Thermacare Thermacare

RELIEVE PAIN: TREAT PAIN WITHOUT ANY DRUGS WITH THERMACARE®

ThermaCare® helps with pain: Find out here what you can do about back, neck, joint or menstrual pain.

WHAT IS PAIN?

Pain is a general term that describes uncomfortable sensations in the body. It stems from activation of the nervous system. Everyone knows this unpleasant feeling. However, pain intensity and duration is different for everybody. Regardless, pain is limiting and just plain annoying. When a pain occurs, you want to get rid of it quickly.

At the same time, pain acts as a warning signal from the body. Pain directs one’s awareness to the part of the body that needs attention because a problem exists. Acute pain helps to detect physical complaints in time. It is pain with a clear cause (a specific disease or injury) and lasts a few days or weeks. Chronic pain, on the other hand, may be considered a disease state, may arise from psychological states, has no recognizable end-point and goes on for a long time.

HOW DOES MUSCLE PAIN ARISE?

Muscle pain gets on your nerves - in every sense.
Pain is triggered by physical, thermal or chemical stimuli that exceed the personal tolerance limit.

  • The body’s own pain receptors (nociceptors) are stimulated
  • The impulses are processed via the spinal cord and transmitted to the brain.
  • The more impulses arrive, the stronger the conscious perception of pain.

Pain impulses are not only transmitted from the spinal cord to the
brain, but are also processed in the form of reflex reactions:

  • An increasing number of pain impulses, for example due to a permanent bad posture and associated pain means an increasing reflex activity, which leads to a “cramping” of the skeletal muscle.
  • The cramped muscles get less blood supply and contribute to
    maintaining the painful state.

Heat therapy for pain relief

Heat therapy is the therapeutic application of heat to the body resulting in increased tissue temperature and pain relief. Heat therapy acts by: increasing tissue temperature, inducing muscle relaxation; increasing blood circulation, promoting tissue healing; decreasing the brain’s perception of pain.

How does the deep heat of ThermaCare® relieve pain?

ThermaCare® releases continuous heat locally at a constant and controlled temperature, which penetrates deep and acts at different levels to relieve pain: it increases deep tissue temperature inducing muscle relaxation and reducing muscle tone, thus increasing the range of motion; it induces blood flow increase and helps tissue recovery; it activates deep tissue-stimulating thermoreceptors which then inhibit nociceptive signals through the spinal cord and decrease the brain’s perception of pain.

  • ThermaCare has the following properties: the therapeutic temperature of the application of about 40 °C.
  • The heat acts constantly for 8 hours.
  • The warmth penetrates deep into the tense muscles and the
    painful tissue.

Frequently asked questions

TEST TIPS