Cryotherapy is all the rage with celebrities and athletes these days. Floyd Mayweather and Christina Aguilera are huge fans of the process, and several other big names have aligned themselves therein. The FDA has yet to approve the process, but that hasn’t stopped the trend. The basic idea is that you freeze your tush off in insanely cold temperatures for a few minutes, and your body believes you’re gonna die, so it rejuvenates tissue and makes you look young and skinny. Some people swear by it, but no thanks on this end.
In high-end spas and salons, the cryotherapy process is supervised by trained staff members, who watch through a glass window as the client freezes at -110°C for up to three minutes, maximum. The client is “encouraged to walk around the room and dance” to promote blood flow. It sounds miserable, and in one woman’s case, the process was deadly.
At the Rejuvenice salon in Henderson, Nevada, a woman died last week in a freak cryotherapy accident. The salon manager, Chelsea Ake, closed up shop by herself, but when she entered the machine, it “apparently did not turn off.” She was found the next morning by employees, and OSHA authorities estimated that she was trapped for over 10 hours. Officially, the ruling is “operator error,” and police say Ake could have suffocated to death after a number of minutes. A further update says Ake was found “frozen in solid ice,” which is a horrifying prospect.
So far, Rejuvenice has not commented upon Ake’s untimely death.
(Via News 3 Las Vegas)