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What Is The Best Microwave Heating Pad
With so many heating pad options on the market as well as DIY tutorials about making rice socks and other homemade versions of heating pads, which ones are the best? Find out as we list the good and the bad of different DIY and commercial microwavable heating pads, and tell you which heating pad out performs them all. -
What Do You Use Heating Pads For
If you experience stiffness, muscle cramping, or joint pain, heating pads can help reduce pain.
By increasing blood flow to constricted muscles, helping connective tissue loosen, and causing muscles to relax, heating pads are an easy, effective, affordable pain treatment option.
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When To Apply Heat or Cold
To determine when to ice or heat an injury depends if you want to constrict or dilate the blood vessels surrounding an injury or the source of pain. Generally speaking, icing an injury is recommended on the onset of an injury to reduce inflammation. Heating is best when cramping occurs due to constriction of blood vessels. -
Are DIY Rice Sock Heating Pads Safe to Microwave?
Put your socks in the sock drawer where they belong, and keep them OUT of the kitchen! Seriously, socks are for feet.
Heat up a Lavabag instead, and feel the long-lasting relief of your new best friend.
The design, material, and execution of this great idea are very nearly perfect! It's a sustainable, long-lasting, clean, odor-free, pleasantly weighted solution to the very old problem of sore muscles and period cramps.
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Top 10 Fillers for Microwavable Heating Pads
The best heating pads are those with fillers that can retain heat for long periods of time, are durable, comfortable, don't smell bad after repeated use, and are easy to find.
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