Key Takeaways:
- Effective recovery often depends on a system’s tools and accessories, specifically, their fit and coverage.
- Aquilo’s cryotherapy accessories allow you to customize your control unit for targeted sessions.
- Cold compression leg recovery sleeves provide total coverage to help flush metabolic waste.
- Ice compression wraps allow you to target smaller areas, such as the ankle or shoulder, with cryocompression therapy.
When most athletes think of passive recovery systems, they think of ice baths, cryo chambers, and even saunas. Every tool is large-scale, but even if they're considering smaller ice packs, the tools are singular in their capabilities.
Aquilo Sports introduced a new type of recovery system, powered by individual control units: the CT1000 or CCT1500. You can look at this recovery system like a high-performance car. The control units are like the engine; it's where all the power comes from. It's where you can power the drive and tune its performance.
But the real beauty comes from the cryotherapy accessories, the attachments. Think of these like the car tires; one size does not fit all. Different sports and different days require different approaches. Aquilo’s control units let you swap out these accessories to get the most out of your recovery tool and practice.
With our products, you can customize your passive recovery. You can tailor the treatment to your specific sport or needs, and you get to do all this with an FDA-cleared system.
Full Limb Coverage With Cold Compression Leg Recovery Sleeves
The flagship attachments, the accessories central to the CT1000 and CCT1500 systems, are the cold compression leg recovery sleeves, sometimes called cryo boots by our athletes. Unlike ice packs, these cover the entire limb from the hip down to the foot.
They incorporate a compression system with multiple chambers, each inflating in a pattern to provide sequential, intermittent, and pneumatic compression. The pattern depends on user input. All of this is completely customizable on the unit’s control panel. This active compression, as we like to call it, creates a milking action or a massage-like action from the foot up through the hip. The level of pressure and speed of the inflation are also customizable.
We didn't include this feature just for comfort, though it is relaxing. We did it for a purpose. You see, the pressure, the patterned pressure, helps increase blood flow to the limb and force out metabolic waste products. This is essential to combating the more severe inflammation or inflammatory effects post-exercise.
Among all our cryotherapy accessories, the full-leg recovery sleeves are the most popular, especially among runners and cyclists. That doesn't mean that you have to be a runner or a cyclist. We've had athletes from every background (football, basketball, baseball, etc.) use these tools to address the sluggish or dead-leg effect that is so common after intense workouts.
Targeted Relief With Ice Compression Wraps
As we developed our tools, we wanted to reach athletes who had more specific use cases, those that didn't need a full leg sleeve. We wanted to shift the focus to spot treatment, allowing athletes to treat their knees, ankles, or shoulders, and we did so by creating dual-purpose ice compression wraps.
Our dual-purpose wraps include ankle-and-shoulder, knee-and-elbow, and arm-and-leg models. What these tools allow you to do is concentrate the thermal energy and pressure from the control units onto a smaller, more targeted surface area. This allows us to reduce those inflammatory markers, as we do with the leg sleeves, but with more accurate cooling and compression.
Unlike the full sleeves, these cryotherapy accessories are ideal for acute issues or spot treatments. For example, when you take a hit in a game, like when you're knocked down on your hip. You might not need the full sleeve in this situation. A targeted wrap offers a better option, especially where overuse issues are common.
Cold Therapy Bags for Recovery on the Go
Whichever control unit or cryotherapy accessories you choose, they won't do you much good if you have to leave them at home. That's the beauty of the Aquilo system: it's portable. Still, we wanted to improve its portability to make it more manageable. After all, carrying around several wraps or sleeves, hoses, and the control unit is cumbersome.
That's why we created cold therapy bags, specifically our cryotherapy unit carrying case and our garment bag. The carrying case has custom compartments for the control unit, its power supply, hoses, and one or two drained wraps. The garment bag is where you carry all your other essential ice compression wraps. On your trip, consider your leg recovery sleeves, your shoulder wrap, and your elbow wrap. All of these will fit in the garment bag. The bags just make traveling so much easier, and when traveling is easier, it's easier to be more consistent with your recovery process.
Beyond simplifying the traveling experience, the bags also act as a protective layer for the cryotherapy accessories and unit. They help keep dirt, dust, and debris off the machine and the tools. They also provide a layer of protection from minor bumps or nicks. Essentially, it all helps ensure your machine lasts longer while you're on the road.
Customizing Your Recovery Ecosystem
The beauty of the Aquilo system is its modularity. You can swap out a leg sleeve for a shoulder wrap in seconds. You don't have to jump from one machine to another. It's all unified; it's all one customizable piece of equipment. And it's what makes our cryotherapy accessories unique in the market: you can treat the whole body, not just one area, and you don't have to expose the whole body to frigid temperatures.
Having the right gear on the road, and in organized cold therapy bags, makes all the difference, especially when it comes to maintaining your recovery. Your recovery tools and accessories don’t have to be large-scale, stationary objects. With Aquilo, they're compact and portable, allowing targeted relief. If you're interested in exploring our full range of cryotherapy products and bundles, please contact us today.
