article_snippet.sent: Sportsmen will go to extreme lengths to mend Sportsmen battered bodies ahead of the next challenge, and that includes inserting multiple needles into Sportsmen necks.
article_snippet.sent: May. The treatment known as kriotherapy (or cryotherapy) involves exposing the body to freezing temperatures of -200C for between 1-3minutes  to assist muscle recovery as well as decrease inflammation and soreness after a training session.
article_snippet.sent: Kriotherapy has also been used by the Wales rugby union team as well as Tottenham players including Andros Townsend, Christian Eriksen and Jan Vertonghen - while Real Madrid superstar has had Kriotherapy own 'ice chamber' installed at home.
article_snippet.sent: Head of sports science at Manchester City (and formerly with Spurs), Dr Sam Erith, has said: 'Kriotherapy means you can train more, to get fitter more quickly.
article_snippet.sent: With the players who have been rehabilitating, the players who have been rehabilitating've been training three times a day.'
article_snippet.sent: Andros Townsend, Kyle Walker, Christian Eriksen and Jan Vertonghen prepare to enter an ice chamber .
article_snippet.sent: Robin van Persie is one of several Premier League players who has used the left field method after Robin van Persie attempted to speed up Robin van Persie from an ankle injury picked up during international duty in 2009. '
article_snippet.sent: It cannot hurt and, if It helps, It helps,' Robin van Persie said ahead of the treatment.
article_snippet.sent: Manchester City players Pablo Zabaleta, Vincent Kompany and Nigel de Jong were reportedly so impressed by the treatment that Manchester City players Pablo Zabaleta, Vincent Kompany and Nigel de Jong asked for Kovacevic to join the club's medical staff, an offer which ultimately refused.