Cryotherapy for sports 38 injury recovery sports recovery isnt new people have always found ways of allowing their bodies to recover after taking to the field or after engaging in grueling exercises what has changed is the professionalism of sport and the techniques used in recovery cryotherapy at its most basic works on the same principle as an icepack on a sore knee just like the icepack helps relieve the pain on a bump cryotherapy is used to relieve symptoms in people suffering f