the idea and made whole body cryotherapy the physical therapy it is today. The Olympic rehabilitation centre in Spala, Poland opened in May 2000 and has been used as a training and injury rehabilitation centre for many sporting bodies.
 
The chamber is cooled, typically with liquid nitrogen, to a temperature of −120 °C (−184 °F). The patient is protected from acute frostbite with socks, gloves and mouth and ear protection, but in addition to that, wears nothing but a bathing suit. The patient spends a few minutes in the chamber. During treatment the average skin temperature drops to 12 °C (54 °F), while the coldest skin temperature can be 5 °C (41 °F). The core body temperature remains unchanged during the treatment, however it may drop slightly afterwards. Therapy triggers the release of endorphines which induce analgesia (immediate pain relief).
 
Patients report that the experience is invigorating and improves a variety of conditions such as psychological stress, insomnia, rheumatism, muscle and joint pain, fibromyalgia, itching, and psoriasis. The immediate effect of skin cooling and analgesia lasts for 5 minutes, but the release of endorphines can have a lasting effect, where the pains and signs of inflammation as found in blood tests remain suppressed for weeks. The effects of extreme cold and endorphine release are scientifically studied. Curiously, some patients compare the feeling to sauna at 110 °C (230 °F).[citation needed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryotherapy

Idk about you, but I'd be afraid to go into something that cold.

[FrDrake]

How do you know that we don't?

I don't.  I'm just to having some fun during the NBA lockout when nothing is happening.  Work with me people!

[jdz101]

Maybe we could freeze KG until we had the technology to clone him? Then bring him out of cryo with the clones and win rings?

[mgent]

I thought they only had those in comic books and space ships.

[Bahku]

Are you sure they don't? I'd be surprised if they didn't at least have access to it if they so desired, (as I know there is more than one such facility in the Boston area). At this point it's an experimental therapy, and the results have met with mixed opinions. It can also be dangerous if not used under close observation by a physician. I think it's promising at this point, but time will tell, as with all such cutting edge treatments.

[LB3533]

Could this be training the body to withstand more harsh climates and conditions within a controlled and supervised forum.

I can see this as almost the opposite of Native American sweat lodges? (Without the visions and steam of course)