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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. Muscle cramps are a pain. These expert-approved tips ... - AOL

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   Massaging and applying heat or ice to the site of the cramp can help provide fast relief, Benjamin recommends. OTC pain medications, such as acetaminophen, ibuprofen or naproxen, may also help ...

4. This is why your back hurts—and how to relieve the pain - AOL

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   How to treat back pain at home You can initially treat most chronic back pain at home, with low-impact exercises such as swimming, gentle stretching or walking, combined with ice or heat, and over ...

5. Back pain - Wikipedia

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   Heat therapy is useful for back spasms or other conditions. A review concluded that heat therapy can reduce symptoms of acute and subacute low-back pain. [50] Regular activity and gentle stretching exercises is encouraged in uncomplicated back pain and is associated with better long-term outcomes.

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. Thoracic outlet syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Ice can be used to decrease inflammation of sore or injured muscles. Heat can also aid in relieving sore muscles by improving blood circulation to them. While the whole arm generally feels painful in TOS, some relief can be seen when ice or heat is intermittently applied to the thoracic region (collar bone, armpit, or shoulder blades).