The authors present the first information on the introduction of new rehabilitation and health resort methods in the Czech Repubiic. The whole-body cold therapy (whole-body cryotherapy) was introduced for the first time in Japan in the seventies of the last century and appeared in Europe in 1985. In the Czech Republic the therapy was offered to patients - clients of the Beskydy Rehabilitation Cancer in Čeladná for the first time in August 2004. The authors name the main indications for application of the new method, describe the course of the procedure, safety measures, and evaluate relative and absolute contraindications and untoward effects. In conclusion, the authors inform about the beginning of a longitudinal study, which will be aimed to evaluating efficiency of the method in view of individual diagnoses and conditions, established as indications for the whole-body cold therapy.

        Key words: all-body cold therapy, cryotherapy, proceduře, liquid air, polarium