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2. Should You Use Ice or Heat for Your Back Pain? - AOL

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   Experts explain whether ice or heat for back pain will lead to better relief, and the best time to use each. ... “Heat can help reduce pain thresholds, reduce muscle spasms, help with chronic ...

3. When to Use Heat—and When to Use Ice—for Sore Muscles, Back ...

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4. The 11 best muscle pain relief creams, according to pain ...

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   Rub A535 Muscle and Joint Heat Cream is the best extra-strength muscle pain relief cream because of its fast-acting and deep-penetrating formula. ... ice and strong winds make for dangerous ...

5. Cold compression therapy - Wikipedia

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   Cold compression therapy, also known as hilotherapy, combines two of the principles of rest, ice, compression, elevation to reduce pain and swelling from a sports or activity injury to soft tissues and is recommended by orthopedic surgeons following surgery. The therapy is especially useful for sprains, strains, pulled muscles and pulled ligaments.

6. Heat therapy - Wikipedia

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   Heat creates higher tissue temperatures, which produces vasodilation that increases the supply of oxygen and nutrients and the elimination of carbon dioxide and metabolic waste. [12] Heat therapy is useful for muscle spasms, myalgia, fibromyalgia, contracture, bursitis. [12] Moist heat can be used on abscesses to help drain the abscess faster. [13]

7. RICE (medicine) - Wikipedia

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   Ice has been used for injuries since at least the 1960s, in a case where a 12-year-old boy needed to have a limb reattached. The limb was preserved before surgery by using ice. As news of the successful operation spread, the use of ice to treat acute injuries became common. [4] The mnemonic was introduced by Dr. Gabe Mirkin in 1978. [5]

8. Cold plunge or a hot bath? New study suggests which has more ...

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   Ice baths after exercise are hot, especially among influencers. But a new small study suggests that recreational athletes perform better if they soak in a hot tub rather than a frigid one ...

9. Heating pad - Wikipedia

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   increasing the flexibility (and decreasing painful stiffness) of soft tissues surrounding the injured area, including muscles and connective tissue. As many heating pads are portable, heat may be applied as needed at home, at work, or while travelling. Some physicians recommend alternating heat and ice for pain relief.