Thermotex™ is the natural approach to effective pain relief

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What does Infrared do?

Through the absorption of infrared thermal energy, tissues are safely and gently heated resulting in increased blood flow within the treated area. Your body’s natural response to this increased temperature is to maintain a condition of homeostasis—a balanced environment or state of equilibrium throughout the body. To do this, your body responds with an increase in blood flow to the treated area.
 

Comparisons with conventional heating pads

Equine studies have shown therapy applications with thermal energy penetration of up to 6 cm or 2.36 inches in just 20 minutes of use. Heating pads, which provide topical conductive heat, only penetrate 2 - 3 mm. Depth of penetration substantiated in a study done by Dr. Ronald J. Riegel entitled "Thermotex Therapy System Infrared heating pad versus conventional heating pad and hot towel." 

Thermotex™ infrared operates on the low setting at temperatures pivoting from44C, versus heating pads that are often in excess of 55C. Our products will not burn or dehydrate the skin when used as directed.
 

Pain medication therapy

Most pain medications simply disrupt the body's pain signals to the brain, masking the body's ability to recognize pain, rather than removing the source or cause of that pain. The effectiveness of Thermotex™ far infrared treatment in reducing and controlling your pain will in most cases allow you to reduce your pain medication intake. Thermotex™ provides effective, non-invasive, non-addictive pain relief with no adverse side effects.

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Cheryl O'Berg

"I had an opportunity to use a Thermotex™ device after I broke my leg. The doctor expected my cast to be on for 8 weeks and after 4 weeks I went for a check up. He did the X-rays and found that the cast could come off and that it had healed much quicker than he had anticipated. The Thermotex™ device virtually took the pain away after using it everyday on my leg. Works great!"- Results may not be typical.
 

Infrared Heat Therapeutic Health Effects

The following is summarized from Therapeutic Heat and Cold, 4^th Edition, ED. Justus F. Lehmann, M.D., Williams and Wilkins, Chapter 9 or concluded from the data therein.

Generally it is accepted that infrared heat produces the following desirable therapeutic effects:
 

1.  Infrared heat increases the extensibility of collagen tissues

• Tissues heated to 45 C and then stretched exhibit a non-elastic residual elongation of about 0.5 – 0.9% that persists after the stretch is removed which does not occur in these same tissues when stretched at normal tissue temperatures. Thus 20 stretching sessions can produce a 10 – 18% increase in length in tissues heated and stretched.
• This effect would be especially valuable in working with ligaments, joint capsules, tendons, fasciae, and synovium that have become scarred, thickened or contracted.
• Such stretching at 45 C caused much less weakening in stretched tissues for a given elongation than a similar elongation produces at normal tissue temperatures.
• The experiments cited clearly showed that low-force stretching can produce significant residual elongation when heat is applied together with stretching or range-of-motion exercises, which is also safer than stretching tissues at normal tissue temperatures.
• This safer stretching effect is crucial in properly training competitive athletes so as to minimize their "down" time from injuries.

2.  Infrared heat decreases joint stiffness directly

• There was a 20% decrease in stiffness at 45 C as compared with 33 C in rheumatoid finger joints, which correlated perfectly to both subjective and objective observation of stiffness.
• Any stiffened joint and thickened connective tissues should respond in a similar fashion.

3.  Infrared heatrelieves muscle spasms

• Muscle spasms have long been observed to be reduced through the use of heat, be they secondary to underlying skeletal, joint, or neuropathological conditions.
• This result is possibly produced by the combined effect of heat on both primary and secondary afferents from spindle cells and from its effects on Golgi tendon organs. The effects produced by each of these mechanisms demonstrated their peak effect within the therapeutic temperature range obtainable with radiant heat.

4.  Infrared heat produces pain relief

• Pain may be relieved via the reduction of attendant or secondary muscle spasms.
• Pain is also at times related to ischemia due to tension or spasm which can be improved by the hyperemia that heat-induced vasodilation produces, thus breaking the feedback loop, in which the ischemia leads to further spasm and then more pain.
• Heat has been shown to reduce pain sensation by direct action on both free-nerve endings in tissues and on peripheral nerves. In one dental study, repeated heat applications led finally to abolishment of the whole nerve response responsible for pain arising from dental pulp.
• Heat may both lead to increased endorphin production and a shutting down of the so-called "spinal gate" of Melzack and Wall, each of which can reduce pain.

5.  Infrared heatincreases blood flow

• Heating of one area of the body produces reflex-modulated vasodilations in distant-body area, even in the absence of a change in core body temperature; ie. heat one extremity and the contralateral extremity also dilates: heat a forearm and both lower extremities dilate; heat the front of the trunk and the hand dilates.
• Heating of muscles produces an increased blood flow level similar to that seen during exercise.
• Temperature elevation produces an increase in blood flow and dilation directly in capillaries, arterioles and venuies, probably through direct action on the smooth muscles. The release of bradykinin, released as a consequence of sweat-gland activity, also produces increased blood flow and vasodilation.
• Whole-body hyperthermia, with a consequent core temperature elevation, further induces vasodilation via a hypothalamic-induced decrease in sympathetic tone on the arteriovenous anastomoses. Vasodilation is also produced by axonal reflexes and by flexes that change vasomotor balance.

6.  Infrared heat assists in resolution of inflammatory infiltrates, edema and exudates

• The increased peripheral circulation provides the transport needed to help evacuate edema which can help end inflammation, decrease pain and help speed healing.

7.  More recently, Infrared heat has been used in cancer therapy. Read "Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment" from the National Cancer Institute.

• This is a new and experimental procedure.
• It shows great promise in some cases when used properly.
• American researchers favor careful monitoring of the tumor temperature; whereas, the successes reported in Japan make no mention of such precaution.
  
  FYI: Thermotex™ is NOT approved for cancer treatment by either U.S. FDA or Health Canada. For cancer treatment, please follow the advice provided to you by your personal physician.

Infrared healing is now becoming the leading edge in the care of soft tissue injuries to promote both relief in chronic and intractable "permanent" cases, and accelerated healing in newer injuries.

Localized infrared therapy using lamps tuned to the 2 – 25 micron waveband is used for the treatment and relief of pain by over 40 reputable Chinese Medical Institutes.

Researchers reported over 90% success in a summary of Chinese studies that assessed the effect of infrared therapy on: