When to Use Heat on An Injury
Sports injuries always happen. How to relieve the hurt caused by exercise or everyday activities? Ice or heat? Actually, both hot and cold pack therapy can be used in sports injuries. But how to decide to choose a cold pad or a heating pad for injury?
If it’s an acute injury or new injury, such as a sprain on the ankle, you may damage blood vessels, when blood vessels are damaged, swelling usually occurs. Then cold therapy is the correct choice. The ice or something cold like that causes the blood vessels to constrict, reducing the swelling.
“Heat therapy does the opposite of what cold therapy does. Unlike cold therapy’s ability to constrict blood vessels, heat allows for our blood vessels to expand and our muscles to relax. Applying heat creates a soothing effect,” says a physical therapist.
Then when can use heat therapy for sports injuries? From a sports injury perspective, after two or three weeks of acute pain, if you still felt pain, it indicates that the body has not fully healed, and pain reoccurs frequently. In such a situation, using a far infrared heating pad will help regenerate their cells faster, it helps them to get back on their feet quicker. This soothing effect occurs because heat causes the blood vessels to open wide (dilate). This brings more blood into the area to increase tissue elasticity and stimulate the healing of damaged tissues. It can also ease stiffness by making the tissues more supple, providing pain relief.
Best Heating Pad for Sports Injury
We’ve already known the benefit heat therapy can bring to sports injury. Let me know more about UTK far infrared heating pad.
Combining hot stone therapy, far infrared therapy, negative ions therapy, and photon light therapy, UTK's four most popular series of heating pads adopted different natural gemstones for your choice, which will meet different requirements. They are a jade heating pad, tourmaline heating pad, amethyst heating pad, and Photon light heating pad. All types of UTK heating pads are far infrared mats. Unlike the regular heating mat, which only heats the surface of the skin, UTK far infrared heating pad can emit far infrared rays when heated, which can penetrate deep into the tissue of the human body, like 2 to 6 inches deep, stimulating cells and tissue. It promotes micro-circulation between cells and reduces bacterial growth. The surrounding tissues receive increased available energy and it reduces tension in muscles and stress on your body.
If you are a sports enthusiast, get one and put it at home. Thus you can enjoy heat therapy anytime when you need it. If you are a sports injury and pain rehabilitation center owner, welcome to contact us about wholesale heating pad service to expand your business line and add thermal therapy to your current service, providing the amazing therapy that your competition doesn’t, which will make your business boosting.
UTK is engaged in a fast-growing healthy industry. Our vision is to make a healthy lifestyle accessible and affordable to everyone. UTK heating pad combines Hot Stone Therapy, Far Infrared Therapy, Negative Ions Therapy & Photon Light Therapy to reduce aching, inflamed muscles, and to relieve pain, which will give you a tremendous wellness-boosting experience.