Back Pain Solutions
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Probably the most sought after answer is to the question of whether to use ice or heat for relief of an aching neck or back.
Generally speaking, ice massage is most helpful during the first 24-36 hours following an injury to the back muscles. After that, heat therapy is probably more beneficial to the healing process. For some people, alternating heat therapy with cold application such as ice massage therapy provides the most pain relief. Many people will use a heat application prior to exercise and an ice massage following to tone down any resulting inflammation.
There are many types of ice packs available on the market today to use in ice massage therapy but quite frankly, if money is an issue, a plastic bag filled with ice cubes and wrapped in a towel will provide the same end result.
Unlike the simple ice therapy, there are a few main choices of heat therapy...moist heat, dry heat and Far Infrared heat. Moist heat is simply heat from a warm bath, a hot tub or the like. Dry heat is heat from a conventional heating pad. Far infrared heat uses Far Infrared Radiation (FIR) - a soothing, deep-warming radiant energy we experience every day in the form of heat like sunlight, a fire or a warm sidewalk.
FIR waves penetrate your skin and muscles all the way to the bone with nothing more invasive than soothing heat where it safely and gently warms deep tissues and increases the blood supply to the affected area. This in turn reduces inflammation, relieves pain and accelerates the removal of toxic waste products from the muscle fibers.
Healing Heat is a portable FIR therapy system that puts your pain to rest safely, quickly and naturally. In fact, it's the most powerful pain relief available without a prescription. The infrared heat from this healing pad has been clinically proven to penetrate the skin as deep as 3 inches compared to the 2-3mm of other pads. This is why FIR heat is so completely different from conventional heat. And why FIR's energy is able to reach deep into your body, zero in your pain, and speed natural healing.
CLICK HERE to learn more about the Healing Heat portable FIR therapy system and how it can help to provide fast pain relief... |
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