Sports Injuries made better with heat packs

Sports Injuries are invariably caused by too much too soon, when muscle are cold and inflexible.
You need to warm up the muscles so they can stretch more easily.
our Sports Therapy Wrap can be used hot or cold.

Cold for swelling and Hot for old aches and pains

You must take care warming muscles that you don't over extend the limits of the muscles, as heat can give you a false sense of extension and you may take the stretch passed what you would normally use, thus injuring the muscle even more.

Use hot or cold

Sports Therapy wrap

Migraines and headache relief

Do you suffer from Migraines, I do and they are perpetuated by the weather and chocolates. I should have taken up meteorology as a career as I can tell when the weather is going to change to rain the day before it happens.

Migraine relief sleep mask

The way I take the edge of the migraine is using a Warm Buddy sleep mask, you can use these warm, cold or just natural. I prefer at room temperature, just slip the mask on and within 15 minutes the edge has been taken off the migraine.
I know ever ones migraine is different and each of us has our own way of dealing with it, but give these a try, my daughter also suffers from them and uses these as a first point of attack.
Good luck.

Relieving stress naturally

Just think,relieve stress naturally with no pills.
Warm Buddy have been making stress relieving products since 1996. We have been selling them and helping people relieve stress aches and pains since 2000
The most popular product is the Ultra-Shoulder wrap, this fits tailored to your neck and shoulders giving a warm moist heat that will penetrate those tight stressed muscles.
Use it at work, we have Worksafe BC that uses these for their staff when they are stressed out. here is a comment by their corporate ergonomist.

Stress relief at work

Stress relief shoulder wrap

Worksafe BC incorporated the use of our Ultra Shoulder wraps for their employees to use to relieve stress or tension at work.

• Emma Chritensen their corporate ergonomist found that individuals using the wraps had a more relaxed posture while working at their workstations, their shoulders were lower, not hunched up around the ears and productivity increased.

This all natural stress relief wrap penetrates deep into muscles to dissolve stress and soothe aches, moist heat therapy can even help diminish tension headaches.

All the Warm Buddy products can be used hot or cold depending on the therapy required.
Do you have a tough and stressful drive to work, just heat up the shoulder wrap and wear it while you drive and feel the tension just melt away.
All Warm Buddy products are approved medical devices by Health Canada for the relief of stress and muscle aches and pains.

Sports injuries and heat/Cold treatment

Cold Treatment

With any sprain, strain or bruise there is some bleeding into the underlying tissues. This may cause swelling, pain and delay healing. Cold treatment may be used in both the immediate treatment of soft tissue injuries and in later rehabilitation.

During immediate treatment, the aim is to limit the body's response to injury. Ice will:

• Reduce bleeding into the tissues.
• Prevent or reduce swelling.
• Reduce muscle spasm and pain.
• Reduce pain by numbing the area and by limiting the effects of swelling.

These effects all help to prevent the area from becoming stiff by reducing excess tissue fluid that gathers as a result of injury and inflammation.

In the later, or rehabilitation, phase of recovery the aims change to restoring normal function. At this stage the effects of ice can enhance other treatments such as exercise by reducing pain and muscle spasm. This then allows better movement. If you have to do exercises as part of your treatment it can be useful to do them with ice in place or immediately after it is removed when the area will still be a little numb. This reduces pain and makes movement around the injury more comfortable.

What packs should I use?

All Warm Buddy heat packs and heat wraps are designed to be used for hot or cold treatment.

I always have 2 packs in the freezer, when one warms up during treatment I always have the second as a back up.

Sports Therapy wrap

How long should cold packs be applied for?

Ideally, ice should be applied within 5-10 minutes of injury for 20-30 minutes. This can be repeated every 2-3 hours or so whilst you are awake for the next 24-48 hrs.

After the first 48 hours, when bleeding should have stopped, the aim of treatment changes from restricting bleeding and swelling to getting the tissues remobilised with exercise and stretching. Ice helps with pain relief and relaxation of muscle tissue.

Heat treatment

Do not use heat on a new injury (for example, soaking in a hot bath, using heat packs, hot water bottles, deep heat creams, etc). These will increase bleeding and make the problem worse.

When an injury is older than 48 hours, heat can be applied in the form of warm buddy heat packs. Heat causes the blood vessels to dilate (open wide) which brings more blood into the area. It also has a direct soothing effect and helps to relieve pain and spasm. If heat is applied to the skin it should not be hot, gentle warmth will suffice.

Again all Warm Buddy heat packs and wraps are ideal for the treatment of muscle pain and are approved medical devices for this purpose

Cold packs often gives better and longer-lasting effect on the circulation than heat provides. The painkilling properties of ice are also deeper and longer-lasting than heat.

Qualities:
Recent studies have found that heat wrap therapy proved to be more effective pain management for muscle pain than oral pain medications such as ibuprofen and acetaminophen...more info

Why use heat for pain relief..see here