Sports Injury treatment

Many of us have suffered from injuries during and after affects of sporting activities and as a weekend warrior around the garden.
The question always asked is what form of treatment should I use for these injuries, should I use hot or cold.
here are a few tips on how you should apply these treatments.
Do you know when to use ice and when to use heat on a sports injury? Most people know to apply ice to an acute injury, like a sprained ankle, but aren't so sure when to use heat. The following guidelines will help you sort it out.

Cold Therapy 

Cold therapy with a Warm Buddy heat pack taken from the freezer is the best immediate treatment for acute injuries because it reduces swelling and pain.

Heat Therapy

Heat is generally used for chronic injuries or injuries that have no inflammation or swelling. Sore, stiff, nagging muscle or joint pain is ideal for the use of heat therapy. Athletes with chronic pain or injuries may use heat therapy before exercise to increase the elasticity of joint connective tissues and to stimulate blood flow. Heat can also help relax tight muscles or muscle spasms.
Warm Buddy have been making therapeutic products since 1996 that are approved medical devices for the relief of pain and stress.
Please let us know if you have any questions related to this article.

How to apply heat therapy

The most effective heat therapy products are Warm Buddy therapeutic heat packs and wraps that can maintain their heat at the proper temperature. “Warm” is the proper temperature. Patients should not have their heat source be hot to the point of burning the skin. The desired effect is for the heat to penetrate down into the muscles. Simply increasing the temperature of the skin will do little to decrease discomfort.

Heat Therapy

Sports Therapy wrap heat wrap

In many instances, the longer the heat is applied, the better. The duration that one needs to apply the heat, though, is based on the type of and/or magnitude of the injury. For very minor back tension, short amounts of heat therapy may be sufficient (such as 15 to 20 minutes). For more intense injuries, longer sessions of heat may be more beneficial (such as 30 minutes to 2 hours, or more) you will have to reheat the Warm Buddy heat pack a few times during this longer period of treatment.
For sports injuries you may want to try our sports therapy wrap, as with all our products they can be used hot or cold, for new injuries with bruising use a cold pack and for aches and pains use a warm pack.

New products coming in a few days

Small Moosey and Little Buddy Moosey

Coming in a few days time our new warm up animals.Plus the return of the Large Wooly.
Once in stock we will publish them to our warm Buddy page, keep coming back to check

Little Buddy Moosey and Small Moosey

Large Wooly

Heating pad can be good and bad for you

How a heating pad can be good and bad for you.

Since 2000 we have been selling heating pads for aching sore muscles, while these are excellent for this purpose, we also find individuals in sports and other activities that use them for warming muscles and then with their warm supple muscle proceed to stretch their muscles past their normal comfort points thus creating more damage to their muscles.

Sports Therapy Wrap

It is important to have muscle that are warm prior to any strenuous exercise but just be careful not to over extend your normal stretch points and you and your muscles will last a lifetime.
Here is a link to our heating pads. We have a variety to meet all your needs.

Why Warm Buddy heat packs are the best for you

 Warm Buddy heating Pads

We are often asked why Warm Buddy products are superior than other heat products, below is  a chart that explains why. 

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Why Warm Buddy heat packs & heat wraps are superior for pain & stress relief
Drug Free(dom)	Warm Buddy	Gel Packs	Flax Seed	Hot water bottle	Electric heat pad	Oat grain
Heat Retention	Best	Too hot	Poor	Poor	Good	Poor
After smell	None	None	yes	None	None	yes
Moist heat	yes	None	None	None	None	None
Scalding	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Electro magnetic field (EMF)	No	No	No	No	yes	No
Washable	yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
Caution!	None	Stiff & hard to mould to body	Fire hazard if over heated	Leaking	Over heating	Can overheat and catch fire
*Electric blankets create a magnetic field that penetrates about 6-7 inches into the body. Thus it is not surprising that an epidemiological study has linked electric blankets with miscarriages and childhood leukemia...more info
* Moist heat is used primarily for old and chronic injuries. It helps to loosen and relax sore muscles, tendons and ligaments, as well as increase blood flow to bring more red blood cells to the injury to facilitate healing.

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.

Keeping warm in this frigid weather

Warm Buddy have been making heat pack and warm up animals for years, while they are mainly used for muscle aches and pains, in this frigid weather they are great for keeping warm.

heat packs and heat warps

 Keep warm this winter

Just pop the heat pack in the microwave for the prescribed time and it will warm you up fast, this is also an ideal way of keeping your hydro bills lower as 3 minutes in the microwave will warm you for an hour or more, whilst keeping warm the heat packs will keep stress levels down and reduce any aches and pains you may have.
We have many different types of heat packs and warm up animals, they can all be seen here.
Here's to a warmer winter, with a warm Buddy.