How to Use Treat Muscle Spasm In Your Neck or Low Back
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A Muscle spasm can happen at any time; A car accident, a quick unexpected sprint, a sudden turn of the neck or maybe a violent sneeze. Muscle spasm can occur in any muscle and is common in the lower back, neck, mid back, and shoulders. When you do experience a muscle spasm all you want to do is go back to the minute before when you had not pain at all. You just want the pain to go away sooner than later !
BioFreeze is a great topical gel that you can apply to areas of muscle spams or trigger points. Today I am going to talk about using BioFreeze for neck pain relief.
This squidoo lens is specifically for treating the neck and upper back area
BioFreeze is a great topical gel that you can apply to areas of muscle spams or trigger points. Today I am going to talk about using BioFreeze for neck pain relief.
This squidoo lens is specifically for treating the neck and upper back area
Table of Contents
- What Do you Need to Treat A Muscle Spasm:
- What is a Muscle spasm?
- Understanding hot and cold therapy
- Step By Step Instructions
- More things to remember:
- Ointments, Gels and Creams to Help with Muscle Spasm
- Other Pain Relief Lenses on Squidoo That you will Find informative:
- Check Out the Arc4life Lenses
- About Arc4life
- What Do You Do When you Have Muscle Spasms in Your neck or low back?
What Do you Need to Treat A Muscle Spasm:
- BioFreeze Natural Pain Relief Gel
- 6 x 20 Ice Pack**
- 1 towel
- 1 glove (non latex)
**You can get hot and cold packs in different sizes and shapes. Choose the hot and cold pack depending on what area you are treating:
For treatment of the lower back, use a larger ice pack- such as a 10x13. This rectangle shaped hot/cold pack can also be used in the midback or thoracic area. For the neck the 6x20 ice/heat pack works very well and provides coverage to the cervical paraspinals and the suboccipitals. For the neck and the shoulders, use the 9x16 ice pack because it provides great coverage to both areas. This trisectional hot and cold pack is a little heavier, so keep that in mind. For smaller areas such as knees, legs, elbows and arms, you can get smaller hot/cold packs such as 6x10 and 3x5. You can get hot/cold packs with and without a strap. Finally, check out arc4lfe's informative squidoo lens on hot and cold ice packs for in depth look at products for pain relief.
What is a Muscle spasm?
A Muscle spasm is a sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles
Understanding hot and cold therapy
Getting the Right Hot/Cold Pack is KEY
Step By Step Instructions
- 1Make sure your 6 x 20 ice pack has been in your freezer for at least 4 hours.
- 2Take your ice pack out of the freezer and wrap your ice pack in the towel
- 3Put one glove on and squeeze a small amount of biofreeze from the tube onto your finger.
- 4Apply to your neck. Start from the top of your neck in the back (just under your hairline in the back) and start to massage in small circular strokes. First do the right side, then the left side. From top to the base of the neck. Keep your head in a neutral position.
- 5After you have a massaged for about 1.5 minutes on each side, apply the ice pack that has been wrapped around the towel. Apply this ice pack right around your neck, allowing the ice pack to hang from your upper shoulders. Relax, sit (or lie down face down) lie down for 10-15 minutes.
More things to remember:
* It is a good idea to have someone else do this for you, but this is not always possible.
* Biofreeze is odorless, and greaseless but you don't want your fingers tingling afterwards. Wearing a glove will also save you a step from having to wash your hands (you can concentrate fully on your neck pain)
* It is a good idea to keep your ice pack in a seperate plastic bag so that it does not pick up the freezer smells. You want to get a 6 x 20 ice pack because this will fit nicely around your neck.
* Biofreeze is odorless, and greaseless but you don't want your fingers tingling afterwards. Wearing a glove will also save you a step from having to wash your hands (you can concentrate fully on your neck pain)
* It is a good idea to keep your ice pack in a seperate plastic bag so that it does not pick up the freezer smells. You want to get a 6 x 20 ice pack because this will fit nicely around your neck.
Ointments, Gels and Creams to Help with Muscle Spasm
Other Pain Relief Lenses on Squidoo That you will Find informative:
Check Out the Arc4life Lenses
About Arc4life
What Do You Do When you Have Muscle Spasms in Your neck or low back?
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Vallen
Jan 6, 2012 @ 1:17 pm | delete
- Very informative lens you have here. Ive been looking for this and glad that i was able to get hold of such info about handling muscles spasm. Thank you. pinnacle and metal toxicity
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