Luka Jurkovic, General Manager of Revive Cryotherapy (L) feeds a horse while it undergoes a Cryotherapy session, which surrounds its body in cold nitrogen mist, at the Zabeel Racing Stables in Dubai, UAE August 18, 2019. REUTERS/Satish Kumar
DUBAI (Reuters) - In the searing summer heat of Dubai, some of the world's top racehorses are being swathed in freezing nitrogen mist to boost their performance.
Cryotherapy, which surrounds the body in a mist as cold as -140°C, has been used for decades on athletes to aid recovery and in medicine. A Dubai-based company, Revive Cryotherapy, says it is now offering the first whole body cryotherapy chamber for horses.
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