| Cold therapy is an age-old method for treating | | | | order to avoid possible skin damage, stop icing |
| chronic pain and injuries. Cold therapy treats the | | | | once the skin is numb. There are many methods |
| affected area by slowing down the blood flow to | | | | for creating the proper ice for ice therapy, but |
| that area, which in turn, helps to reduce | | | | the easiest, most portable, and most effect |
| inflammation, muscle spasms, and pain. If you | | | | method is using a portable ice massager such as |
| have ever sprained an ankle or suffered a torn | | | | the Ice-Up massager. While regular ice cubes can |
| muscle, you know how much better a cold | | | | be used, larger pieces of ice are more effective |
| compress can make it feel. | | | | at covering the injured area and truly penetrating |
| Massage therapy, on the other hand, treats injury | | | | the tissue. However, large-enough pieces of ice |
| and helps to relax muscles by working on the | | | | can be hard to get at home, and are not easy to |
| tissue itself. Massage can help to relieve | | | | take with you. |
| psychological stress, improve the mood, manage | | | | Ice-Up massage therapy products can be taken |
| various levels of pain, relieve a migraine or sinus | | | | with you to sporting events to take care of |
| headache, and improve circulation. | | | | injuries and pain on the spot. The Ice-Up portable |
| When muscle strain is present, caused by a | | | | carrying cooler keeps the massager frozen for up |
| sports injury or some sort of accident, a | | | | to ten hours-- so you will be as ready to treat |
| combination of both cold therapy and massage | | | | injuries at the end of the game as you were at |
| can have a lot of benefits to minimizing pain and | | | | the beginning. Ice-Up can also be kept in the |
| discomfort. This treatment, called ice massage, | | | | freezer at home to make deep ice massage |
| adds the benefit of compression to regular cold | | | | available to you anytime. The ergonomic design is |
| therapy. This allows the cold therapy to penetrate | | | | insulated, making it comfortable use without |
| the muscle more deeply and effectively. Because | | | | freezing your fingers and can stay frozen for up |
| of this, ice massage therapy sessions are | | | | to ten hours. |
| normally only five to ten minutes, rather than the | | | | A portable ice massager such as Ice-Up, is a real |
| twenty minutes recommended for regular cold | | | | requirement to have on hand for anybody who |
| therapy. | | | | takes part in a lot of sporting activities--it is by |
| Ice massage should be applied to the injured area | | | | far one of the best ways to get pain relief right |
| (especially on ligament, tendon, and muscular | | | | after an injury. At first, ice massage patients will |
| injuries) with slow, circular strokes. The key is to | | | | complain of an uncomfortable chill, then a burning |
| start the ice massage as soon as possible after | | | | sensation, followed by an ache. In the end, they |
| an injury. Do not leave the ice directly on the skin | | | | feel total numbness and easing of pain. |
| but keep it moving or wrap it in a wet towel. In | | | | |