The potential of cryotherapy and Dupuytren’s
Myofibroblasts are part of the normal tissue repair response to almost all injuries: cut, crush, burn, chemical injury, infectious gangrene, and others – with one exception: freeze injury. Freeze burns don’t contract, possibly because only in freeze injury, the original collagen matrix scaffold is preserved, which may inhibit myofibroblast formation: https://www.dupuytrens.org/DupPDFs/1984_Ehrlich.pdf. This makes cryotherapy a […]
