Rare diseases, rehabilitation expert: ‘Rest and cryotherapy to relieve haemophilic joints’

“If a joint is inflamed and painful, two solutions” for patients with haemophilia “can be rest and cryotherapy, which reduce the flow of blood to the structures and promote local vasoconstriction, which is useful for containing pain” . It is one of the advice of Antonio Frizziero, specialist in physical and rehabilitative medicine, associate professor at the University of Parma, during the online meeting ‘The role of rehabilitation medicine in haemophilia: prevention and treatment’, promoted by Aves Odv – Hemophilic and similarmophilic voluntary association of Parma, as part of the ‘Articoliamo’ tour, a campaign supported by Sobi with the patronage of FedEmo. “It can also help to lift the limb, if it is the lower ones – added the expert – and unload it with aids such as crutches or others, to free the joint from the load it cannot bear”.